Inspiring yourself

I missed the morning sun today. I was awake, but was immersed in the laptop and mobile. Electronic products which consumes us though they give the pleasure and connections when required. A kind of addiction. How else am I to dispose my brooding thoughts which carve into my inner strength.

There are days when I have not left out of my cocoon, the shell, the home, wanting and waiting for someone to pull me out. It never happens. Mostly I have to pull myself. There are times, when I feel I chained my daughter along with me to this four walls by not sending her to summer camp in May. I get so tired if I take her out, since within minutes of walking, she would get tired, and then I would have to carry her till I reach back home. This invokes my inner mind to ask me, why not get a vehicle, to which I would answer it, “please convince my husband”, as an excuse. The problem is, even if I get a vehicle, I am not sure of myself that I would use it.

This reminds me of the sandwich maker. I love grilled sandwiches, where the bread gets browned with the ridges formed on the surface because of the grill. I was so sure that I needed one, and we finally brought it to our home. But now if I think back, I have done sandwiches only on countable occasions.

So back to the problem again. Her age is to hangout, while the hindrance is my nature. I am a rebel to everyone. I can’t resist questioning, and doesn’t follow blindly. It also makes me vulnerable, and innocently foolish when it comes to the decisions. I never gets the joke at times, and I keep expecting others to pay attention to me, when in reality it need not happen all time. Though I dream of being part of a girly gang, the conversations happens in my mind. The ideas and words rarely come out, and when it does, it would be something unwanted and foolish enough to be discarded. Along with the expectations comes the disappointments which can test my patience and irritability limit.

Isn’t this too personal to write about. Its pessimistic, but that’s the truth. This is what is clouding my actions. For many other people too. The question of ,”What will others think about me, if I do this?”. There are times, when I want to post in a Facebook group, or shout to the world, that I feel lonely, or feeling down, then I realize even if it brings help, ultimately I have to come out myself.
And there is the “What if”s. What if no one responded. Its a human tendency, which people are now aware of, to waive off the negativity and look at only the positive people. Would I respond to a stranger or acquaintance, as in a Facebook groups or twitter, when they post something like this?
Only close friends can ask what happened, but if they were real, I would not ever have asked the question itself.

The sun is now shining onto me. Strange how the elements of the universe, the sun and the moon bear witness to all of your thoughts and actions. A reminder that they can be your true friends if you accept them. The universal energy. Same as your inner strength of the soul.

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Free write prompt by Write Tribe

The unbearable truth.

The winter had set in, and the roads were filled with snow. The woollens were brought back from the suitcase which were hidden in the loft, all the summer months. There were three layers of clothing she wore today to school.

The teacher and other students were busy involved in the art class that was going on. She was supposed to paint with the brush, but couldn’t paint any more.

She realized that she could no longer hide the truth.
She went near the teacher and tugged at her sari, lifting up her little finger with the other hand silently.

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A-Z Challenge Reflection Post

Another monthly challenge is complete. Though unlike the blogathon in January, it was harder, but nevertheless complete.

Since I had a theme of Fiction Fragments, I tried not to write personal stuff and instead churn up more stories. If not a proper short story, I wanted to write some form of fiction infused with the personal thoughts which came across my mind. Of the 26 posts I had to do in April, the last week towards the end, I couldn’t come up with any story and rather had to rely on the “Thought Bubble” to speak for me. Though the theme was not mandatory for the challenge, I also cheated many times. There were days when I even had to back-date the posts.

Since there was an active Facebook group going, I had the chance to gain many blogger friends,by just interacting back or leaving comments on their blogs or sharing the posts, but I still couldn’t break out of my shell to do so. I have never been inclined to post comments for the sake of it, or to say the formal words “nice post”, “nicely written” etc. I was more interested in short fiction this month, to inspire my creative mind, and hence kept visiting blogs of Shailaja, Shipaa Garg, Leo, Ishithaa, Sreeja Praveen and Nabanita though I rarely had anything to say for commenting. Srilakshmi, Shailaja, Tulika, Suzy, Carol Graham, Aditi and Rajlakshmi kept commenting for support this month and I did enjoy their marriage advices and the jigsaw puzzles.

And it was due to this challenge which ruffled up the sparks in me to write “Anamika“, that I got published in Writer’s Ezine magazine. Though I have loved creating stories for the challenge, I realized the genes are not fully developed for writing. But since I got so many appreciation for the few fiction I wrote, my aim would be to improve the writing skills further. So back to more writing prompts from Write Tribe and Lillie McFerrin for inspirations…

Zipped up

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I did not had to look twice to confirm that it was her.
The bubbly flashy smile on the dark skinned round face with those big eyes was unmistakable. She was walking around in the mall with a lean dark-colored man carrying a young lad in his arms, without noticing my prying eyes.

The memories of good old days of hushed girlie giggles came flashing across my mind. And the fateful night, when she survived her act of sin in that small dingy clinic and our sighs of relief after the tense moments.
I wondered…
Did she remembered those days when she lost the zest for life.
Did the man who looked like her husband was aware of her past secrets.
Maybe not… Maybe yes. ..
But it didn’t mattered now..
Some secrets were just meant to be zipped up.

Yamini

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Yamini sat there, reading near the balcony window. It was a self-help book, which she had ordered online last week. In between, she looked out the window to replenish her eyes and free them from fatigue.

The breakfast had been done. Seethamma cleared the table and did the dishes quietly. It was the same job and same routine towards her same lady owner every single day.

The sun was harsh. The pigeons were struggling to find a resting place in some of the balconies.One of them flew to her balcony.

Yamini looked up suddenly and remembered. She wheeled her chair to the nearby table and scribbled on a piece of paper. The pigeon kept on flapping its wings to find her way out.
“Akka..Parvai..”

As she tied the string with the piece of paper onto the pigeon’s neck with Seethamma’s help, it struggled to get free, and few pecks landed on her hands.
And then she was set free..

“I hope I get some calls or mails this week..”
She told Seethamma with a fake smile, who went on caring both their hands to soothe the pecks they received.

eXperiments

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This week, we finally took a plunge.

An unpacked new OTG(Oven Toaster Grill) box is staring at me in the hall as I write this post. In most of the blogs I stumble across, I have seen many references to baking, as a skill or as a hobby. To pacify my creative side, I tend to do try such things at least once. So this week, the Google and Evernote will work harder to give me streamlined baking recipes. Though I have a sweet tooth, the main intention is to create one-pot dinners and snacks to save my time!!!

Since, this week also marks the end of the A to Z challenge, I am thinking of next set of experiments to keep my momentum. This would be the second blogathon I attempted this year, the first one being in January. And I realize “free-writing” is the genre I would really love to focus on this blog. And occasionally, the spread of 55-fictions and long descriptive stories. Yes, I could get hold of one category I love through these writing experiments.

Now, its been a long time, that I wanted to do a photography based challenge. From the time I had been active on Flickr after the photography classes, I had stumbled on many challenges on photography too. I am more inclined towards the phoneography, since its more practical with a toddler around, and with the plenty of instant effect/photo editing apps available in the store. But instead of the popular iPhone, it would be with a Nokia Lumia 520.

What say. which challenge are you gearing up next?