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Your past was the present; your present will be nothing but the past and your future is the present waiting to happen. This is time. What you accomplish and where you fail is bound by your own aspirations and governed by selfish expectations. Every fleeting moment is lost in planning for the one to be lost. Achievements are mere milestones providing an illusion of an elusive end.

They say life is a puzzle; the irony is the final picture is ever evolving. You entrust yourself to a set of actions and define it as your role, a role in the theatre with infinite options, each one ever more appealing. History is merely and always will be a story in the past, probably worth considering while one plans for his fleeting future.

Does any of this make sense, probably not and mostly all of it. It’s a state of mind and yes, it will change with time. As they say, time is beyond being.

A Solo

I have been recently asked, how do you live alone? I say, it takes getting used to. Ironically like any other living condition. I think my situation is the easiest to settle into, I am dealing with myself. It gets pretty interesting sometime. Men have various personalities residing in them which surface under different conditions. So, I don’t live alone. I live with myself.

My mind talks to me, my heart replies and a conversation brews over a coffee. Lyrics inspire and a good beat dances with me. Characters animate me, some force me into corners of the mind I fail to avoid, some take me to a journey into the past and some gleefully leave a smile. Like love, words have always been the soothing effect to a tumultuous battle with myself and dreams company me into the bright smiling morn.

So yes, for now I am a happy lone self walking the boulevard of life.

Togetherness... a bliss

Every relationship has its efforts, it has its compromises. Relationships give you stability, they give you responsibility. Fun is an integral part of every love life. Couples tend to forget that each have a set of expectations from the relationship. The two people care for each other and try hard to make things work for each other. Sometimes they try too hard.

One forgets the limitations the other may have and the other forgets the expectations. Communication is necessary and words need to be backed up by actions. Promises need to be kept, but love never asks for proof. It is human to be disappointed. Expectations bring agony. Dreams build hope. Disappointment is the derivative of failure from your partner and elation is the integration of their achievement. Satisfaction is subjective and happiness lacks objectivity.

Reason or rhyme, in that order, fail to make sense and togetherness is a given irrespective of bitterness. Intentions are always noble and caring is a given. The complexities of the feeling associated directly to the heart makes it only more confusing, compulsive and characteristic of the pangs and pleasures of being in love.