Saturday, March 29, 2014

When I was 16, I did not know what I wanted in life. What I did know is what I did not want. And my life has exactly been the reflection of WHAT I DID NOT WANT. Ironically, I fell in love with life when the undesirable happened.

The last few sentences were extremely confusing. Life is full of surprises and my life has been the true depiction of surprises. When I was 17, the future was unknown to me. Absolute faith in the present was what led me on. But as I grew up, worry for the future, eradication of uncertainties, search for stability and guaranteed security caught hold of me and for the next few years I was thinking like everyone else. 

So if now, life flashes before my eyes in one jiffy- what will I see? Just another regular Bangladeshi woman leading just another regular life. What was the point of living as a human then? 

My life won't be worth watching if I don't do anything about it. 

N.B: Gerard Arthur Way (born April 9, 1977) is an American musician and comic book writer who was the lead vocalist and co-founder of the band My Chemical Romance 
"The clearest actions come from truth, not obligation."

Monday, March 10, 2014

I am spellbound. By words, alphabets and their magic. The power of a string of words can shake the ground below or cause a storm in the sky of your mind. I am not sure how good I am with words but whenever I get a piece of blank paper, I cannot leave it blank. The blankness makes me shiver and empty, like the empty canvas of an artist who wants to draw. Only if I were an artist.
My first love encounter with words happened when I was 10- Heidi by Swiss author Johanna Spyri. It was a book with tough, tough English words but I fell in love with the story and discovered my love for fiction and of course, for the Swiss Alps. From then, words are all I had. 
Just waiting for the day when words will by my spells and I would be able to bewitch the world with this blissful sorcery. 

N.B: Dean Koontz is an American author more known for his suspense thrillers. A quote I liked by him:
"Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind."

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Move. That's something I haven't been doing much for the last few months. I remember the random rides in search of a river body around Dhaka. That actually led me to Mymensingh, somewhere I had never been before. 
Move. That's something I want to do. Something I think we all want to do. It's been too long that we found solace in the comfort zones of our stability and certainty. But how do we learn being confined in our own walls along with the walls our culture and society has imposed upon us?
Move. Let's just move. Let impulsiveness catapult us from our status quo into the unknown. And if the unknown is dangerous, that danger is a lesson that these walls would never teach us. 
Move. I am not being impractical. I am just thirsty for change. Let's move!