That what makes you whole

You are going to have some good times

Along with the bad

It's only when you know sorrow

Can you learn to appreciate 

All that's good in your life

There will be times

When all the pieces will fall into place

And times when nothing goes your way

And time when nothing ever happens at all

You are going to experience 

Highs and lows 

Like a heartbeat that tells you 

That you're alive and kicking 

And not flatlining and dead

Embrace life and all that it has to offer you

The good times along with the bad

The happiness and the sad

You have to know heartache 

So as to learn to appreciate love

You've got to learn to accept others

In order to really accept yourself

Accept life, grab it and hold tight

Learn from it but never let it go

Let cover you, envelope you, embrace you

Absorb all that it has to give you

Live it to the fullest 

Never ever give up on it

You can't always be happy 

But happiness comes from a place within

Don't ever loose that place

Love and be loved

Accept to be accepted

Honour others giving them the respect

They deserve

Happiness and sadness

Joys and sorrows

Triumphs and failures 

These are all part of life

And that what makes life complete

That what makes you whole

Life: an Introspection

Life is what we make it, 

what we choose it to be. 

Our decisions and choices 

govern the path we take. 

Our experiences help it take shape

It can be a bitch

Cause that's the way we make it

It can be lonely 

If we choose to live that way

It's all in the choices we make

There's always a way out

You just need to know where to look

The way you treat life

Life will treat you back 

The same way and in kind

Holding expectations from life 

Leads to disappointments 

Leaves us alone and lonely

So it's not that life is lonely

It is we who choose to live a lonely life

Life has so much to offer

So much love and happiness

Just keep an open mind

Hold no expectations 

Accept what comes your way

Life can be an adventure 

If you choose to go on it

A journey of self-discovery

Of pleasant surprises

A realisation of who you are

What you can be

There will always be obstacles

But then what's life without 

A little challenges

There will be ups 

And there will be downs

It's what shows us 

That we are alive and kicking

Life is anything but boring

Unless that's what you choose to be

Life will bring you love

Life will bring you happiness

But we can't always be happy all the time

We got to know some sadness

To truly appreciate happiness

To truly appreciate life

Experience it from all aspects

Life will show you love

Make you feel loved

Like you never felt it before

There will be moments of heartbreaks

But don't give up on it

Give yourself space

Give the one you love space 

Truly appreciating and respecting 

What you have for each other 

Cause life gives you trails

But it also gives you strength 

Cause when it meant to be

It is meant to be and 

Life will give you all the glue

That you ever need 

That no one can tear you apart

Life is yours

Life what you make it

Embrace it.. love it... respect it 

The High School Experience

Been binge watch 13 Reasons Why since morning, so I guess this write up has something to do with it, inspired by it.

Being sick means you have some good time to yourself, to ponder and reflect on the direction your life is taking. Watching 13 Reasons Why kind of made me rewind back to school days.

High school can be a real bitch sometimes. You want to conform to a set of made up rules, be seen with and as the cool kids at school. It's all a popularity contest. Anything unique and you'll be seen as an outcast. 

Kids can be real cruel. They'll make fun at your imperfections, call you names and tease and poke fun at you. They can be unforgiving and relentless. Sometimes you eventually let these things get to you. You just want to run away from this bullying and teasing. Don't want to run into them. 

Thus you start wearing a mask, putting up a front to shield yourself from the things they throw at you. You don't want them to see the real you. You want to be seen as cool and popular, thus loosing sight of yourself. In order to be accepted you become somebody. You know one slight mistake will not be forgotten. 

You try and hang out with the cool kids, or at least hang around with them, so that you can seem to fit in. Do the things they do, no matter how wrong it may seem. Your every actions and every decisions is influenced by your friends, what would they do, what do they do and why you can't do the same? This is not peer pressure but conforming to a set type often going along with pranks that may not seem right. Thus loosing your identity and uniqueness.

And this doesn't stop here. It continues to follow us in college and our career. We butt kiss, suck up, hang around, socialise, all in the name of climbing up the social and career ladder. Once again loosing ourself, keeping our true self hidden. We are sure that if they get to know an aspect of us, people will never understand, cause that aspect doesn't conform to set principles. 

We turn our backs on people who really care about us, genuine friends and lovers, who love us for who we truly are and not what we put up. We just ignore them or turn them away, because we don't want to accept ourselves, to be ourselves, and we have difficulty in accepting them cause we do not accept ourselves and our lives. Thus making our lives empty and superficial.

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, is all about our need to be loved and accepted. To be admired by one and all. We put our lives out there for people to like, love and judge. For people to stalk and jerk off. It's our lives in the open. Again another way of trying to conform.

I am not too sure if things will ever change or if we could live our lives as who we truly are, open, proud and free. Not conforming to any standards and rules, not being bracketed in life. I really hope it comes soon.

P.S. 13 Reasons Why continues to show how bad our and backward Hindi shoes are.e