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There was a moment, between when I had picked up my luggage, and when I began looking for a cab, that I felt this sense of loss, this sadness. I had just returned from one of the four or so trips I need in a year to function. I was
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So my sister left yesterday. It was raining as I stood there in the midst of in the middle of blaring car horns, and dark skies. It rained later that day. This was Thursday. Today is Friday. It rained today as well. I’m not sure any of that detail
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I was away for most of this week. Among other things, what kept me busy, was the thought of self-hosting my blog. I was thinking, reading, and researching. As of now, all that I own is the domain name ‘sajalchoudhary.com’. The blog is hosted upon wordpress.com, the commercial
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It can be pretty damning, to promise something, and not follow up on it, just a day later. I did that, yesterday. But maybe, the promise was taking things a little too far. That was yesterday though. Today, is a new day, and today, I want to talk about what
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For a long time, I held this belief that I could not write each day. I could not get myself to sit in front of a computer, and type. I mean, there was no time. Having a day job meant, not having the time one has by default otherwise. Having
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There is this weird state that I am in, right now. I think, I have overdone, overstayed my welcome rest, respite, from writing, and everything else. I had managed to finish the first draft, a couple of weeks back. I wrote about it. It was after all an event quite
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If you asked me to describe the week that went by in a single word, I would say, ‘awesome’. But then, I use that word a little more often than oft needed. So, there’s that. But the week that went by, was pure joy for me, or rather, more
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I had thought of exactly three different ways to start this post, before ditching them all to go with this one, which now that I look back at it, is kind of not so awesome. In the last post, I talked of goals, about how they might have a possible
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Something happened yesterday. Something interesting. But before I tell you what that thing was.., like always, here’s a little back story. I was drained, as I got home yesterday. Most of the day was spent outside, at an amusement park, in the lovely company of my little sister, and
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When I had begun here originally, I had imagined this to be a place where I would talk mostly about writing, and then, as an add-on, a little bit of other stuff. I mean all you have to do is hover the mouse pointer over the blog menu, and you
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I’ve had muses.. now and before. I’ve had muses. That thing, which held my hand, And walked me through a story, Or a poem I wrote, later. That thing, which was actually A person. Or so I thought. But then the person left. My muse however, did not.
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I reached a milestone with my last post here. It was my fiftieth post on this blog, and I felt I had to write about that; to commensurate it. It is important after all, to celebrate the big, and the small. Fifty is not that big a number if you