#writing

There are some things worth experiencing only once and that is love. Beyond the many stories to tell, your first won’t always be your last. You’ll keep creating stories as you keep loving. Stories to cry, rejoice, to feel like you’ve lived and died to be resurrected, that’s love. A million things...

Something Old:  A ruined shirt of his from 2014, displaying the faded surnames of those who stood beside him when he graduated. How did it end up in my stuff? The names of coworkers from an old job, collecting within the dusty, untouched corners of Facebook friend recommendations. 'Oh, we were fr...

I'm so excited. My 'Writer's Mind' is back after much time being gone or partially non-existent. I can day-dream about my novels again without my medicine altering my brain to make it not inclined to do so. I'm liking this different medicine - that in and of itself makes me happy, even if it's th...

I mentioned in my previous entry that I took off work for mental health reasons for a couple of months. I had another episode where I was hearing voices, thinking that people were talking about me and laughing at me at the grocery store and restaurants. My voices were starting up again, specifica...

Google defines the big word (procrastination) as the action of postponing or delaying something. It is the mind's way of stopping you from doing the work. i hope you can relate to what i am going to say. Procrastination is a trademark of writers. We tend to sit on our asses so much that sitting&h...

Today, when i woke up, i had no idea what the morning had in its back pocket. i kept trudging along thinking today as another usual day filled with writing, music, journaling, meditation and other stuff. Only the day had a surprise planned. i had taken a snooze on social media for a while. In&hel...

Recently i attended Jay Shetty's 2021 Reset: New Habits for a New Time on Facebook. The 5 days workshop had myriad of things to offer. On 2nd day, Jay shared 3 Cs to focus on - Coaching. Community. Consistency.  It is rather a parameter to determine the growth in your efforts. If one of the Cs is...

Hello everyone! This is my first journal/write-up on Open Diary and i have something nice to share. Yesterday morning, i was glued to my laptop for about 4 hours. In a single go. Writing. Exploring the internet space (that's how i discovered Open Diary and made an account shortly). Learning new t...