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The Jinn gave Reehan three wishes. It was sort of general practice. Reehan just smiled. He knew exactly what he wanted. But Jinn kept talking. Jinn explained what are the things which are out of scope and which are in the scope. Also explained the basic rule,i.e., you cannot wish for more wishes, LOL. But Reehan wouldn't need that. He wouldn't even need his three wishes. He looked at the night sky, but he didn't focus at anything. He just kind of tried to look through, and beyond. Unclear of his understanding of the world, and what it stands for. He was tired. Not tired physically, but emotionally, mentally. He failed to understand his very purpose, and at some point he gave up. Why, he wondered. May be it was way damn difficult. It is easy to solve a problem. But it is very much difficult to find a problem which is worth solving, which would make you feel whole. And He was searching restlessly. And yet He failed. He always thought, man was never supposed to have intel...

I am a die hard fan of harry potter series, both movies and books. But definitely more of books. And I keep reading it once in a while, I just open any random part with any random page number. And then I find myself spending an hour, submerged in the world of magic. So when recently, after reading few pages, I thought to myself, why do I do this. I mean, after all, I know every page of this book.  And then I asked around, in my circle, if anyone does this. And apparently, everyone has a thing or two. Somebody watches FRIENDS again and again. Somebody likes to watch some YouTube series. Another one likes to read some book, again and again. Someone loves to listen narrations by Pu La Deshpande, Someone watches highlights of some old sport event. And why do we do this? There are very few things in life, we experience, which makes us really happy. And that happens when we feel like we are part of the experience. For example, while reading Harry Potter, I always feel like I'm ...

Do you ever feel like the people around us, at times, influence us too much. At least a guy like me, who listens more than talk, feels like that. I mean it's like you are being bombarded with thoughts and ideas and experiences and views and opinions. And this stuff isn't just about what people are doing, it's about what I'm doing as well. That doesn't mean I don't like to be around people, it's just that sometimes the place called mind is overcrowded. And that's the reason, my own thoughts are finding it difficulty to find their way. Getting what I mean? And that's when I made a plan. A plan to find some me time. But sitting at home alone doesn't work, cause when we are alone at home, we have an habit to surrender to the trio(fb-whatsapp-insta), so I thought, let's get out. But when I got out, the places I know, they were filled with people. Just like crowded mind, these crowded places were unable to give the space I needed. And I kept loo...

'Somebody asked him, what is your drug, He said "Hope", the most addictive of them all' I came across this quote while going through some Instagram feed. And it's true, isn't it? We all are addicted to this thing called 'Hope'. And that's when I decided to give this a little thought. Here it goes. I believe, when humans evolved over a period, and while evolving physically, our brains got evolved too. And then we started to think, and that was the biggest achievement of mankind. The ability to think, makes us different from all the other living species on this planet. But like every good thing comes with a bad thing, this too, had it's own disadvantages. Thinking gives us capability to solve our problems, but then there are some problems which we cannot solve, and that's the trouble. Whenever we come across a problem we cannot solve, our thinking hit a roadblock, and that's when we feel sad, lost and at times depressed as w...

When I was a kid, I always wanted to grow up. cause being a kid, you don't get to have many liberties. Being part of middle class is even worse for a kid. You have limitations on everything. From the cloths you wear, to the stationary and toys you buy, to movie theater and restaurant visits you can have, to the trips you can make. It feels like you are trapped in a life, which has so many things and you can't have most of the things, and there's nothing that you can do about it. And yes, that definitely sucks. And that is when I decided, it's better to be an adult than a kid(Yeah, I was always more mature than the kids of my age). And then I grew up, where I could earn sufficient to spend the way I want to. But what I failed to understand as a kid is that it's just not about money only. When you grow physically, you grow emotionally as well. Being a kid, our emotions are so limited that they don't bother us much. We are not exposed to stuff as attachments, in...

He walks towards her apartment. And stops at the gate. He isn't sure if this is right move. He knows that he behaves stupid when he is nervous. So decides to not do that. And he waits. He calls her up, but her phone is not reachable. He tries couple of more times. But it's not happening. He feels restless, should he just leave? And that's when he gets a SMS, she's on her way to the gate. It's often the case that, the person you talk on WhatsApp and call, isn't same in the real world. And that's what he's worried. What if she finds him a nerd or weirdo, he's too tense. But somehow he holds everything together. And she walks out of the gate. And she smiles. And that makes him smile. There's famous lyrics from a famous song, "Itfaaqon mein, laakhon mein, milte hai ajnabi " ( it  takes millions of coincidences to meet two strangers and connect - poor translation), and that's what is playing in his head while walking with her. ...

"Lately I've been losing sleep, dreaming about the things that we could be" And that's the lyrics of the song 'Counting stars' by One Republic. Very beautiful song with awesome music, but this line of the song has made home in my mind. Cause it's literally the story of this generation (My generation, LoL). I have seen people talk about the world, as if they see it as a dream. And everyone is a dreamer, everybody wants something that belongs to our imagination only, like an expensive car, or a perfect partner, or a super-paid job or maybe an awesome vacation, a rich home, or other "N" number of things. A dream which makes us feel good, just by imagining that it would be true. Now coming back to the line. While thinking about this dream, few of us realize the fact, (Everybody sooner or later), that it may just stay as a dream in the end. And that thought loves to haunt us. And then we start to panic. And literally lose sleep, in some c...