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The Possession of a Preoccupied Mind

Hey, how you doin'?  No, I am not rewatching Friends for the zillionth time.  It's just that I hate to start traditionally.  I'm in a conflicting situation: some of my readers like my conversational tone, but apparently it isn't quite acceptable to the publication agencies. Two of my best-appreciated stories were rejected because of their tone. The rejection felt like a jolt that I could practically feel in my head, especially the second one.  Since that day, I've been caught up in a vicious loop of boredom because I stopped writing anything new.   I also called off a new transcription gig that promised me some good money, but the client was a tad bit of a scoundrel in his behaviour.  So here I am, having voluntarily stepped away from both writing and work, and somehow managing to be bored out of my mind. Pretty efficient, ain't I? I'm in that peculiar state where I don't want to do anything to kill time, yet somehow want the time to pass joyfully. I ...

Until We Meet Again

Do we stop grieving over our loved ones? Does time really swipe away the despair, the intense pain that we once felt? By saying once felt, do I mean that I don't feel it anymore?  Does the void ever fill itself up ?  Do we fill them up with anything but the memories, 24 years of it, that we cherish ? One thing I understood about the way we feel about our loved ones is that they are not their silhouette, they are not their appearance. They might be a little bit of their skills but that can be acquired they might be a little bit of their voices but that can be imitated. So this makes us question what it is about them that makes us identify them ? As our own, as our loved ones ?  The answer is abstraction. Abstraction is something that is not physical. It can be an idea or something that you feel but cannot show. Everybody experiences abstraction of feelings and since it is common to everyone, despite the lack of demonstration we still understand what abstraction of feelings...