Dia Sharma

Her skin tasted of salt water, tears that had fallen of a broken heart and the most heart-filled laughter— neither more sad, nor happier, both pouring of honesty In her kiss was the whisper of a Siren. Her hair tangled like waves cascading down her back, pooling at her sides as she slept face down— the gentle rise of her breath could be seen in her back like the curve of a ship’s sail, that same ebb and flow as pulled gracefully by the moon She was a force that couldn’t be seen or heard; undeniably powerful yet illusive Magic She was a mystery, the same as the depths of the sea held dances of lost ships, tribes of creatures and tales of drowned loves, adventures never detailed She clung to you like sand in the crevices of your being, lasting, but not enough to collect as your own. She was the dream of escape, of vastness, of freedom Lo...

“ Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.” Yehuda Berg Words .  The one tool every single person possesses.  They can be used to create or destroy.  Words carry energy.  They can determine our own destiny and the fate of the relationships around us.  In a very real sense, life and death are in the power of the tongue, in the power of an outlook towards our world & with that one can use the words to get the life they want.  Lately, I have been examining my relationships; I have noticed how I impact those relationships, negatively and positively, just by my word choice and tone or “the best” by being silent or to rephrase by just collecting the thoughts to contemplate.  Being...

There are choices, choices that we make or choices that makes us.   I really wonder how do I define the best choices. Is it by putting oneself to last? They say, find something more important than you are, But how, exactly, do we find that? Surely, it isn’t by luck. I myself am a firm believer in the power of curiosity and choice as the engine of fulfilment, but precisely how you arrive at your true calling is an intricate and highly individual dance of discovery. Still, there are certain factors — certain choices — that make it easier. I heard people giving especial importance on social validation and the false merit metric of “prestige”. I mean, how social norms can define one’s choices?  What one should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends & family. They are & will be the ones’s who will act in your best always. Period.  & Prestige is merely the opinion of the rest of the world, it is that powerful mag...

They say, emotions are the number one motivator of someone's behaviour. & to control it one must recognise it. The other day, I happened to catch the end of the song Turn! Turn! Turn! by The Byrds.  For the remainder of the night, the song was on repeat in my head, and the following line from the song persisted for several days:  “ A time you may embrace, a time to refrain from embracing.”   Lately, there’s been a lot of conversation in my world about the purpose of emotions.  Essentially, the question has come up… How does one know when to pay heed to a particular emotion, or when to let it go?   Even in a conversation with Neha, we admitted the other day, for some, it is easier to tighten the grip on a particular emotion & for the others, if the grip is loosened or released altogether, it might feel as though we’re in a foreign territory.   But agin needless to say, ceasing from a particular emotion/s could lead ...