How long do we have? How many weeks more? I read Oliver Burkeman’s 4000 weeks when it came out in 2021, during the pandemic. Yes, from the time we are born and if we were to live till 80 we will have lived a little over 4000 weeks. I turned fifty that year and found that I only had 1500 weeks left. 4000 felt less … Continue reading Our Limitedness
On August 3rd to 5th (2018) 220 people took time off from their life just to relive… Yes REC Calicut (Now NIT) 1993 batch of 350 students.. more than 60% gathered after 25 years to celebrate their silver Jubilee. Over the past two weeks people have been dropping at the airports, train stations and bus stands in India. Some even came through the seas.. This … Continue reading When 220 friends took time from their life just to relive….
Meeting someone after a long time. First you start with a piece of memory. cut again into several pieces. each small piece for a person we both know. After gulping from some old poem, we share a song together. something the lyrics we had forgotten; but the tune still remains intact. Finally we bid farewell like the last page of a book that lets the … Continue reading Meeting a Friend – #29 of 365 Poems
We all have different ideas about who a friend is, or who we consider to be a friend. I am sure we also do not go to the dictionary to find it out. Because we all are very sure about what we know. Oxford Dictionary says a friend is “A person with whom one has a bond of mutual affection, typically one exclusive of sexual … Continue reading A Friend is someone who will show you the mirror without worrying if you will take offense
Siblings, connected by parents Cousins, connected by blood Friends, connected by fate Life made complete by all three Now years after knowing each one The difference seems so absurd They are all one and the same A shower when drought hits my life The sign of light when lost in the dark Every moment has their signature on it Continue reading Siblings, Cousins & Friends
Vinod Narayan 