Pursuit of Heartbreak

It’s easy to pop a balloon, but not break the brick wall. My heart is now a conglomeration of bricks. With time, it got stronger and stronger and is getting more harder to break. But, I keep trying clinging on the rope of hope, creeping through subdued shadows, to break it someday.

Yeah, you heard it right. I am in pursuit of an intentional heartbreak. How will it open until it is not broken? Only when it breaks and aches, I believe there’ll be ways that let in rays for an alternative exploration.

Resilience

storm brews and roars thud

squall swirls with surging tenacity

still resilient tree

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Inspired by  Ronovan’s ‘Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt #325′ – storm and calm.

One-Liner Wednesday #13

Guttural Growls

Ignore guttural growls just like the growls of the gut that don’t stop irrespective of being empty or full.

Guttural: being or marked by utterance that is strange, unpleasant, or disagreeable.

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This is in response to the ‘One-Liner Wednesday Prompt’ by Linda G. Hill. The challenge is to write a motivational or funny one-liner inspired by the given picture.

Motivation doesn’t exist

There are people actuated by joy.
Few others are impelled by pain.
Discipline can drive; so can fears.

Many of us dream similar dreams.
Few who dream do it whatsoever.
Few others choose to focus elsewhere.

One-Liner Wednesday #12

Comparison Chart

Most often, kids are compared with their peers but kids never place their parents in any comparison chart with that juvenile wisdom of acknowledging one’s uniqueness, just like how a blooming flower never compares itself to its neighbour.

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This is in response to the ‘One-Liner Wednesday Prompt’ by Linda G. Hill. The challenge is to write a motivational or funny one-liner inspired by the given picture.

Stress

I remember a sentence that was shared by a professor, a few years back. He used to tell us interesting facts and historical stories every day for at least 10 minutes.

“I never said she stole my money”.

Now, try reading this statement stressing one word at a time.

➟ I never said she stole my money – Someone else could have said it.

➟ I never said she stole my money – I didn’t say that she stole.

➟ I never said she stole my money – I only implied it or witnessed it.

Rising Sun is a Lie

The first celestial lesson we take as a kid is that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. But in reality, is it not the rotation of the Earth that makes the Sun appear to rise in the East? The difference is so subtle. We’re just logically tricked.

We all get to know this truth as we grow up but still choose to believe the lie that sun rises and sets. Why? Because it’s comfortable. For years together, we’ve trained our brain that way and it’s wired to take the easy-to-believe route that doesn’t need too many explanations.

Lying has been perceived as a disgraceful social habit. So, most often, we don’t lie in public. But, we continue lying in many other circumstances to our own self without even realising it.

Loud – Six Word Story #19

It’s better to vent our emotions than dumping them to maintain good mental health.

— STRESS BUSTERS —

Laugh out loud!

Cry out loud!

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This is in response to ‘The Saturday Six Word Story Prompt’ by Shweta of ‘My Random Ramblings’. The prompt for this week is ‘Loud’.

Crescent and I

Her curve
My smile

Her craters
My scars

Her desolation
My loneliness

Her neighbours
My crowd

Clouded Thoughts

I ran to the moors chasing a rabbit. Thunder distracted me. I looked at the sky and stood there awestruck by the beauty of the mountains that were capped by dark clouds.

It started to drizzle. It felt good. I didn’t want to move. Hoping to spot a rainbow, I missed another rabbit, this time the one in the form of bubbled clouds, that crossed my path.

So is life. We chase our dreams and get stuck without working for them when there’s a distraction.

One-Liner Wednesday #8

Zig Zag

I can bet it’s not just success that takes us through zig zags of toils and tears before reaching the target, after having experienced the toils of Google Maps that takes us through zig zags and narrow lanes of up to 2km to reach a destination 200m away on a straight road!

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This is in response to the ‘One-Liner Wednesday Prompt’ by Linda G. Hill. The challenge is to write a motivational or funny one-liner inspired by the given picture.

Excuses

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. ”
– George Washington

Why do we make an excuse? Is that really bad?

Most often, it is. Every failure, every lost opportunity, brings in a growth retardant – self-doubt. When self-doubt enters our life, esp. when so much seems at stake, we start making excuses for two reasons:

➟ First, excuses make it easier to live with our failed expectations.

➟ Second, if we fail in a new trial, we already have a reason in hand.

The most common excuse which we come up with is the lack of time. We miss opportunities not because of lacking time but by misperceiving time. To support our arguments, the handiest tools are

One-Liner Wednesday #7

Stains of Pen & Sword

When one slashes hundreds with a sword in the battlefield and then sitting in the tent chooses to stain the pages through a pen that inks the lost blood, will the pen still be considered mightier?

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This is in response to the ‘One-Liner Wednesday Prompt’ by Linda G. Hill. The challenge is to write a motivational or funny one-liner inspired by ‘The last thing you bought’. The last item I purchased was a pen and a bottle of ink.

Ideal Inspiration Blogger Award

‘Crazy Nerds’ has been nominated for ‘Ideal Inspiration Blogger Award’. I extend my thanks to both the nominators – Princess and ikwords.

Princess runs the blog “The Mindful Modus”, focussing on self-care. She’s a structural design engineer, sharing practical self-care guides, skincare reviews, haikus on fragrances, and random posts on her lifestyle. Do check her blog.

A middle-school blogger, ikwords, is a word-nerd blogging on “Words on Key”. The blog is all about tiny tales, word challenges, book recommendations, and fantasies. If you’re someone who wants to read a variety of stories, don’t give it a miss.

About the award

‘Ideal Inspiration Blogger Award’ was introduced by Rising Star. In the creator’s own words,

Ideal Inspiration Blogger Award is a non-official Award to the bloggers as a reward of wonderful work on their blogs. It’s just as important because it really reflects the good impact we can have on other people’s lives. Awards are important for the inspiration, towards the success of our fellow bloggers and especially newbie’s to become future “Stars”.

Rules:

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1. Thank the person who has nominated you and provide a link back to his/her blog.
2. Answer their questions.
3. Nominate up to 9 other bloggers and ask them 5 new questions.
4. Notify the nominees through their blog by visiting and commenting on their blogs.
5. List the rules and display the “Ideal Inspiration Blogger Award” logo.
6. Provide the link to the award creator, as Rising Star from the blog “It’s all about Inspiration”.

Logo of Ideal Inspiration Blogger Award

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About The Blog:

‘Crazy Nerds’ is a two-author personal blog, started for fun, during college days. We share random stuff including fiction, poems, book reviews, picture tales, motivational stuff, and at times, life experiences. If you’re interested in knowing more, here’s the About section.

My answers to the questions from ‘The Mindful Modus’:

1. Which of your blog posts is your favorite?  
   

   Flattery

   Black Mystery

Copter #Origami

“I fly high and high, setting my own boundaries, always ready to help people in need and danger.

Indeed, there are many other peers far better than me in performance. But, I never demean my self-worth, even when I get tired of tedious journeys.

One-Liner Wednesday #4

Compassionate Revenge

That feeling when you grow manifold and treat people in an exceptional way is the best revenge to the same people who treated you as an exception.

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This is in response to the ‘One-Liner Wednesday Prompt’ by Linda G. Hill. The challenge is to write a motivational or funny one-liner inspired by the given picture.

Scented Intents

Blue haired fairy
flew away far,
transferring charges
to the green-eyed.

She cast spells
to de-ice lands,
making hearts sing
the blooms of spring!

Seeds of hope
and euphonious music,
spreading joy in the air
awakened sleepy souls.

Photo for the prompt (from scvincent.com)

Abode

Her mind was spinning,
so fast, like a broken
directionless compass.

She came from a land of hills
from a place so high
with definite height.

Hills grow in inches
or slide a little,
but it was certain.

She’s uncertain, now onshore,

One-Liner Wednesday #2

Visual Baits

Not everyone who appreciates your beauty in the light of attention grabbing colours knows your toils in the dark.

Photo for the prompt (from lindaghill.com)

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This is in response to the ‘One-Liner Wednesday Prompt’ by Linda G. Hill. The challenge is to write a motivational or funny one-liner inspired by the given picture.

Dreams

I dream and dream,
through day and night,
like it’s my only errand.

With the rise of dawn,
dreams cheer me up
for an endurance test.

During the day,
they give me hope
and sustain me alive.

I keep following my dreams
forgetting the surroundings,
yet observing them keenly.