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What stems creativity?

Anyone and everyone can be creative but in most cases tough situations and problems lead us to actually tap into it. Most of us derive creativity from heartbreak and failure which in turn create masterpieces like the Marvel universe. I would be lying if I said it wasn't the same for me, yes my failure turned to rage and my heartbreak to helplessness made me start writing poems but besides the fact that I could write over 20 poems overthinking about it, there was hardly any that I could call a good read or one that I felt satisfied about, because at the end of it it was only my side of the story and a form a self pity to make myself feel better about it. But when I started to write after accepting my failure and heartbreak and allowed myself to experience growth and the feeling of being loved the right way I could write much more i.e. produce quality over quantity, it gave me a broader spectrum to explore, understand and to actually convey emotions without victimizing myself. Most o...

Doused in the damp atmosphere

As the Fengal cyclone struck chennai with heavy downpour, students overjoyed over a day off from their monotonous school schedules. Sitting in my hall looking out of the rather big window, I felt rather damp and depressed in the cold weather, as much as I enjoy the rain because to me it appears rather calming inspite of the fast blowing winds that could even blow a roof off if let be, I was left in a dilemma of what to do? Day offs in such a weather are far from the hyper productivity mode of mine its more like sleeping and day dreaming and getting nothing out of it. Hence, I sat there scrolling through my instagram for hours and hours, absolutely nothing productive achieved in the last 5 hours since I woke up. Now I had wanted to cook for quite a while, and so I thought, here emphasis on the "thought' ill make a cheese cake with a biscoff crumb base all I didnt have was cream cheese, so I thought ill go get it but again I didnt even make an effort to move and sat in the same ...