Ananya

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After the Sparkle

Paris in the rain. There is a strange pain that comes from remembering something happily.-Khalil Gibran Play it before you read for better experience. “…we were staying in Paristo get away from your parents…”last weekend this song buzzed on my iPod,I stared at my abandoned blog, half-odd,ruminating on how little I’d post,then ruminating again, almost a ghost,as I write in real time, it strikes…

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Peripheral

I was always there, just never in focus. I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.–Robin Williams I remembered walking behind them,never beside them.I was never someone’s best friend,just the third friend.When the sidewalk narrowed,I was the one who stepped aside.Sometimes I pondered if I…

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For Sale Sign

I am not what I have done, I am what I have overcome. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”– Seneca Every morning, as dawn softly stirs,I rise to a world where silence blurs.The chill drapes the air, a wintry refrain,And frost weaves its art on my windowpane.Yet through the veil of the foggy embrace,The garden emerges almost whimsical,I linger, thinking how the entire home…

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The Chrysalis of Redemption

We are not defined by our past actions but by the steps we take towards redemption. Difficult roads often lead to beautiful destination.-Zig Ziglar In the heart of the dense forest, where the trees whispered secrets to the wind and shadows danced with the light filtering through the canopy, a figure darted between the ancient trunks, his breath ragged, heart pounding against his ribcage like a…

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21

I don’t love the drama, it loves me.-Taylor Swift I don't know how one should feel at 21's door,A plenitude of time has passed, that much is sure.It seems peculiar, almost mysterious,Every year, I have felt my delicateness, my sweetness, and grown more clueless.In these 20 years, With all my love and fears.I have stood on the gateway to my dreams,When my heart howls, my legs quiver, yet my heart…

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Home?

Dear 2023, thanks for so many lessons! You belong where you are loved. Cassandra Clare That's the thing about home,The book I left upside down,stays the same,It's 4 in the afternoon, I lay in bed-my dearest childhood teddy bear,Is now occasionally my pillow,Sunbeam dancing on the curtain,And then,Onto my face.That's the thing about home,sometimes, it makes you feel incomplete,Like a jigsaw…

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11:11

There’s love in holding. There’s love in letting go. Elizabeth Berg It's 11:11, I want to call youto tell you,that I have been thinking about you,It's all on me.It's really all on me.I've never felt this abashed,so empty, as if my heart is getting clasped from the inside.It strangles me, eats me,that I let you go,For you deserved some one better than me,I felt, at that moment,A cut above 'good…

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toxic

It’s not me, it’s you. You are not a rehab. It’s not your job to fix everyone. -Unknown Disclaimer: This is not a piece of revengeful writing, although it is based on real life experiences and I love to make content literally out of the good and the bad (xd). I submitted it in a contest whose theme was toxicity. Fun fact: this was actually supposed to be a song. You left me wondering what it…

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Baggage

I was born to tell stories. You will eventually learn that the kind of people you want to keep in your life isn’t the ones who hardly love because of their baggage. It’s the ones who love hard despite them. Shinjini Kumar(via ttt_official) The times when you feel, things are falling together, when in truth, they're falling apart. The unusual dilemma of setting boundaries, You question, If…

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It Only Happens in India

Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die. Bhima Rao Ambedkar India, oh my India, how are you so beautiful? your glass is already up to the brim With diversity and culture. Oh! they exclaim "Time is precious."  We say "Time is auspicious." Only land of whose glimpse, all men want, but, you are not a trifled…

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Never Want To

This is for being a good person, man. “I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” Oscar Wilde For they never cry, doesn't mean they never want to. Expressing is hard, Vulnerability is marred. Effeminate he is, unmanly he is 'Mask your emotions', the world says. 'Silence is strength' To falsify this, I can talk at length. 'Be a…

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Escape Or No Escape?

Escape Or No Escape?

flowers or ammunition People at war with themselves will always cause collateral damage in the lives of those around them. John Green They couldn't sleep, As another streak of bombs went reflecting through the window, And there it was A vast sound, a cry, A groan, Hid underground, praying for life, Every night, as they lay in broken divans*, When their hearts and mind were already at war. They…

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Go the extra mile. It's never crowded. ❤️ #photography #photooftheday #love #instagood #instagram #photo #nature #picoftheday #like #photographer #follow #beautiful #art #fashion #travel #bhfyp #photoshoot #likeforlikes #instadaily #naturephotography #model #me #smile #style #instalike #happy #likes #myself #followme #followforfollowback (at Shimla, Himachal Pradesh) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgrgkqGprAC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Just when the caterpillar thought her life was over, she began to fly. ❤️🦋 #photography #photooftheday #love #instagood #instagram #photo #nature #picoftheday #like #photographer #follow #beautiful #art #fashion #travel #bhfyp #photoshoot #likeforlikes #instadaily #naturephotography #model #me #smile #style #instalike #happy #likes #myself #followme #followforfollowback https://www.instagram.com/p/CgOiMRSpdaB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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I'm a paradox, a conflicted contradiction. If I can't, you can't too, understand me, never. Read my full poetry on Wordpress, link in bio. ❤️ #poetry #love #poetrycommunity #quotes #writersofinstagram #poem #poet #writer #instagram #poetsofinstagram #lovequotes #life #poems #quoteoftheday #art #quote #thoughts #writing #shayari #follow #inspirationalquotes #quotestagram #instagood #poetrylovers #bhfyp #writersofig #motivation #like #loveyourself #wordporn https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf7JguEh7a_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Sparks

maybe, yes. Strange how we decorate pain.Margaret Atwood It's 2 am , I'm not in love, Not even in friendship, Not under the influence of alcohol. While talking on the phone, I wanted to get rid of that contact Maybe for a while, Maybe for a lifetime. Disapproval thoughts makes me want to believe- they're not the right ones. My heart is screeching and mocking at me: "You didn't trust your…

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The place where it all started. The place where it was decided to part India into several parts, in 1947, unknown of the ramifications it will carry with itself. The building in itself is a marvel designed by Henry Irwin, being the first electrified building in the whole of Shimla with all the wiring concealed inside the building. Worldly-wise Irwin was to install water reservoirs for rain water harvesting under the lawn because of which visitors are not allowed to walk on the grass. An amazing waxed tipped fire fighting system filled with nitrogen, incase of fire and much more. This was all done in 1888. What a vision! 😯❤️ #photography #photooftheday #love #instagood #instagram #photo #nature #picoftheday #like #photographer #follow #beautiful #art #fashion #travel #bhfyp #photoshoot #likeforlikes #instadaily #naturephotography #model #me #smile #style #instalike #happy #likes #myself #followme #followforfollowback (at Indian Institute of Advanced Study) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfN4yS4JMyc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=