Youspired

Hurts, pains, secrets, whatever. They all have something in common at times, and that's that it's often uneasy to get over them. I for one can attest to that. It takes a great deal to embrace something that has you really deep. Be it a form of failure, disappointment, of even a heartbreak. Fact is, till you let yourself really feel the emotions, you can never truly heal. They say time heals. But trust me, if you spend that time running and hiding from your own emotions, you only succeed in building up walls and masking the truth from even yourself. Healing? Far from it. You more or less end up causing insane and unnecessary damage to yourself. I remember a couple of times growing up when I ran from my emotions. Actually, I ran from them a lot. If something didn't make sense, I just closed the chapter and promised myself never to open it up again. I would keep all those books with incomplete stories locked up within me for years.  But do you know what that did for me? Wel...

Having a conversation yesterday, I came to realise that I made a very fatal mistake . I assumed I knew someone simply because I felt since we are so close I by default know the person and we are more it less the same. I can't begin to explain how horribly wrong I was. It got me thinking how often we fail to actually know the people around us, and just go about assuming. Note that Every individual us exactly that- an individual. To go about placing people into neat little boxes is to defeat the whole essence of a world full of independent individuals from different walks of life pursuing different things. When it comes to background, I've learnt the hard way to never take it for granted. It's a very strong determining factor of someone's personality. But don't get me wrong. I am not in anyway implying that where a person comes from is who they must become. No. However, it does determine how they react to things in life. It's important to understand this ab...