I look at the kid.
Bubbly, full of life, tall and pretty with her Julia Roberts cheekbones and slow smile.
I think back. To the way I was.
Not j, not the green monster.
But by this age I had written and crossed out quite a few life chapters.
Today, I like myself more.
The anticipation of a new book, the wonder, the delight...
Of a people so similar but not quite.
Mornings that are green drenched, the water trickling in tiny rivulets down my face, '
and the familiar takes on the mystery of a place unseen, and magical.
8 comments:
It's good, isn't it to like yourself more with every passing year? :) I hope I can do that forever.
so true.. and so honest...
Beautiful prose, Austere. Today, I like myself more too. :)
I liked that line austy "Today I like myself more" :-) Often look back and think if I had taken some other decision, life would have been different...but I am glad at what decisions I took. It is so important to like yourself right?
forgiving oneself should be the foremost thg as loving one self wid all the if's and but's is the most important thg...
are you writing a book austere di?
Yep-with each coming year,the maturity level increases..so true,Austy.:)And,frankly,many times,I see what I could have done better in the past, be it in personal or work life.:)
Nice pic the 'water trickling ...'line conjures up...out here,I'd modify it to 'wee drops of perspiration trickling down ....'after a nice walk,or, on a humid day,which is every other day these days.:)
Yes, it is, Tamanna. But I wouldn't have thought/dreamt so, back then.
Abhilasha-- and yet not so completely transparent.
Leni :) thank you.
PQ- oh yes, it is. And looking back, we're kinder to what we were, faltering,not quite knowing what the future had in store.
Abhilasha- My respect for myself went up a couple of notches. By that age, I'd seen so much of life, learnt some tough lessons...
Norrbu- me? reading a new book. "In other rooms, other wonders"
Amit- I guess I needed the contrast and the distance from that time. Baroda's been having some rain as well.
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