Author: Sayali Talvelkar

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Only love can hurt like this

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🎵Only love can hurt like this: I was listening to this song just now and just before that, I was at the brink of total darkness. Sometimes you wonder whether it’s worth it, if you have enough reasons to hold on to this world, to this life.

When I was hearing this song, with the same but such real, soul striking lyrics. It came over me, although not sure if I have enough but  I felt I am enough. No matter how hard it has been, how lonely it is, how cruel everything feels sometimes, I have been and am enough even so.

When I was listening to those lyrics, I realized that this life is a love story and I am the one who loves and I am the one who is loved. It does hurt when you love, but I am still worth being loved. It’s the hardest and the easiest thing I have done, that I do.

As I was listening to the song, I decided to hold on to this world , this life and continue this love story one more day.

Respecting Elders

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Relay race moves ahead.

The caves came first, then the huts

So the houses could be built

Taking the second step after the first is the only way forward.

The child is born and taught,

But if the teacher is good, the student becomes a greater teacher when they grow up.

The sign of progress is children discerning which of their parents footsteps to avoid.

The only way to respect our past and present elders, is to refine the definition of a ‘better world’ and then build it.