Things to do when you’re bored.

1-Count things. Count anything. Count the number of pencils you own or the tiles on your floor or the number of days you’ve wasted. Courtesy:a friend whose tag line is ‘Counting gives me pleasure,yaar’.

2-Make lists. Look at me being all inception like. Idea of a list within a list.

3-Spend some time perfecting your other voice. You never know when you may need it. We’re talking about some serious undercover shit here.

4-Stalk your crush until you know everything related to their existence. Then memorize it. Then make a scrapbook. Then name yourself ‘overly obsessed stalker chic’. Make a meme. Become famous.

5-Stare at the wall making up stories about your future. After your Annie moment is over,assume role of a person who just gone done reading TFIOS. Because being as lazy you are,that dream is far from being reality.

6-Read a hundred buzzfeed articles at the end of which you will realize that the only thing that is different about your life is the fact that you have seen the latest version of ‘cutest puppy ever’.

7-Decide that you must have a hobby. You cannot possibly be so untalented right? Try to sketch or sing or dance or something. Conclude with receiving a complaint from your neighbors and go back to balancing things on your nose.

8-Watch old episodes of your favorite TV shows from the 90s and complain about how television today sucks. All while waiting for the new season of Game of Thrones.

9-Make theories of how your teachers turned out to be the way they are.

10-Make love to food. They don’t bite back.

11-Don’t know if you’ve heard of this but there’s thing called studying. Apparently it makes you smarter and actually helps. Try that. Take help from people who discovered this art a while ago.

Oblivion’s child.

I wondered why I was missing you. And I came to a conclusion. It was effortless. Being with you was easy. Life was a little less complicated with just one more thing sorted out. Oblivion is disappointing. On the other hand,certainty is always the more appealing option. You were my certainty. The one thing I could look back to and love without a second thought. And I miss the aura of ‘thereness’ when I was with you. I knew that every time I looked back I’d have you. And you’d have me. And that was easy.

As it turns out, after a while I didn’t want easy anymore. I wanted to be oblivion’s child. I wanted to be at its mercy. And that’s the path I chose.

The path that leads away from you.

My Labyrinth.

I’ve been fascinated with the word labyrinth ever since I read Looking for Alaska. Fact about words I like-I usually like them for how they sound. But this was different. So I pushed myself to be a little inquisitive about the origin of this word. So labyrinth basically means a maze. Only its not a maze. A labyrinth has only one way out. In ancient Greek mythology a labyrinth was built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur, a mythical creature that was half man and half bull at the center. It required tremendous efforts to get out of this maze.

Which brings me to my interpretation. Pain is our own personal labyrinth. The cause of our pain,our demon is in the center. We push ourselves away from it. We persevere to find a way out so that we can get on with our life. Some paths unfortunately lead us right back to it. The minute we think we’ve found freedom we find ourselves staring at our demon face to face. Now we have a choice. We can either give up and succumb to our demons wants or we can take no for an answer and try to look for another path.

The past year has been my year of getting out of the labyrinth. And I say,as senile as it sounds there is a little beauty in it. Not only do you get to know yourself a little better,you enjoy the fact that you have control over your demon. You can choose to move away from your demon. The walk through your labyrinth is a journey. A journey towards freedom. So enjoy it. The walls are there for a reason. The course is there for a reason. It’s to remind you that what lies on the outside is the rest of your life.