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A Discarded Life

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                                                               The man walked with his back hunched and eyes squinting, struggling to pave his own path for himself; head protruding to the front, angled in an extremely uncomfortable position and with an inexplicably large gap between his legs trying to balance himself, as if his world had split open in the center and he was walking with his legs on each end of the world unable to leave either of them.                                                                    _  It was one of those cold and dry early mornings in the capital of India. Everything around was unclear, dense fog enveloped the city cag...

Carpe Diem: Living in the here and now

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                                          Life may seem pretty stressful at time, especially when you are a coming of age adult squished between relationships, goals, mental health, physical health, grades, interests, homework, the dog that chases you every time you get off a bus at the same spot, the expensive jeans you got stained, the things you did yesterday, the day before yesterday, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow and so continues the list but never ends. However the things we ignore, things that had made us happy for just a moment- like that one time the dog did not chase you, the time when you had the perfect grades, when you successfully played the tune on your guitar which you had been practicing for a week, the little kid who smiled at you when you helped him with the balloon that got stuck on the wind shield of a car- are the situations that go discreetly unnoticed as th...