To see and experience as much and to capture them in words

I have always been careful with words and truth, most of my influencers value these two things so much, “rather love, than money, than fame, give me truth” Henry David Thoreau said. To me, they go hand in hand, after all isn’t it with words that we normally manipulate the truth? Thoreau came in later in my toil at living a life of truth. I pin it back to the day when my brother lied as I directed him - to our mother about our afternoon nap. To cut it short, he got punished while I was faultless and pardoned. I watched him take on the penance as I was physically at comfort. After that, I grew this uneasy feeling towards lying, this is not to say that I do not manipulate the truth, it’s just when I do, something ugly or funny happens. I call it instant karma. I didn’t notice I became more mindful of things that come out of my mouth and my written words. “We live in the word” said Elizabeth Alexander, my words shape my world. I have been both victim and victor to my words. I wri...

A few minutes ago a friend of mine tagged me in a Thought Catalog post about a perpetually single girl ... this is not an unusual discourse between me and my friends - different circles of them. Their wishes and dreams for me to have a boyfriend has been a staple in birthday and Christmas greetings. I am not complaining, I am one with them. But I guess I have become more at peace and stopped wondering why I still don't have a boyfriend. Don't get me wrong, it would be cool to have one. I feel that I just have to correct some of the generalizations we have about perpetually single girls, because even as we are one in this perpetual singlehood, we have our different takes on it... this is mine. The thing that thought that made me tick in the article is, "She just hasn’t found someone to make her heart skip a beat. She hasn’t found someone that fills her stomach with butterflies at the sight of them. She hasn’t found someone she misses before they’re even gone. Sh...