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Let Go, Let Flow

01 Jun

I got an invite to speak at a certain event called ‘Soul Food’ some time back. It was organized to edify and kinda feed the souls of the audience through poetry and other artistic stuff. It was during the Christmas season.

So I thought the best thing to tell someone who flunked all his new-year resolutions and didn’t achieve as much as he’ld have liked to would be to tell him how beautiful a book can be just by turning the next page. I wrote Let go, let flow.

In a shop or a market,

You could bargain; ask for more, pay for less.

Give reasons, make excuses.

And the lady behind the counter,

Just might let you have your way.

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What Are You Doing With The Prodigy In YOU?

18 May

Calculate your age right now, and subtract 12. Yeah, that’s how long you’ve been making excuses. Because ideally, by the age 12, you should have at least had a small brush with something that resonates with a chord from within you. You should have had an idea of something that will excite you as much as it did the first time even if you did it every day for the rest of your entire life!! And you should have started walking it from your dreams into reality.

Have you ever seen a movie character, or met a very successful middle-aged person who’s at the top of the corporate ladder but still wishes he’d gone to that soccer academy, or looked for a music producer a bit longer? At 50, he still longingly, lustfully, hungrily looks at that guitar hanging on the wall in his hall and wishes he could turn back the hands of time just so he could have been a bit braver. Each emerging rock-star reminds him of his youth in a sad way. The weight of his paycheck still doesn’t make up for a life that just could have been filled with so much adventure and fulfillment. He aborted an electrifying 6000volts life for a mere remote control-type-battery-powered one. I don’t wanna be him.

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Who’s Waiting For You?

06 May

I don’t know about you, but there are a couple of people I’m grateful to for all the value they’ve added to my life. I still remember Dr. George, who got me my first job as an asst. librarian at the CSIR library right after high school, and dozens of others after him. I believe in God, and his ability to use whoever he so pleases to be a blessing to whomever He so pleases, but by default I was waiting for each of these people-blessings to learn something new, become a better person, and appreciate something better.

Recently I had been waiting for you, yes YOU! I had been waiting for you to get internet access and visit goldinwords often, become a fan and comment on the stuff you like; you can’t imagine how much of a difference it makes! Because trust me, no matter how isolated you are, how noble and not-for-profit your project or work is, it’s 10 times easier when you have people patting your back and making you know that what you’re doing makes a difference in their lives, so that explains part of why your very existence is a blessing to me. There’s a graph that illustrates the traffic on the site, it lets me know how many people have been where, so anytime you get on this site, you make the next article easier to write, because I’m aware it’s dropping a thought, putting a smile, making a difference in a life- that’s motivation enough.

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