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You know what we could do?

It’s summer! You know what we could be doing instead of complaining about it? Taking a dip into the Arabian Sea.
But noooooo.

You’re delusional if you think the Arabian Sea is even close to clean; if you think that taking a dip in it isn’t going to make a superhero out of you because it’s equal to dousing in a toxin tank. It really is unfortunate that we don’t go to the beach as much as we could, like they do in practically every other country with a coastline. Ours is filthy, yes. And if there’s anything that could make you want to put on your cleaning gloves and mask on, is the dream of a future that involves beach shacks, live performances and twinkly lights on the shore.

Recently, Verova’s beach went through a serious detox. It witnessed the world’s largest beach clean up. 4000 tons of junk was cleaned up; a number not all of us can envision. So this article is a plea. A petition, if you’d like, to clean up the mess Gen X or Baby Boomers left us Millennials, so that we can have a legitimate Beach Culture.

Let’s list out some reasons we don’t go to the beach.

It’s dirty. It’s hot.

Now the real surprise is that, both of those things are in our hands. It’s in our hands to stop being messy idiots, and it’s in our hands to control carbon emissions, goddamnit. It IS possible to imagine a future that involves going on dates to the beach, eating food with your toes submerged in the sand. Who needs Goa? It really is about time we became more environmentally aware about the way we live our lives. Nothing, I mean nothing, is going to help us when we’re struggling for breathable air and drinkable water. It’s an unimaginable future if we continue like this. We all already know it.

So my point is, we can make a Miami out of Mumbai. Please, please let’s.

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Season 2 of my life is nearing it’s season finale.

And things tend to happen in the penultimate episode that prepare you for the finale episode; because finale’s are always so dramatic and loud and big, they’re meant to shake you. And then close that chapter to prepare you for the terrifying and exciting next season. 

Turns out, priorities change. People leave, or change. You find some gems, and then some pointless fakes. As fake as the Louis Vuitton on Colaba Causeway. Humanity in general disappoints, as usual. Humanity in general gives you hope, too.

Life seems to have a repititive pattern, and I feel less and less alone now; more and more strong.

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If not me, then who? If not now, then when?

Emma Watson 

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I knew the moment I made up my mind about this blog, that I wouldn’t keep at it and I wouldn’t work on it regularly. I knew I’d get to it only when I was seriously feeling it long ago. That is why I have never been able to maintain a diary.

I have grown up watching all my favourite tween characters from movies and books maintaining diaries where every thought, every detail was narrated effortlessly into a a diary. So precious. Diaries continued being a thing in pop culture around; personal diaries are always in fashion.

But I do maintain diaries. Journals, note pads, any thing will do as long as it holds beautiful papers that yearn for more beauty and irrevocably raw scribbles. I possess multiple such books which are filled with scribbles, illustrations of my dog, swear words, resentment, honesty, tears and breathlessness. 

This blog is an extension of what I put down in my pretty papers. This blog was supposed to be a structure, but that didn’t happen,

How can we maintain structures at all? I comfort myself by assuming that we can’t force structures as much as we try, they’ll form or break down on their own. There’s a lot we do to give direction to a structure but things tend to sort themselves out with me. I feel rather lucky that they do for me. 

I have now successfully lost the point of this piece of writing and I think it is has grown into whatever structure it was looking for anyway. 

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When you don’t know what to do - Breathe.

“There’s no better way to bring yourself into the present moment than to focus on your breathing. Because you’re placing your awareness on what’s happening right now, you propel yourself powerfully into the present moment. For many, focusing on the breath is the preferred method of orienting themselves to the now—not because the breath has some magical property, but because it’s always there with you.“

Drawn on the lovely @kayaanlovebug’s photo ❤️

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Idk

The best thing to do when you're feeling any kind of emotion more than usual, is to write. Write, something, anything. Because in that moment, it's driven by honesty, probably. Probably even dissolution. But more than anything it's raw. So in this moment I'm sitting in a train. And trying to write something. Writing on my phone really puts me down because it doesn't feel even half as cathartic as when I'm writing in my hand made paper notebooks. But I have no option. I can't let this moment pass. So I'm writing. The emotion I'm feeling more than usual right now is I don't know what it is. It's confusion. A little sadness. Some regret. Inspiration. Mostly confusion. It's not bad. I'm not sad. I'm not depressed. Or anxious. I'm anxious a lot. I'm scared a lot. I'm okay. Anxious and scared about talking to people. About talking about my ideas. I'm afraid and nervous about ordering food in front of other people. In front of my dog. I'm afraid of ordering food on the phone and talking to a stranger, afraid, of being judged. Yet, I try very hard to speak my mind. I stand for my values. I stand up against what I think is wrong. I'm vocal about big things. I'm shy about most other things. I'm shy. I'm okay. I also have dreams and aspirations. Of being independent. I want to be around people all the time. I don't want to talk to strangers. I want to make more friends. Most times I feel like what I write is incomplete. In a hurry to make sure the feeling is on paper, I think I end up letting it escape from my finger tips. It's unfinished. I don't know if I want to let you know that right now I'm feeling confused. Or sad. A bit regretful. Little inspired. Mainly confused. I don't know if I want to let go you know what I'm feeling. I don't now if i want to let you know anything at all. I'm happy. I want more. Human beings want more. But I'm happy Because I'm okay.

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Life Constants Pt. 1

-sippy cups -dog -bunny slippers -cuddles -nutella

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Ways to say ILY #3

Hey, let's buy matching sippy cups to have our tea out of.

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My precious.

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Ways to say ILY #2

After writing 7 shitty poems today, the 8th one turned out to be the best. It was about you.

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I'm out of handmade paper and it's killing me.

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Ways to say ILY #1

I love you more than pop music can convey.

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Velas Bitch 5.

We’ve somehow reached the point in our lives where our parents let us go for holidays with our friends ON OUR OWN but not without being constantly hounded about making sure we’ve put on adequate mosquito repellant creams at all times while living in a literal village.

Last Friday night three of my friends from college and I took a bus to Velas, a small village along the Konkan Coast in Maharashtra to attend the Velas Turtle Beach Festival- to basically watch baby olive ridley turtles make their way to the sea 🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We became friends with a little seven year old boy named Aaru who’s most favorite thing in the world was his pillow.

We spent way too much time on beaches and when we weren’t outside, we were passed out in the front yard made of dried cow dung in the house we were staying at.

Since we were staying in a village we had no signal at ALL so we did indeed survive two whole days without Internet and I believe we’ve achieved nirvana already by doing so. What’s more than surviving, I actually liked it. I liked that no one could call me, and that I couldn’t call anyone. I liked the peace of my phone never vibrating in my pocket. I liked the disconnect. I liked that I rarely used my phone at all. I guess my phone needed the break as much as I did.

We had serious pooping problems because squat shitting really isn’t our scene.

The stars there made me feel like we were literally in Interstellar or something. & & & we went for a walk at midnight and realised that it was bright enough for our shadows to form and for us to see everything clearly without street or flash lights!!! We realised we survived this trip only because we accepted how bloody brilliant nature was and wth were we doing resisting it all these years??? Is this what growing up feels like??? Appreciating things that aren’t technological????

Now we are nature loving kids slowly on our way to overcome our existential crisis with too many inside jokes on a mission to take as many badass photos of ourselves as we can.

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Calm occasionally has these fun pages which help you vent and feel productive. Like this page, you get to design your own island just because! Other pages you let you design your own tree house, your own tattoo; some pages make you jot down lists and so many more fun things to do!

This book has been so much fun to go through with! I’ve been feeling so pro active and inspired.

Calm has been such a joy!

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So I purchased a copy of Calm some days ago and it has been an absolutely wonderful experience.

Calm is a book which goes with an app of the same name. The app helps you meditate with ambient sounds and prepares a cycle for you. It’s convenience is highlighted. I was vary of it at first because I considered meditation to be seriously boring but Calm is just a 2 to 5 minute break in a day, not some horribly tedious and dull thing to get through.

The book is a sort of accessory to the app. It is designed to improve mindfulness. Calm takes you through sections like nature, sleep, travel, food, creativity and many more; there is no linear way of reading this book. You just pick it up and open any page you like and there’s something there that will help you vent, that will help you make the most of most things.

Calm puts together fun activities and guides you through dealing with your life. It doesn’t dictate a way of life but only acts as a push to achieving as much mental calm as you can everyday.

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I woke up from a nap feeling anxious today.

Because I don’t even know what I can or cannot do when I want to do everything and nothing.

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I got myself new pajamas yesterday to celebrate the end of submissions for all my college assignments this semester.

I got myself new pajamas yesterday because I can do with one more pair of comfort pants in life which have cutie tigers on them.

I just really love pajamas.