Pearl Rapose's BlogPosts

There's a wonderful thing about distance. It gives you perspective. From a broader prism you realize things that you never realized when you were a part of something while you were close to it. "In hindsight..." they say. In hindsight, the wisest of men and women could see what was actually going on and the basic truth of something they couldn't see earlier. Sometimes when you are too close to something, it is blinding.  When we are invested in a job or a relationship, we have so much to deal with that is right in front of us. We have goals, ambitions, responsibilities and expectations. We are so busy giving it our all, our hundred percent. And we don't see what we are getting out of it. It's like a full-length mirror. You can see the whole reflection only when you move away.  It's so often that a person realizes that he was in a toxic relationship after having broken up. Or that the job was taking her nowhere only after she quit. Children often realize th...

Does it have to be all black or white? I highly doubt it. There are so many grey areas to everyone and everything. I seldom encounter people who are all bad or all good. There's the good in the bad and the underlying bad in those who are good. And the same goes with feelings. At a given time and space, at least for me, I'm never completely feeling one particular thing. Or maybe it's just me - and those alike me, who have their sensitivities out on a leash.  Mixed feelings are so very real. Almost an underrated zone of existence at all times for many people. Hesitance that comes with hope. Love surrounded by fear of loss. Joy that camouflages the pain within. Excitement that rumarages the doors of nervousness. Basically, a little of both the drastic ends.  Somewhere we always tread on the middle. And that's perfectly okay. Because wouldn't it be too boring to just feel one thing at a time? Also, how limited would it be to enclose yourself like that? Almost dictorian....

When the heart flutters and aches to the slightest degree, whereby there's no saying if it is pain, or sorrow, or a hollow space inside your mind; exactly then, it dawns upon you, that you are missing someone - helpless longing - the only emotion that makes sense of it all.  I've felt the same way when I'm experiencing something really good. A silent wish for a loved one to be there and feel it with me. Whenever someone pays me a genuine compliment about my work, I wish mum was there to listen to it first hand. When the favorite part of a song plays on, I want my best friends to trip on it at the same time. I miss most of my folks at festivities. And my partner almost always and everywhere when we aren't together. That's the thing about bonds. They are like shadows. Like silhouettes in the light and in the dark. They go with you. Everywhere. When we miss special ones to that degree, we create unseen forces of love and energy powered by that very love that inspires u...