Philosophical Much

A couple of days ago, I mustered up the courage to try out something new on my own. After weeks of making plans with friends, I was the only one left interested in the event and decided to attend what was called “Spoken Fest 2017”. The introduction to the event left me intrigued, it was going to be a lot of known and new faces ready to take on an audience with the power of their words. The concept was quite new to me, so I was obviously a bit skeptical about spending time and money, but I decided to give it a shot anyway, after all, you don’t get to listen to Zakir Khan poetry every day, even if its for a short while. The two day festival featured a host of artists ready to mesmerize the audience with their spell binding literature, some with music and some with the simple power of pure voice. What might seem a bit boring to some people, was apparently food for the soul for quite a humongous audience. As soon as I entered the huge gates of the place booked for the event, I was ...

Last night, as I was going through some random web browsing and basking in the intellect of other people's knowledge, I heard them again, the raindrops, they were bashing against the earth, as if charging towards the ground with all their might, but losing their will to fight right before the final blow. If you have seen those couples fight which have just entered a relationship, you will realize that they build up a lot of anger in themselves a lot of times, but by the time it all comes out, they understand that they can't afford to lose the person in front of them, Just as they are about to get into a massive fight, one of them will calm down as the other will stand in front with a calm face. Although this time, I think the earth has had quite a few such fights with the rains. It's already October, they need to get their crap together. We are all set to wait for some winter already. I am not normally a winter loving person, but the continuous rains don't help mu...