Faith.

What does one do, when you can't see your future ? Just a haze of white fog with no visible path to follow.
What does one do, when you see many broken relationships but fail to see the few that have found eternal love.
What does one do, when you lose a loved one, only because you were too scared to even accept their existence.
What does one do, when you know that you're bringing sorrow and disappointment into somebody's life even though that was never your intention ?

Stuck in a rut, embedded in your own thoughts filled with nothing but regret of the past. That is when you need it. More than you ever will. Faith.

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

-Voltaire

Ode.

After my recent trip to Western Australia and visiting all the amazing hot spots around the state, one of them clearly stood out. A small but awe-inspiring beach called 'Bunker Bay' in Margret river, had left me amazed. Everything at that moment felt magical, and I knew right then, that it had left me with a moment I will always be able to recollect & relive. So I pulled my phone out and fed my thoughts into words. That's when it came together, my very first ode.

"With the sand in my feet, the wind in my hair,
With the sound of gushing waves in the air,
The smell of the ocean, and with love to share,
The moment felt complete... with a life time to spare."

It's always darkest before the dawn

Florence + The Machine - Shake it out

And given half the chance would I take any of it back
It's a fine romance but its left me so undone
It's always darkest before the dawn..

Eternal Love

Sitting in the library by the window on this rainy Wednesday afternoon, I have the widest grin on my face. The reason to this smile is a very old couple. As I sat watching the rain and thinking about examples for scope management projects (an exam due tomorrow), I see an old lady step out of her car from the drivers seat. She opens her umbrella and carefully runs along to the passenger seat of her car. She reaches out her empty hand and a considerably older man slowly steps out, holding on to her shoulder. She wraps her arm around him tugging him closer so that they both fit under her umbrella. She then slowly guides him to the front door of the library. A sudden gush of wind and she loses grip of her umbrella, making them both slightly wet. Once inside, the old man gives out a big laugh looking at their situation and then the sweetest thing happened. He looked at her with kind loving eyes, wiped her moist forehead and bent down to give her a kiss.

Such a small gesture of love, and it changed my mind about something I've always doubted. I am now sure that there is something called 'Eternal Love'.

"Safely in each other's arms, 

to bid the rest of time.

Finding Eternal Love

so many seek to find."

PS: With that, I'm now having trouble thinking about Scope Management examples. 

Waiting.

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering."

Paulo Coelho

How old is your soul ?

On a rainy sunday evening, watching a young woman curled up leaning against the window on a train, a distant look in her eyes fading far far away, her hands intertwined within her jacket to warm her slender body, her eyes gloomy and moist, her face having a million questions.. and with the same face, she looks at me, running her emotion through me.. and I think to myself - 'How old is your soul?'

Sometimes we age more than our years and its because of what life teaches us. Despite what we are capable of withstanding,  despite being vulnerable and despite being heart broken, its what life gives you.. and its what makes us forget the child within us. 

So... how old is your soul ?

Count on me too!

"And I can think 

Of nothing in life 

That I could more wisely do,

Than know a friend,

And be a friend, 

And love a friend... like you."

They say that you can judge a person by the kind of friends they have. Frankly, I don't deserve that sort of a compliment. Because my best buds not only are the best people I will ever know, but are also the ones that make me who I am.

For all the times you've made me laugh, for the times you've kept my secrets, for the times you've never judged me, for the warmest hugs, for teaching me to let go, for inspiring me, for reminding me that life is too short to regret anything, for being there for me every single time, for being my family, for all the long pointless conversations, for understanding how I felt even when I dint, for being patient with me, for whacking me when I am wrong, for loving me despite my flaws..... for letting me be me.

And there is just one thing I hope you do,
Just the way I do, I hope you count on me too.

Happy Valentines Day! I Love You <3