Grey Shades

This post is dedicated to all my very dear friends for being in my life and making the ride absolutely worthwhile. And to all my ex-friends for the show-and-tell bumps and twists which helped me value true friends so much more. There is a saying that goes – Do not burn bridges behind you for you don't know when you may need to use them again. But somehow I haven’t been always able to adhere to it. I can be quite unforgiving about the lies and betrayals “friends” have done to me. I give them second chances, and a third. But when I am repeatedly being lied to and betrayed again and again, that is the time I have to decide – to let go. (Image Source: Google) Yes it is hard… Hard, when situations like these come up… when the person you trusted with a secret goes around spreading it, a person with whom you shared you biggest fear makes fun of you for it, when that person simply cleans up the corner of the heart where you thought you lived, without thinking about your feelings,...

When I was in school, we had the school assembly every Monday and Friday. The entire school assembled on the ground in neat rows, wearing full uniform (uniform + white socks + black shoes). The prayer would be sung by the group that sang the prayer everyday. Each week, a student from a different class gave the thought-for-the-day, someone from the same class read the newspaper headlines. The HM/teachers would make some important announcements and then everyone dispersed to their respective classes. It was one such dreadful assembly that had me red with embarrassment in front of the whole school. That week it was our class which had to give the thought and read the news headlines. Someone had already prepared the thought, and the person who was supposed to read the newspaper was absent. It was chaos in the class as another girl and I went around the class asking everyone if they would read the headlines. We got various excuses - “I did last time” “I am doing next time” “I am not d...

I caught this group taking bath on a neighboring terrace. Look who’s bathing ;) PS: This neighbor of ours has a very bad habit of leaving the water tank overflowing. Although he got quite a few curses from us, it must all have been overridden by the blessings of these creatures ;)