Conundrums.

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It might just all be a fantasy, stupid hope. (But) I still manage to believe. It keeps me ahead of the game. I try. It might not be much but its keeps the ball in my court.
Oh hey, I'm Karthik. 18, a fresher.
Currently, my tents pitched in a desert. Dubai, to be more precise. (It's just a saying. I don't live in the desert..yeah.)

All of us tend to sulk at endings, yet none of us see that an ending is the only possible solution to a new beginning. Yet, at the beginning, none of us are ever prepared or ever see or ever really predict, that there is always an ending.
Just a thing I believe in. I mean you tell me, what comes first the chicken or the egg? Day or night? A beginning or an end?

We'll never know, we just have to settle with the dilemma. This little area, where we all settle in between, I call grey. Tumblr's my grey. I'm just another inbetweener.

Her

san898:

She couldn’t bare it anymore. She tried to resist it, clinging on to that single ray of hope; but even that was engulfed by the imminent darkness of that never-ending night, as she sank further into her despair.

She couldn’t stop him.

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officially spell bound. bloody amazing.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it’s our job to invent something better.

Chuck Palahniuk, Choke (via leritas)

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I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people—Americans and Europeans—come back and go, ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on.

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The Airplane

He gazed beyond the outlying city at the dawning blue gradient of the early morning sky. His thoughts, his eyes, his ears, fixated upon the developing circular light that distinguished itself from the cerulean atmosphere around.

Everything else seemed irrelevant. The gradual fading creaks of the midnight crickets as a rooster’s cock-a-doodle doo and sparrows chirps overpowered; greeting the light, bidding farewell to the dark – The suburban desert while the sand fluttered at the gentle soothing daybreak breeze -(slightly further along) the urban jungle towering above all stood sinisterly still as if a ticking time bomb. A few minutes to the destruction of the liberating silence – a few minutes to the explosion of wild crowds, rapidly swung briefcases and the rumbling of traffic. However he was deaf to the sounds, blurred to the sights - All utterly and absolutely irrelevant.

The circular light grew closer, the sky illuminated further.

Now closer, and lower. Closer. Lower. Bigger.

The object began to shape, a marvelous illusion of metamorphosis.  A dome, the blunt top pointed towards him, appeared out of the blue - the circular lights which by now had divided into two, one on either side – eventually the floating dome extended – then on either side of this marvel appeared narrowing outward protrusions – wings made of pure steel.  Finally the airplane revealed itself.

Then there was noise – familiar noise. Nights he used to lay there at this nuisance of reverberation, completely unsupportive to the inconsistent night sweats and the erratic patterns of insomnia. However, at this dawn the noise seemed ever so welcoming. 

Today the long wait was about to conclude. At the break of this sunrise, she would have finally arrived. A downpour of excitement within made him shiver, the hair on his arms erect as ever – as the magnificent object hovered towards and over his two storey house. The plane had exposed its true dimensions now, the sound bizarre and ear-wrecking . It did not affect him, not today it would not.

His neck stretched backwards, his toes tipped as the object strayed just above him. It felt so close that he chuckled at the absurd thought of stretching his hands and clutching on to bottom four wheels that had just unfastened in preparation for touchdown on the runway sited about 4 miles from his house. He had the need to wave, however his mind reinstated maturity and prevented him from doing so.

He wondered if only he was capable to sprint to his roof - jump the aircraft - get on board - tug her off her seat - and just hold her again close to his chest as her hair brushes his eyes making him flinch temporarily but as usual never risking letting go. He began to wish the impossible – but that is just what love makes one do, is it not?

For all he knows this probably was not the flight she was on, however the hope of her just returning soon enough into that space between both his extended out arms – that space which has been deserted for long enough, his dried out lips where her moist ones fit perfectly – perhaps the easiest two pieces to the finale of a jigsaw whose completion was well overdue.

He leapt in joy, a smile from ear to ear, that radiance on his face so visible and bright that even the well lit sky was not suffice competition. He continued, hoping, wishing, trembling – overwhelmed with content, excitement, nervousness – his palms began to sweat while gripped tightly around his blackberry waiting for the slightest hint of vibration. The tremor within his clenched fist would be the signal which gives him the ready, set and go – that awaited outlet of all these enclosed and trapped emotions.

“It shan’t be too long now” He murmurs.

Then he notices once again that well-known ray of circular beam breaking through the distant blue horizon. Here we go again. 

A Cloudy Sky (masterful!)

mikemeijer:

His phone rings.
The melody that plays strikes him with the dispassionate cruelty that only unrequited love posesses.

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MAY THE 4th BE WITH YOU

I’ve just experienced a very remarkable feeling. It is one of those epiphanies you get, after you let go of something and then you don’t quite realize how much you’ve missed it until you have it  back within your grasp. 

Oh chocolate milk! you sweet miracle of all dairy products.

You would like to live a life where there is no suffering, but that life is not possible if you continuously carry the ego with you. You cannot make a life around you so that suffering disappears. If you carry the ego, again and again you will bump into some reality which will hurt the unreal. Whenever there is an encounter between reality and unreality, the unreal causes suffering.

Osho (via quotes2enrich)

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