Daily Diary

October 29th and 30th

Dear Diary,

We always complain about how things are not working out for us without paying attention to the things that are. Sometimes, the universe deprives us of certain things because we are not yet ready to have or manage them. And other times, because we are ungrateful. If you can’t find pleasure and satisfaction in the little workings of your present life, how then would you handle the future larger gains? So we need to be more appreciative of the air we breathe and the people we meet — the food we eat and the water we drink. The present isn’t half as bad as we make it out to be.

Mistakes are a part of every person’s path and the biggest mistake would be not to accept your mistakes and correct them. For it is commonly said that once bitten, twice shy and it is this shyness in the face of future impediments that makes us know that we learnt our lessons. Life always has lessons for us in every situation — we are often too noisy or too distracted to pay attention and learn accordingly. In the midst of every other plan or rejection or deception, the one fundamental truth we should all know is that life happens — and so, what is, might not be and what was might be or what might was or will be.

CHRONICLE 29

I’m out of shallow waters

My head can breathe

Though my arms didn’t swim

I have no shame in saying

That she rescued me.

CHRONICLE 30

My tribesmen came to me

Asking “When will you marry?”

And in frustration they said

“Love hasn’t found you yet”

Oh no, love did find me

I beg to disagree

I just couldn’t keep it

So it had to flee.

Dear Diary, keep my thoughts as secret as news can be…