Posted in Fiction, Prompts

Happy and Sad Tides

January 6 – Afternoon (Loss)

The post new year/Christmas atmosphere is still charged with excitements and greetings of “happy new year” to friends and colleagues you’ve not seen since the new calendar year started.

You know deep within you that it means nothing and nothing is new. After over two and half decades of doing it over and over again, you’d be a fool to not know that it’s all nonsense.

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Posted in Life, Salient Thoughts

Sincerely, Life

Life is a mystery no one can fully understand. I’ve come to learn, a lesson not easily learnt, that life is the best teacher…yes, life! No one teaches a better lesson than life.. On faith, on morals, on love, even when you are not ready to learn, she teaches still, till you reach that stage when you understand why…or other times when you never know. Continue reading “Sincerely, Life”

Posted in Life, Truth

The Story of a Life of Lie.

All his life, he had been favored, he came to believe in the supernatural as there was no other way to explain his good fortune. As a kid, he always got the best even in odd circumstances. Some would say the heavens had smiled on him, others would say it is mere coincidence while the rest believed it was the hand of fate, after all, que sera sera, so no matter what, it is planned already… but all along, he always knew there was more to his story, even if he couldn’t quite place his hand on it. Continue reading “The Story of a Life of Lie.”