Sweet Dreams

Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep.

Away from the window, the truth,

The love, the faith, the people.

Watch those sheep jumping, pumping, hurtling rhythmically to the end of the screen and back again.

Count them so you forget the past,

The tormentors, the dictators,

The freedom seekers, the truth lovers.

Let our reality be the one you live,

Let our truth be all you see.

Sleep my baby.

Sweet dreams!

The Dawning Of A New Day

From being an addict to a neat sober life, from being a couch potato to burning my muscles again, from losing my job to regaining one in one of the largest MNCs in India, having to plan for an overhauled life when there’s none left in my soul. I’m fighting  each day and every hour of my existence, for revival of my body and soul. I’m living better, I’m eating better. Striving to host a chapter that powers me to dream of happiness, completeness, an error free foray into being who I want to be. I’m dying to see if I’ve learnt from my mistakes. It’s history repeating itself to test me, break me, shake me, wake me up from my slumber. For the past few months, change has been the only constant.
My attitude has changed. Never once did I think of running away even while perfectly knowing the agony each phase brings with it. For the first time I’m ready to give life a chance to come to me. For the first time I’m giving myself a chance to roll with whatever life dishes out, to fly with the wind, even snowball. Never once did I say “NOW WHAT?”.
In December, they told us to start looking elsewhere for a job for the project here had ended but they’d try to absorb us in. In January they hinted they won’t absorb us for the sake of well-being of both the company and my career. I thought it was a very valid and wise move. I have way too much experience to get absorbed in a team where people of nearly half my experience would work above me only because I didn’t have hands on their technology.
To me though, it gave a chance to get out into the world and to see if I’m any better than the man who joined this company nearly 5 years ago, to test my skills, to gauge my self-worth, yet again. For some adventurous reason, I rather relished this challenge and instantly knew I had to leave for my betterment. Both, the company and I, had realized that moving on was the better option for each of us.
This is the new, aged me. The earlier, the younger me would have tried busting their balls for having sacked me, for I had way to much ego. I’m learning to think past my ego and think of all the betterment that any opportunity brings. I’m letting people stay themselves around me. In short I’m trying and giving up my inner force that made me change people around me. I’m letting them come to me. I’m letting life engulf me in its arms. I’m not afraid of leap-of-faiths anymore. I’m running full seasons, gaining new leaves while shedding the useless and old ones.
Moving to a new city offers me an opportunity to start from scratch again. Not only will it give me a chance to meet new people, it’ll also give my wife a chance to settle down at a place that she knows and loves. We’d together forget the horrors we faced in Delhi. This time we are wiser, capable of paying our bills from day one and free of all debt. Oh yeah I forgot to tell you all, I’m finally free from all debts and it is so relieving. 😀
I’m so passed my past now. While I waited for my offer from my new employer, life also threw me a chance to get even with my past. A chance to understand that I was never wrong, for all I’d done was lose a battle of love. I now know what happened, had culminated to a better today and an even better tomorrow.
This waiting period also threw me a chance to get out of this country for a while and land in a place that has forever intrigued me – United States of America. I got to witness the miracle of a new-born baby. I’m so happy for you brother! I got to see a culture far advanced than ours. A thinking not swallowed by petty religion & caste. The ability to talk to and smile at strangers. I got to see the affluent middle class that’s provided for by the government in ways Indians are still dreaming about. We are so unwilling to learn. I got to see the real order, not the one borne by chaos. I got to see a willingness to accept laws and a hesitation to break them for it may harm another human being. I got to drink better hazelnut frappes. I inhaled fresh clean air in the middle of the town, oh how much I miss it back here!
Future is about smart choices, about creating better opportunities, and working hard to bring them to fruition. It’s about learning to adapt and curb your instincts to see past your preferred options and your preparation to dive into a better realm that provides foundations for better plans and people & resources to execute them . I can finally back myself to think positive and not worry about failures for I’ll never miss a chance to learn and grow and become the man who dictates the wellbeing of his loved ones. I grow!

No Pain No Gain

This is where I stalled. The best I can describe my absence with, is I’ve been on a journey for a while. A journey to self-destruction and resurrection. A journey to see my ends. A journey to know the truth and self-worth, to live a tale worth telling. And it has come at a price. I’m lost. I’ve lost.

The burden of responsibility now forbids my senses to feel again, see again, hear again, think again. I fail to see how I got here. All that I am is truth. This is all I can be and yet I fail myself and others. The pain of understanding the world and people around me has got the worse of me. It’s becoming difficult to embrace myself for who I am. Because it’s dark. I’ve seen it. Something that’ll swallow me whole. I can feel things building inside me and they are a lot of weight to carry. The days are heavier and nights are sullen. I’m a ticking time bomb and time is close when I’ll explode. An explosion that will blow up their happiness to pieces and no one, not even me, knows what that’ll do to KING “ME”.

The ingredients of goodness inside me are depleting fast. I’ve got to come out. For inside me is burning anger. Case in point are these sudden urges to beat myself up. These urges occur when I’m happy about something specific or when I’ve sated myself. It’s not uncommon for me to feel bliss in pain but earlier, these feelings had a time and place. Not now. They just take over me and then possess me for days and days.

I’m different these days – angrier, surprisingly vociferous and scornful. I’ve always been different. My interests were different. I enjoyed pain and this is something I’m particularly proud of. I intentionally venture into the darker side when I’m aware of joys in brightness. But this tendency is at it’s peak now. I’ve started keeping myself on the edge. I break into moods I’m very unaware of. Life has become a game of hide and seek. Seeking while I’m hiding, in plain sight, yet creating thunders for myself and enjoying them.

I’m trying to find the psychology behind my actions that sometimes seem downright foolish. I’m forgetting more, trying to remember less and yet my dreams play out the drama for me, every night. Libation seems fruitless. So I tried exercising, trying to burn out all my excess energy, so I can remain calmer. It worked for a while, while the pain persisted. Once that went, so did the workouts. And now I’m free again with all that unburnt energy and no pain. It’s all like Forrest Gump. I do things without knowing why I’m doing them. Like these orders were etched inside my brain to be carried out now.

The song above describes me aptly. King Me – try looking for it’s meaning and you’ll get a number of absurd and pervasive results. I have my version too and it goes something like this – It’s a state of a narcissistic mind. One that’s trying to indulge for itself. It’s keeping yourself so high and untouchable, that a connect is almost impossible. It’s destructive. It makes you see and feel things, makes you sway from your path.

Why does King Me kill me? It’s because the world functions on people. People and things are the world. And when I can’t see beyond myself, I hurt others. Only in my case, since I have no one else to hurt, and so I hurt myself. I put myself through paces that are laid on death bed. And it burns. I have the marks – deep and unforgiving. People often tell me that I need to talk more but with what I have and what I do with it, my words fail me too.

That’s for a post later. Right now – Merry Christmas!!!! I’m looking forward to a new year filled with a lot of fresh opportunities and pain, because without pain, there’s no gain!

A Voice Unheard is a Voice Lost!

Ah the beauty of the songs! The rappers, they exist to let our voice out. Our voice, a common man’s voice with not enough sound and words.

How many of us partners in a relationship find ourselves in two different worlds with a sudden urge to improve our lives, fulfil our dreams, live our fantasies, only that we are the only hinderance in their plans? The thought that sticks out is, ‘I can do so much more and give us so much more, just that I’m in love with you and I can’t leave you’. Such crossroads seldom come but when they do, they are a real test of patience, trust, and responsibility towards each other. The path of my life that I once swore by, stands divided. My phase has arrived. I face 2 routes now –

1. To go ahead and give way to freedom of thoughts and actions. A path I’ll choose for every living being on this planet at any moment of my life. They all have the right to live their own life, do what they want to and experience life on their terms. Why do I give this freedom? Because this is one luxury I don’t give myself. I’ll forever feel responsible – to stay away from trouble as much as I can, to keep my partner away from one, and pavé way for them when they are stuck in their life, to steer them clear from any possible danger. I’ll never let go no matter how easy someone makes it for me. People have tried but this hard assed brain just can’t make peace with responsibility.

2. The other option is to stop this infighting inside my brain, pause life around me and say NO. No! Whatever we do, we do it together and never leave each other even if it means killing a thousand seeds of dreams and some dreams themselves. How cruel will that be?

Also when I say NO, don’t I go against a nature – Mine! How will I ever console myself if there was an opportunity to be had and I let it go or made others let it go? What if an idea never turned true only for my selfishness? Aren’t I the devil then?

A thing I’ve had plenty of is failure – lots of them, some of them even career threatening and the only thing I gave myself then were chances in abundance. Chances to perform, to stand up straight and adore myself once in a while gleaming with pride in the face of a mirror. And it’s these chances that everyone deserves and must yearn for. An indomitable spirit, in more cases than not, paves way towards your aim. Be positive and it in turn creates positive waves around you that affect everyone and fills them with positivity too, something they may have forgotten to imbibe within themselves.

All you’ve got to do then is – Shout it out, as loud as possible! And things are ticked into motion just to fulfil your destiny, your wish. It’s not hope, it’s a belief and I live by it. For until your words don’t leave your brain, they’ll forever remain unheard and unacted upon.

Be your own gramophone! 😀

Alone I’m Lost

Definition of a Pulsar –

a degenerate neutron star; small and extremely dense; rotates very fast and emits regular pulses of polarized radiation

You know how most of us need a certain accessory to make us look that tad bit good. That bit that adds that spark which defines your spirit and your style. An unrelenting force, that keeps coming to you to give you more. It belongs to you. And that’s what eventually outshines the rest of the ‘dull’ you!

Well, standing alone I’d look like a bum and this is certainly not the first time I’m confessing to this fact on my blog! Shabby clothing and dirty shoes often define my appearance. I don’t care for my looks and it quite literally shows. Deep inside I think I am a stud when I’m more visibly, an elephant with a punctured ass.

It’s when I’m not walking though, that I’m seated on a beast. A beast that deserves the credit for carrying high hopes, dreams, responsibilities, weight of a man that nearly matches it’s own, and it does it EVERYDAY. Yes, that’s MY PULSAR.

Now how does my Pulsar justify the actual definition –

Degenerate –

Hell yeah! Just like me… gives me ideas as crazy as I am… goes as fast as it can and slow when it wants… just lets me handle it like the stallion ‘Spirit’ from the animated movie (nothing degenerate about the movie though)!

Small and extremely dense –

It’s pretty small compared to other larger monsters in the market all while it eagerly dishes the same pace as most will on any given day!

Rotates very fast and emits regular pulses of polarized radiation –

Told you its way damn fast for most to handle. Regarding the radiation part, I tend to compare it with the jealousy it instills in a thousand hearts every day – “Awhh hows that elephant riding so fast?” “What. Is. That. Mean. Machine!” “Hey mechanic, can I have the sound of my bike changed to how this one sounds (pointing to mine)”!

It has the same sense of direction as I do. It has love. It makes a bit of noise but only to disturb the inattentive. It honks angrily and loud like no other, just like I do when I’m angry! It’s sexy. It looks just one way and that’s forward. Without it, I’m lost!

And here’s to the shittiest part of the new and improved Daily Post, the best one that the brilliant techie minds of Daily Post on WordPress have thrown at us, THE PINGBACKS (GRID VERSION)that are in no way the pingbacks of the old –

http://thebohemianrockstarpresents.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/daily-prompt-you-sexy-thing/

http://raraness.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/confident-in-monochrome/

http://bonuminlibero.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/on-confidence-and-clothing/

http://kansamuse.me/2014/04/15/decent-outfit/

http://melissuhhsmiles.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/meaningsa-to-z-day-13/

http://criticaldispatches.com/2014/04/12/giving-life-the-runaround/

http://www.pghlesbian.com/2014/04/ever-wish-you-had-a-fashionista-godmother/

http://graceholden.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/250/

http://eastelmhurstagogo.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/every-girls-crazy-bout-a-sharp-dressed-man/

http://tony1577.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/the-only-thing-that-looks-good-on-me-is/

http://fibijeeves.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/daily-prompt-1950s-pirate-chic/

http://abozdar.wordpress.com/2014/04/11/extremely-handsome/

http://rolbos.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/daily-prompt-french-lingerie-will-get-her-there/

http://thepigmentsoflife.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/you-sexy-you/

http://purplesus.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/you-sexy-thing/

http://wisskko.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/choose-one-color-which-you-like-the-best-and-explain-why/

http://abozdar.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/advice/

http://hopethehappyhugger.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/hair-hair-hair-hair/

http://charronschatter.com/2014/04/15/nayfare/

http://myjourneyeveryday.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/daily-prompt-you-sexy-thing/

http://knowledgeaddiction.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/new-sensation/

http://psychologistmimi.com/2014/04/15/wait-did-i-wear-this-dress-yesterday/

http://angloswiss-chronicles.com/2014/04/15/daily-prompt-you-sexy-thing/

http://frncnseal585.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/you-sexy-thing/

http://kate0murray.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/sexy/

http://ambikarani.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/sexy-srk/

http://bobbeck1600.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/you-sexy-thing/

http://morrighansmuse.com/2014/04/15/you-sexy-thing-you/

http://brokenlightcollective.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/ascension/

http://averildean.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/watercolor/

http://lifebeinggirly.com/2014/04/15/you-sexy-thing/

http://arakawafiction.wordpress.com/2014/04/15/napowrimo-day-15-victorian-praise/

http://breakingbadness.wordpress.com/2014/04/16/being-sexy/

P.S. – This is the (pardon me for I’m going to use the word again) shittiest and the ugliest (if shits weren’t that ugly for someone) part of the new and improved Daily Post. I want to ask everyone to please plead to Daily Post people to bring back the list of pingbacks links that were so easy to copy and paste than having to copy and paste each and every link from that GRID list that they’re apparently very proud of. I’ve left 2 comments in their comments section that they haven’t bothered to let past moderation, when they are nothing but a bit hard requests to bring back the pingback lists and keep the grid as well. I’m writing this as this is very de-motivating for some reasons that I’d rather not talk about.

Learn From the Children

A few days ago I thought, what would it be like to still be a child? Clean as a slate. No problems, no rights, no wrongs, an indomitable spirit of a flying falcon, ready to pounce on every opportunity to play and do whatever he wants to – that’s a child!

I was thinking aren’t rights and wrongs mere perceptions? A child doesn’t come into the world knowing what’s right or wrong. We teach it to him. Some may say, we only teach them so they be careful. But aren’t we just suppressing an inherent nature to toy around with things? Aren’t we scaring him even before he tries? Yes, you got to hold his back but give him a fighting chance to instill the necessary courage and self-confidence to meet his goal! A child does what’s absolutely clear in his head. We simply got to teach them to trust and respect us.

They must be allowed to learn their own way. We must never fiddle with their nature for they’ve got to understand themselves early. They’ll eventually figure it out but it’s only they who have to – not the parents. Parents I know, may feel a bit bad about what I’m saying, but I have countless examples around me that are trying to just be themselves and not someone elses image of perfection. And they are the ones who are truly happy even in their failures, for they can positively and most assuredly say, they are on their paths to their own idea of glory.

Not everyone is a Mahatma Gandhi or David Beckham by birth. We must teach the children to think straight, give them knowledge that helps them achieve their dreams and I highly emphasize on “their dreams”. We should tell them the meaning of dreams and how important they are for contentment. Because without contentment, all that we achieve and earn is worthless. We can never be at peace without it.

Money is nothing but a tool towards contentment. Money is and will forever be the reason for the greatest wars and terrible atrocious crimes. He who has money is as discontented as the man without it, because he never finds out the true purpose of holding it. So he keeps running after it all his life, gaining nothing and hurting a million others. Why does he need it? Why is running after it so important? Parents have to make sure that they set an example to live modestly so children themselves never raise their bar of expectations – those expensive toys, iPods, iPads and stuff. Parents have to let the children outdoors, for indoors is where all the bad stuff is.

One person though who still has the heart of a child, is my wife. She doesn’t understand the complicated. Most people simply misunderstand her because they think she’s playing with their heads, being all intelligent and cunning and stuff but trust me, she isn’t even a decimal percentage of what we call cunning. I am cunning. I know people who can’t be trusted and they are so close to me. And yet all she cares about is, she doesn’t want to hurt anyone. She can’t seem to understand why on earth is she hated so much. My poor baby! How do I tell her, oh man!

I guess, she is the perfect example of who you must choose to be right from the start – free, warm yet chilled, and peaceful. And these traits are so easy to attain, if we grow up respecting everything that earth has to offer. People, animals, air, water, soil – respect everything and the world will respect you and that way, you’ll already have achieved 95% of what you may ever seek in your life.

And I keep thinking, why am I becoming a preacher when I can never follow it myself? Because that’s what I’ve chosen to be. To be the oppressed, a shield to someone who doesn’t know how to shield herself. I’ll take the hits while you run with your life. You just be… yourself. For that smile on your face is what keeps me going!

We have to learn from the children for we’ve forgotten the meaning of freedom and unprejudiced thinking. It is as simple as that!

Life of Positivity

Fate… Destiny? Really? What are these? You may say – the end or the conclusion, wanted or unwanted.

A wanted conclusion is a result of wishful thinking. You’ve got to let it all out. Let people know what you want to do and your vibes and their energy trigger brain waves that start getting together to give you what you want. The stronger is the power of that wish, the more are the chances of it coming true. Nothing is fate.

We create our own destiny with our deeds. The better you are with people, the better your end will be. All life form ends and so must you. The difference is in the way it ends. The more humility that the life carries, the more respectful is the death. Nothing remains after you’re gone but your thoughts which portray your legacy.

The stronger is the motto of your life, more are the chances of you leading your life living it. And in this process, we impact others. The more positive are your thoughts, even more positive are the people around you. You are the energy you emit.

In short, just be good. Nothing works better for you than yourself. You lay your own foundations and end up building your own house on it. Stronger the foundation, stronger the house. Let this house be the home for your dreams. Let this house affect your thoughts in all it’s positivity. Live your dream, for it’s only you that turn them true!

Lets see what others have to say about this –

1. THE JOYS OF SPINSTERHOOD aka The Spinsterhood of the Travelling Bridesmaid | She Writes
2. SOCIETY’S CREATION: BEAUTY STANDARDS | She Writes
3. Impressions of poverty | AS I PLEASE
4. Daily Prompt: Que Sera Sera- Why we don’t achieve our goals | Journeyman
5. It’s Your Choice | Musings | WANGSGARD
6. Is it a destiny I control or fate or a bit of both? | Purplesus’ Blog
7. Daily Prompt…. Que Sera Sera? | The Ambitious Drifter
8. Daily Prompt: Que Sera Sera | The WordPress C(h)ronicle
9. We are what we are | Attempted Human Relations and Self
10. “Que Sera Sera” – A poem | The Bohemian Rock Star’s “Untitled Project”
11. Taking Control – Character’s Choices Shape Stories, Not Fate | My Little Avalon
12. Invictus? I think not…. | I’m a Writer, Yes I Am
13. destiny | yi-ching lin photography
14. DP Daily Prompt: Qeu Sera Sera | Sabethville
15. on a scale from walking | y
16. Daily Prompt: Que Sera Sera « cognitive reflection
17. Destiny | swiggityswag
18. [M.M.X.I.V. 85] מה יהיה יהיה (post is in English) | Never A Worry
19. Anthem of the oppressed | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
20. Danube | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
21. Who protects me? | wisskko’s blog
22. In Search of the Star: A Filipino Catholic from Saudi Meets an American Jew from Bosotn | Kosher Adobo
23. Daily prompt: Que sera sera | I really just pretend to know stuff
24. This Too Shall End | Losing It
25. Daily Prompt: Que Pawera Pawera | Love your dog
26. Que Sera Sera? | Hope* the happy hugger
27. Zig-Zag « Averil Dean
28. Fate had naff-all to do with that. And OMG but T2 was freaking awesome… | thoughtsofrkh
29. Zombie Planes and Fate: Driving My Life with Purpose « psychologistmimi
30. Fate, Faith and Excuses (Or the Man With the Funny Hat) | jigokucho
31. Choose, but Choose Wisely | Green Embers
32. I Had BEST See A Return On My Investment!!!! | Because It Calms My Nerves:
33. Finding No Such As ‘Fate’ | Awake & Dreaming
34. Daily Prompt: Fate vs. Free Will | Raevenly Writes
35. “Kay who, who?” | Relax
36. We do have choice | Lisa’s Kansa Muse
37. Call it what you will | From One Crazy Life To Another
38. Whatever Will Be | Flowers and Breezes
39. Fate, Destiny, Kismet – Love, Sex & Poetry (Daily Prompt – Que Sera Sera) | Linda Long Writes!
40. of nasty things, like sex and masturbation | Anawnimiss
41. God And Fish and The Daily Prompt | The Jittery Goat
42. Fate or Destiny? | The Land Slide Photography
43. Daily Prompt: Que Sera Sera | Basically Beyond Basic
44. What ever wil be will be (if we will it to be) | Move Away From Here
45. Whatever will be will be | Willow’s Corner
46. Old Soul: Daily Prompt | ALIEN AURA’S BLOG: IT’LL BLOW YOUR MIND!
47. Jk109
48. Fated for Happiness | snapshotsofawanderingheart
49. Daily Prompt: Que Sera Sera | Ramblings of A Nonsensical Nerd
50. What Will be, Will be? | Cheri Speak
51. Daily Prompt: Que Sera Sera « Mama Bear Musings
52. Waiting for the rain | The Seminary of Praying Mantis
53. Fate Chance Luck | Real Life Co.
54. “Just Do It” But Hope for A Little Bit of Luck | Parents Are People Too
55. Un Poco (a little) | djgarcia94
56. Daily Prompt: Que Sera Sera | My Atheist Blog
57. DAILY PROMPT: Que Sera Sera, Siempre por Siempre | Fit 4 Life, LLC
58. I Control My Life | Knowledge Addiction
59. This Post Comes with a Warning Label . . . | janeyinmersin
60. the way you do the things you do | eastelmhurst.a.go.go
61. Que Sera Sera | manmadeoceans
62. You can’t sit forever on destiny’s safe little shelf – | The Flavored Word
63. Destiny? | Tea & Paper
64. Daily Prompt: March 26 | Balmy Life
65. Que Sera Sera | Lead us from the Unreal to the Real
66. I Believe in Resillence….(WP Daily Prompt) | Daily Observations
67. Everything Has Changed | A Good One
68. Textured Captures: Sand & Stone | LenzExperiments
69. when you leave, i imagine | y
70. Fate or Destiny…Can It Be Controlled? | Our Baby Dreams
71. Daily Prompt: Que Sera Sera – I Quit My Job | A Note From Jenn
72. Daily Prompt: Time Can’t Be Rewritten | Blackbird’s Nest
73. Daily Prompt: Passenger Seat | Cabernet In The Dark
74. Fated? | Kate Murray
75. I control my destiny | Asianchemnerd
76. Daily Prompt: Being Destined! | All Things Cute and Beautiful
77. Moments of Fate | A.C. Melody
78. Daily Prompt: Que Sera Sera | hlpetersen
79. Luck lurks | Emotional Fitness
80. Que Sera Sera (Daily Prompt) | Roving Bess
81. Que Sera Sera | fromdublintoparis
82. Old Faces | Writing and Works
83. Who’s that knocking on the door? | Chasing Rabbit Holes
84. My Choices | My Author-itis
85. B.Kaotic
86. Daily Prompt: Que Sera Sera | Just Be V
87. The illusion of Control | Living with Post Concussion Syndrome
88. I’m a Freebird | Nodus Tollens
89. Daily Prompt: Que sera, sera | MARGARET ROSE STRINGER
90. When (Fate/Destiny, Choose One) Hands You Lemons… | by LRose
91. A Few of My Favorite Things…. | Coffee Crumbs
92. Sentimental Journey | Speculative Paradigm Shifts
93. One man’s miracle… | Trucker Turning Write
94. Day 85: Everything Happens For A Reason? | The Sacred Architecture of Here and Now
95. Daily Prompt: Que Sera Sera | genieve celada photography
96. Que Sera Sera | Alexia Jones
97. fate | make it happen. maybe?
98. Fate Or Destiny Or Whatever? | Edward Hotspur
99. Que Sera sera | Learning From Life
100. Daily Prompt: Que Sera Sera | tnkerr-Writing Prompts and Practice
101. Making Sense of the Chaos | Wiley’s Wisdom
102. Submitted | iPhotography
103. Whatever Will Be, Will Be | Ms. Raven Marie
104. Daily prompt: Probably depends on the day… | helen meikle’s scribblefest
105. Che Sarà, Sarà | Musings of a Wallflower
106. Jenna and the Train to Paris – A Continuation | When the Door Closes
107. Wyrd | loveletterstoaghost
108. The Dabbit | SPCSA – Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Stuffed Animals
109. Where has the year gone?! | jackthecurious
110. Daily Prompt: What Ever Will Be…Will Have To Be | Morrighan’s Muse
111. World’s Apart Cannot Separate My Heart‏ | In Harmony

Just Like Everyday

I awake to the haze of this world, I see hope instilled in a dream, just like everyday.

I take to that same old rocky road, I see routine, I smile, just like everyday.

I see people, leaving their prints on the road, cursing and hopeless, just like everyday.

I look up, the sun shines on my sunglasses, I feel warmth, just like everyday.

I look at my office, I see challenge, I clench my fist, just like everyday.

I see the evening sun, a round orange and crimson of cool, I soak, just like everyday.

I come home, greeted by an eager companion, wagging his tail, just like everyday.

I meet you, the incredible invisible yet believable people, chasing a million other dreams, just like everyday.

I hold the dream of a better tomorrow close to my heart, unseen to others, silently burdened, just like everyday.

The night dawns upon me, webbed bloodshot eyes, sleep is distant, just like everyday.

I leave today everyday, writing the yesterday into my legacy, awaiting tomorrow, just like everyday.

I live in today, just like everyday!

Lets see what people have left in their lives –

1. Black-and-white mood | The Bliss of Reality
2. Electric pole | Vintage Photography
3. 1973 – Volkswagen Beetle | The Bliss of Reality
4. 1970 – Volkswagen Beetle | The Bliss of Reality
5. Night is young | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
6. Crossing | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
7. 1969 – Volvo 142 | The Bliss of Reality
8. Tetris | Crazy Art
9. Daily Prompt: If You Leave -Living Simple Life and the Obstacle | Journeyman
10. Droplet from water tap explaining to its brothers and sisters structure of the world ocean | Crazy Art
11. Leaving for the Normal | Mara Eastern’s Personal Blog
12. Daily Prompt & The Button (short story) | The Jittery Goat
13. Dp Daily Prompt: If You Leave | Sabethville
14. of last straws | Anawnimiss
15. dulu dan nanti | The Frozen Tears
16. Leaving | Attempted Human Relations and Self
17. I’ve Had Enough of This Utah Place
18. Daily Prompt: Break Ups | Cabernet In The Dark
19. I’m a Writer, Yes I Am
20. Beyond the horizon | MC’s Whispers
21. Who Really DECIDES? | I’m a Writer, Yes I Am
22. Harry Potter, Famous Dads and Stoke Newington | AS I PLEASE
23. Dear John: a fictional letter | ALIEN AURA’S BlOG: IT’LL BLOW YOUR MIND!
24. Daily Prompt: Leave an old and start a new! Can I ? | seikaiha’s blah-blah-blah
25. Selbstständigkeit versus Festanstellung | Zeitarbeiterin
26. when love appeared in a yellow brick road | kaleidoscope sparks of defiance
27. DP: Leaving – Autumn by Ruswa Fatehpuri | aliabbasali
28. We Gathered Yesterday | Exploratorius
29. Daily Prompt: If You Leave « Mama Bear Musings
30. Crossroads | Inks and Scribbles
31. A Letter To Say Goodbye | The Magic Black Book
32. Too literal? Maybe, but I like the image…! | thoughtsofrkh
33. Heartbreak | Flowers and Breezes
34. COLORS AT THE CROSSROAD | SERENDIPITY
35. Leaving Pittsburgh
36. Daily Prompt: Why leaving a mouse is never easy | Blogizing
37. I Give Up | The Zombies Ate My Brains
38. Daily Prompt: March 12 | Balmy Life
39. Remember where you came from… | Rima Hassan
40. Contemplation | Lisa’s Kansa Muse
41. Going on a break | Eclecticfemale’s Blog
42. Daily Prompt: If You Leave | Awl and Scribe
43. Leaving on a Jet Plane . . . | meanderedwanderings
44. Daily Prompt: Crossroads | A Day In The Life
45. Daily Prompt: If You Leave | Finding Life
46. The Final Goodbye | Parents Are People Too
47. 412 | mesardonicmesarcastic
48. To leave or not to leave? | Sue’s Trifles
49. If You Leave | Existentialists R Us
50. poetry: daily prompt: never really leave | Shaddie on spec. fiction
51. Daily Prompt: If You Leave | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
52. the times they are a ~changin | eastelmhurst.a.go.go
53. if you leave | klstar2000
54. iQuit |
55. Let it go: Leaving so that I may stand in my own shadow « psychologistmimi
56. If I leave | Jennifer Paige
57. Leave it All Behind | Knowledge Addiction
58. Crossroads | The Land Slide Photography
59. If I Leave Detroit | A Blog of One’s Own
60. I’ve abandoned it all | See it. Shoot it. Scrap it.
61. Daily Prompt: If You Leave | Basically Beyond Basic

Cops

As I posted earlier, I’m living on the edge. And as an observation by a fellow blogger would suggest, I’m suppressing my need/want to gain self-satisfaction. I’m unable to attain my peace, my dreams and ambitions which is cooking up my brain and giving me dreams.

Frankly I’m all shook up. Have I put myself under so much pressure to perform for others that I’ve forgotten to uncork my bottle that’s full of some of my small unlistened-to wants and needs that may bring peace to me? Or am I already happy enough and over-analyzing my puny dream?

You know pressure brings out the best and the worst from people. Some give up and some give it their all. It need not be their office, their work, but it may also be a situation that you’ve never faced before. Handling Indian cops is one. They aren’t gentlemen. When they approach, they bring with them a huge cloud of negativity, that suppresses all your rationality and makes you do and say stupid things that you may repent all your life.

How I wish this changes in our country! How I wish I smile for once I see one of them around me!

Lets see how others deal with their pressure –

1. Pressure | The Magic Black Book
2. Daily Prompt: The Heat is On | Basically Beyond Basic
3. Time | The Bliss of Reality
4. Umbrellas | Crazy Art
5. Introspection | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
6. Concentration aka eating alone 🙂 | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
7. Ilya Fostiy. Is There a God? | The Bliss of Reality
8. Smile! | Crazy Art
9. My List-less Life | DCMontreal: Blowing the Whistle on Society
10. My List-less Life | DCMontreal: Blowing the Whistle on Society
11. The Farm | My Little Avalon
12. The Daily Prompt & Eric’s Aria -Part 1 (short story) | The Jittery Goat
13. Procrastination Insults My Intelligence | I’m a Writer, Yes I Am
14. The biggest appointment | MC’s Whispers
15. Under Pressure | A mom’s blog
16. pressure | yi-ching lin photography
17. DP Daily Prompt: The Heat is On | Sabethville
18. the pressure is the same | y
19. Men | Hope* the happy hugger
20. One Crazy Mom » The Heat Is On
21. Student hurrying to catch the bus (Daily Prompt: “The Heat Is On, Show Us Pressure”) | Photo0pal Photography
22. I’ll start tomorrow. | Attempted Human Relations and Self
23. DAILY PROMPT: Pressure | cockatooscreeching
24. Life Confusions
25. Daily Prompt: The Heat is On- Perspective of Medical Student | Journeyman
26. Daily Prompt: Pressure | Captured By Kylie Photography
27. The heat is on – turned down to low! | Sue’s Trifles
28. Pressure | The scribbles in the margin
29. Pressure Points and Implosions | ALIEN AURA’S BlOG: IT’LL BLOW YOUR MIND!
30. 400 Pound Burden | Rima Hassan
31. Live and Don’t Learn | Bright Tuesday
32. The Luck of the Irish | In Harmony
33. Daily Prompt: The Heat Is On |
34. Today’s To-Do List for the workplace: Don’t do the following if you want to survive « psychologistmimi
35. Daily Prompt: The Heat is On-Pressure | A Day In The Life
36. I’m blessed with a system on revolt. | thoughtsofrkh
37. In Preperation | Flowers and Breezes
38. The Heat Is On | Step Into My Head
39. Planners vs. Procratinators | Musings | WANGSGARD
40. Pressure | Active Army Wife
41. 276. Under Pressure | Barely Right of Center
42. Pressure | A picture is worth 1000 words
43. Pressure | The Land Slide Photography
44. WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH ORDER PIZZA | SERENDIPITY
45. Daily Prompt: The Heat is On | Raspberry’s Daydreams
46. the heat is on | klstar2000
47. Feeling the Pressure | L5GN
48. Deadlines and Commitments: What to Leave In, What to Leave Out (B. Seger) | meanderedwanderings
49. Under Pressure | Lisa’s Kansa Muse
50. Daily Prompt: The Heat is On | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
51. Rock My World | The Library Lady and Rosie Bear
52. Daily Prompt: Pressure (Nonet) | Morrighan’s Muse
53. THE DAILY PROMPT: PRESSURE | Francine In Retirement
54. Blogging Brings Stuff
55. Friday Night Letdown | Losing It
56. Daily Prompt… So what IS Pressure? | Eden’s Effort
57. Deadlines | Life is great
58. Daily Prompt: My reliable mate | one hundred thousand beats per day

We Built This City, We Built WordPress

As I listen to this clatter of rainfall on the tin shade, as I wait on my internet connection to die again, as I reflect on my weekend, I realize the only thing I could do was nullify my backlog in responding to your blogs.

Man, sometimes I feel you are so many. Each one of you is a different identity like a different structure. Some of you are young, some old, some beautiful, some crude, some artistic, some blunt, some love, some life, some rant, some hate, some news, some fun. It’s a journey I could only have dreamt of doing once in my lifetime. And here I am, passing those streets again and again, everyday, without fail, sometimes late, in my dreams, in my reality, so sound and genuine are you, you never once fail to make me smile. I wonder what you’re walls are made of, are you stable, how do you balance yourself so well in this city full of blogging structures – in this city called WordPress!

A city that lies beneath the skies of dreams, made true by the people and their hard work, day in and day out. What the people breathe is the air made of art, humanity, and love. I see you and I see so many people looking at me everyday asking me to do something better, just try a bit harder, get some life from the pore of these fingers, just as we do in our society.

If I were a mayor of this beautiful city, I wouldn’t change a damn thing!

Lets see what your city looks like –

1. Alien on the fence | The Bliss of Reality
2. Dubai World Trade Center Wedding: Amal & Mahmood | Rima Hassan
3. Street lamp hiding in the trees | The Bliss of Reality
4. I live in a city (Poem) | A mom’s blog
5. Rebuilding the City – where to start | A Teacher’s Blog
6. [M.M.X.I.V. 68] Where Chicago and the North Shore Meet | Never A Worry
7. The Daily Prompt & Start With We (short story) | The Jittery Goat
8. Civilisation | ALIEN AURA’S BlOG: IT’LL BLOW YOUR MIND!
9. Making love – the role of the sacred. Civilisation | ALIEN AURA’S BlOG: IT’LL BLOW YOUR MIND!
10. DP Daily Prompt: We Built This City | Sabethville
11. S. Thomas Summers: Writing with Some Ink and a Hammer | In the Shadows
12. If I were mayor… | Sue’s Trifles
13. Once promising, the colour has started to fade. Fast. | thoughtsofrkh
14. Ogden Shmogden | Community | WANGSGARD
15. San Francisco Twenty Twelve Part One | Greg Urbano
16. My beautiful Melbourne | Purplesus’ Blog
17. No Place I’d Rather Be | snapshotsofawanderingheart
18. DAILY PROMPT: Getting back to nature | cockatooscreeching
19. Train journeys | A picture is worth 1000 words
20. Daily Prompt: We Built This City- Psychology behind embracing change | Journeyman
21. Daily Prompt: We Built This City | tnkerr-Writing Prompts and Practice
22. civilization | yi-ching lin photography
23. Daily Prompt: My Town | A Day In The Life
24. most cities are | y
25. Where I live | Kate Murray
26. If I Was A Mayor | Flowers and Breezes
27. Spring – A Haiku | My Little Avalon
28. Daily Prompt: We Built This City | Basically Beyond Basic
29. We Built This City: Civilization – Cat City | Khana’s Web
30. What’s The Word On The Street? Betting Shops, Pawn Shops & Empty Shops… | Steve Says…
31. Build Your City | Faith, Life and Compassion
32. In My City… | Life Confusions
33. Do Pgh Memes Inherently Have To Be Racist, Transphobic and Vicious?
34. what of the stories | peacefulblessedstar
35. Daily Prompt: We Built This City | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
36. Sitting in a P.A. Haze | Finale to an Entrance
37. I’m a Writer, Yes I Am
38. 275. Broken City | Barely Right of Center
39. We Built This City | melissuhhsmiles
40. Home is Where the Art Is | I’m a Writer, Yes I Am
41. College campus (Daily Prompt: “We Built This City, Show Us Civilization”) | Photo0pal Photography
42. Hometown – the good, the bad and the ugly | Why is there bread in my Kool-Aid?
43. A BIT OF CIVILIZATION | Lisa’s Kansa Muse
44. False Hope of Spring | Elizabeth Merritt Abbott
45. Civilization | The Land Slide Photography
46. we built this city | klstar2000
47. Cancer Isn’t Pink
48. Earthquakes and Civilizations | Cancer Isn’t Pink
49. We Built this City | Brain Teaser
50. New York: This Dream Isn’t Feeling Sweet | A Sober Head Full Of Confusion
51. My Kind of Town | My Author-itis
52. Civilization | Photos by Emilio
53. Daily Prompt: We Built This City/Civilization | @ The West Gate
54. Living on Cape Cod | The Bohemian Rock Star’s “Untitled Project”
55. Make a house a home | sunny side dreamers
56. My Little Piece of Heaven in the Philippines | Schizo Incognito
57. We Built This City: Daily Post | Destino
58. Daily Prompt: Of a Civilized Fashion | Born on a Wednesday
59. Abusive Courtesy | thejimmieG
60. The Flare | THE MARRIED MAN WHO LOVES HIS X
61. Daily Prompt: We Built This City: Home: a Village in a Valley | Just Be V
62. Grave concerns | thesememorieswhich
63. Civilized architecture | Le Drake Noir
64. The Dog Denied Service – the Tragic Error of the City of Toronto | thismoonlesssky
65. It’s just right | Mindful Digressions
66. Daily Prompt: Civilization | That Montreal Girl
67. Cheers! | Trucker Turning Write
68. Daily Prompt: Suburban Civilization | Lady K’s Lounge
69. Daily prompt: Leaving us alone would be good | helen meikle’s scribblefest
70. We Built This City (Writing Prompt) | 365 Days of Thank You
71. Shirtsleeves and slush | Muddy River Muse
72. Waitin’ on a Train | The Shotgun Girls
73. Things I love about Cleveland | Hot and Bothered
74. We Built This City | Laughing Through Life
75. The District – We Built This City | MetaRead360 Small Press presents
76. Cityscape | REALITY TO RANDOMNESS
77. City of Angels | U Be Cute – Follow the child inside of you…
78. Microcosm | djgarcia94

I’ll Take Care

So something authentic and mind churning came my way today in a text message –

“No matter where you come from and when you start, your dreams are valid“.

My wife sent it to me. She told me that she was well applauded for her quote and even received a gift! Congrats Baby!

She went on to ask me, what I think of it? I liked it!

I think it speaks tons of what’s in her mind and how dear are her dreams to her heart.

I’ll tell you a few things about her that are necessary to know her. She is a dreamer of course. If you’ll ask her what’s her greatest dream, she’ll say – I want to be famous. If you’ll ask her what does she think about money, she’ll say – I don’t need much (which sometimes can be very tricky to comprehend, mind you). 😉

Back to the dreams though, she really does want to be famous. She loves colors, hates routines, loves comfort, hates dullness. She is in fact so much like a kid, you can see her expression change when things are not going according to her and the smiling coming back, when things do. Her head turns away from anything she doesn’t like much. She’s full of energy when she gets to smile, laugh and spread some and yet has none that’s expendable, to perform mundane tasks at home.

For some reason, the exciting never escapes her. She has a nose for it and it gets very perilous sometimes. The sudden clicks in her head can get so unnerving, she gets very difficult to cope with.

None of these are problems, mind you! She is a human being. She loves fun and is very open about it. She has a very unique mind that just doesn’t accept haze, for haze handicaps her. She hates confusions, loves frank and open discussions and if she gets her mind at some task, you can rest assured, it will be done.

She wants to do so much and is always on a prowl to do something unique. She’s brilliant at getting things done. She loves everyone and everything till they give her a reason for the otherwise.

I believe if I ask her what are your plans for later, she’ll reply –

“I want to continue with fashion. I want to indulge in social work. I want to start writing my book (that she plans to publish in 5 years). I want switch to a new house. I want to earn more. I want to move out of Delhi”.

If you eavesdrop on some of her client calls, all talks are big and about the ginormous steps towards the unthinkable. I’ve heard so many of her calls, and each one has one thing in common – she’ll always make sure that you are never at the losing end.

There are never intricate details at any moment. Nothing is planned to the last detail and that’s her achilles heel.

And this is where the quote in her mind comes from. She doesn’t know when and where to start working on her dreams and yet she knows they’re forever valid (which they are and will remain).

You don’t have to doubt yourselves sweetheart. Things will be alright. Trust me they will be because I’ll take care. 😉

Trackbacks & Pingbacks –

1. Pilot and Pirate | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
2. Conclusion | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
3. Ilya Fostiy. Amnesia | The Bliss of Reality
4. What Is This? | Exploratorius
5. Perspective & The Daily Prompt | The Jittery Goat
6. Daily Prompt: Talking on Your Sleep-Psychology behind gossiping | Journeyman
7. DP Daily Prompt: Talking in Your Sleep | Sabethville
8. Being A Mentor | Daily Prompt: Talking in Your Sleep | Being a Huntress
9. The Door Opens Hard | Mara Eastern
10. Human vs. Humans | Rose-tinted Rambles
11. Chest-speared: poem | ALIEN AURA’S BlOG: IT’LL BLOW YOUR MIND!
12. layered | yi-ching lin photography
13. “You can be so annoying” | Hope* the happy hugger
14. we can call it an | y
15. Daily Prompt: Talking in Your Sleep | tnkerr-Writing Prompts and Practice
16. Remember where you came from… | Rima Hassan
17. DAILY PROMPT: Accidental listening | cockatooscreeching
18. Getting to the end and realising you’re way off topic. Again. | thoughtsofrkh
19. I’m a Writer, Yes I Am
20. From the Whorse’s Mouth | I’m a Writer, Yes I Am
21. The One with the Eavesdropping | Jackie Cangro
22. Overheard at the Miami doctor’s office… | Myammy! Moving in together at 50…
23. Daily Prompt: Talking in Your Sleep | Basically Beyond Basic
24. In One Ear And Out The Other | Lisa’s Kansa Muse
25. A Hotel Survivors Guide to Mischief | Green Embers
26. On Colonics or Why You Shouldn’t Assume People Don’t Understand You | Kosher Adobo
27. In Time For Dinner | Writing and Works
28. I See Nothing, I Hear Nothing, I Know Nothing | My Author-itis
29. Talking in a bus | Life is great
30. Accidentally Hearing about Accidentally Walking (Daily Prompt Challenge) | Ana Linden
31. Daily Prompt: Being a Spy! | All Things Cute and Beautiful
32. Things I say in my sleep. | Sticky Notes and Coffee
33. I Ain’t Been Dropping No Eaves! | meanderedwanderings
34. My Heart Breaks | Flowers and Breezes
35. I’ll Take Care | Views Splash!
36. Words Not Meant For Me | snapshotsofawanderingheart
37. YOU’LL NEVER OVERHEAR ANYTHING GOOD | SERENDIPITY
38. Daily Prompt: Talking in your sleep. | Emotional Fitness
39. Minutely Infinite | Box Of Secrets
40. Story of My Life. | Asta’s Space
41. Excuse Me While I Eavesdrop On You | Musings | WANGSGARD
42. Daily Prompt: More Than Just A Pretty Face (Nonet) | Morrighan’s Muse
43. Daily Prompt: Talking in Your Sleep | marilynrayknopic
44. Daily Prompt: Talking in Your Sleep | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
45. Everybody should eavesdrop once in a while… | An Upturned Soul
46. Don’t pee when you talk to me! | The Salmon Yatra
47. Talking in My Sleep | A Room of My Own
48. Overheard | A picture is worth 1000 words
49. Daily Prompt: Talking in Your Sleep | The Bohemian Rock Star’s “Untitled Project”
50. talking in your sleep | klstar2000
51. The Art of Stealth Listening | djgarcia94
52. Talking in Your Sleep | The Nameless One
53. Color | charlottesville winter
54. We Got Company Comin’ | The Shotgun Girls
55. Acidic | High Yellow Darling
56. (What’s The Story) Morning Glory…? | Steve Says…
57. Dream talk | Kate Murray
58. Things I Say | Mila’s Misadventures
59. Daily Prompt: Talking in your sleep| Your friend may turn out to be your worst enemy | viCKaakin
60. Daily Prompt: Talking in Your Sleep | Occasional Stuff
61. Daily Prompt: Talking in Your Sleep | Just Be V
62. Mistaken | La Gatita Oscura
63. Accident Waiting to Happen | Travel with Intent
64. Daily Prompt: Talking in Your Sleep | Here I am !!
65. Daily Prompt: Talking in Your Sleep | Lady K’s Lounge
66. Bless me Father. | Trucker Turning Write
67. Gossip | My Little Avalon
68. Manager Failing | missmoodygirl
69. Spelling accident (Daily Prompt: “Talking In Your Sleep, Show us ACCIDENT”) | Photo0pal Photography
70. Overheard | belindabroughton
71. Holy Grail | Lux
72. Daily Prompt : Accident | That Montreal Girl
73. Beer, Punditry, and Self-Satisfaction | Serial Distractions
74. How to keep your kids smiling | Parents Are People Too

Raging Inferno

I’m taking this prompt only to console myself. To let myself know that there are other bad dreams too, the easily recurring ones, harmless, that leave an imprint on your mind so you may narrate them to your near and dear ones and get over with.

Yeah, I’ve been through worse. I’ve lived a nightmare but I’m not telling you about it. One that I’m about to tell you is totally made out of my life –

I see red haze,

I see gloom.

I see a railway station,

That has no room.

It’s an unending caress of fright,

That doesn’t care for day or night.

I feel myself floating as if in air.

I see no shadows, I’ve lost my darker pair.

With no horizon and no depth to see,

I look closer and you’re peering at me!

—

I’ve never known the person looking at me. And that’s frightening!

Also has anyone fell through an eternal depth onto a rock? I see myself riding bicycles for many miles visiting a lot of houses of my relatives, my parents, crossing many railway lines, huge porches, happiness, food. It’s the only happy one I have.

But I’m never telling you the one that lasted nearly 8 months!

How’s everyone else Dreaming –

1. Back In Bug and The Daily Prompt | The Jittery Goat
2. Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams- The Psychology of Dreaming | Journeyman
3. Deliverance | Perspectives on life, universe and everything
4. Fairy Wings- Non Fiction | Rose-tinted Rambles
5. Sky on floor level | Le Drake Noir
6. Until then… | Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams | Ireland, Multiple Sclerosis & Me
7. I Dreamed About Avril Lavigne | THE BLACK SPAGHETTI CHRONICLES
8. Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) | Incidents of a Dysfunctional Spraffer
9. Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) | tnkerr-Writing Prompts and Practice
10. Nighmare | Mara Eastern
11. One Crazy Mom » My Worst Nightmare
12. Imaginary | La Gatita Oscura
13. Care to Dare | Rima Hassan
14. Best Dream: YOU – Daily Prompt | alienorajt
15. thoughtsofrkh
16. Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) | The Wandering Poet
17. Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams? | seikaiha’s blah-blah-blah
18. Truman Capote Dreams /Daily Prompt | I’m a Writer, Yes I Am
19. DP Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams( Are made of… | Sabethville
20. Nightmares | Hope* the happy hugger
21. Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) « Mama Bear Musings
22. I Dreamt of Heaven | Misifusa’s Blog
23. It’s 3am, I Must Be Up Reading Your Blog | Do Not Get Sick in the Sink, Please
24. Speed of Light | THE MARRIED MAN WHO LOVES HIS X
25. This is What a Free Sailboat Looks Like | Exploratorius
26. Daily Prompt: Worst Nightmare, 26.02.14 | Markie’s Daily Blog
27. Daily post:sweet dreams | Going New Places!
28. Since I was Prompted | Treading over Stars
29. Imaginary: Daily Post | Destino
30. “I need to climb the cherry tree to get to the marshmallows” | jigokucho
31. Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) | Raspberry’s Daydreams
32. The prophetic nature of my Puerto Rican dreams « psychologistmimi
33. Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) | snippets and words
34. Sweet Dreams | Knowledge Addiction
35. Anselo’s Poetry – A Story – Part 7 | Kilbo – Chris Kilbourn
36. Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) | Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss
37. Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) | Basically Beyond Basic
38. What Are Dreams Made Of? | the TEMENOS JOURNAL
39. Daily Post: Imaginary | Different Isn’t Wrong, It’s Just Different
40. It’s another Nightmare | Lisa’s Kansa Muse
41. Recurring Nightmares (Are Made of This) | Virginia Views
42. Accused | Life is great
43. Nightmares | Flowers and Breezes
44. Raging Inferno | Views Splash!
45. Mall Stampede | Musings of a Soul Eclectic
46. Imaginary | The Land Slide Photography
47. Dreams are made of this… Who am I to disagree | An Upturned Soul
48. Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams – Mark II, Mod VI | tnkerr-Writing Prompts and Practice
49. Reality vs. Dreaming | Busy Mind Thinking
50. When reality is a nightmare… | A picture is worth 1000 words
51. Dark Waters | Vampire Maman
52. Book Excerpt | Sarah’s Typos
53. It’s Like I Dreamed You Into Life | A Sober Head Full Of Confusion
54. Sweet dreams are made of this. | The Shevster’s Space
55. Dreams and Exams | A mom’s blog
56. imagi-Nation | peacefulblessedstar
57. Visions of You | snapshotsofawanderingheart
58. Dream Quest | djgarcia94
59. 8 Themes Of My Dreams
60. Their Nightmares And Mine | So Not Simple
61. Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) | Emotional Fitness
62. Artificial Peace | thejimmieG
63. A Night with the Living Dead | Menimèse Creare
64. The Stuff Of Dreams…And Nightmares | moonstonemaiden
65. The Funny Thing About Dreams | My Musings | WANGSGARD.COM
66. Why do I dare dream? | Simple Heart Girl
67. Who am I to disagree? | Simple Heart Girl
68. A puzzling storm | MC’s Whispers
69. I dreamed I was on The Dating Game | Suddenly Single in Marin
70. Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) | Diary of Dennis
71. No Idris Elba, I will not marry you! | Altared Egos
72. Enter the Sandman | Green Embers
73. Haiku: Dreams Are Made Of This… | Mirth and Motivation
74. Sweet Dreams (It’s Morphin’ Time!) | Lead us from the Unreal to the Real
75. Sweet Dreams from Angel Grove | Lead us from the Unreal to the Real
76. Daily Prompt. Not so sweet dreams. (are made of this) | Matthew Alan Bennett
77. DP: Imaginary | SPCSA – Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Stuffed Animals
78. The Night I Was a Hostage | aMUSEing THINGS
79. Bare | Broken Light: A Photography Collective
80. Daily Prompt: Nightmare in the Woods | Lady K’s Lounge
81. Daily Prompt: Being Dreamy! | All Things Cute and Beautiful
82. Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams | Just Be V
83. A Dream: An Open Letter to Air Supply | Kosher Adobo
84. DREAMS OF ARMAGEDDON | hastywords
85. DREAM ASYLUM ANALYSIS | hastywords
86. Sweet Dreams – 1st Conversation about drugs | Yowza, Here We Go!
87. It Was Almost Black And White | Call Me Incorrigible
88. The stuff of Nightmares | jwdwrites
89. Far from Eden | field of thorns
90. The Shotgun Girls
91. The Haunted Guns | The Shotgun Girls
92. The Time I Married the Wrong Man | aMUSEing THINGS
93. Happy 2014 | aMUSEing THINGS
94. Dreams | Kate Murray
95. Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) | Amanda’s Blog™
96. Daily Prompt: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) | SIM | ANTICS
97. El Dreamo | Edward Hotspur
98. Sweet Dreams Are Made by Computer | Half Baked Log
99. Dream-maker | The D/A Dialogues
100. Daily Prompt: Imaginary | That Montreal Girl

Dreams Come True

I dreamt that Martin Guptill of New Zealand was scoring a century on Saturday against India and I woke up to find my dream had come true.

Another one of my most recurrent dream is – myself falling into an abyss, a dark hole right on top of an iron. And yet I’ve never done so.

Why this sudden shift towards dreams realization?

You know just the other day, a colleague of mine was telling me how his dreams had suddenly started coming true. Is this the season? Is this the year when our dreams and wishes come true?

I’d like to believe so, but the thing is what have we made our dreams to be? I have a theory. Dreams are your subconscious reminding you to stay true to your wishes, wishes long forgotten and lost but so loved deep down in your heart that your body, your veins and the blood in it, just re-emphasizes the power of your wishes and dreams from time to time.

But this certainly doesn’t explain the one dream that I told you about where I fall?

Will anyone care to explain?

Dilbert – 10/12/2013

Color of your dreams

I have been having this trouble sleeping lately. They may have a lot of science behind it but I don’t know it and I don’t care to know it. My question is simple – What color do you see your dreams in?

I have had an incident in my life which changed the perception of all my dreams and it occurred way back in my childhood when I didn’t even know what that incident meant then and what would it mean later in my life. I never thought of my life back then — I was so young! But now when I have started taking a lot of interest in my life and have started learning about it, started pursuing my interests rather than others, I now see that that particular incident made a severe dent in my life. It changed the way I have perceived women and would forever perceive them. I just grew up around it. Now I’m a 29 year old man, who has grown up with all his roots firmly held in place but roots that are watered only by that incident. And it happened in a glowing red bulb!

I haven’t seen a dream lately that hasn’t been red, the haze of the same red bulb! Does it happen to others as well?

Shivers down my spine!

Three songs that no matter what the circumstances are – send shivers down my spine:

1. Flying in a blue dream – Joe Satriani

It sends shivers of peace, calm, cool warmth.

2. Hell is Home – Judas Priest

It sends shivers of anger, power and disdain for the world.

3. Suicidal Dream – Silverchair

It sends shivers of loneliness, fear of death and fearful dreams

I will keep adding to this list for my own safe-keep. Anyone else who feels the same about some of the songs that they listen to?