..my battle stance..

probably it was expected by some, probably no one would have thought of it 10 years ago. and ten years ago was when so many things happened, both the ones that were meant to be. and the ones that weren't. both the end and the beginning. it happened a decade ago. and today.. everything that was then.. isn't now. everything feels a bit blurry by now.. all those feeling.. all those memories. and today.. here we are. and this is it. the final leap. this is it. the only one that will still matter. years and decades later. this i pray.

this is not ranting or complaining.. those who know me well know that I like to make this kind trivial observation. and i have long made peace with the way the world works. so few months ago I stayed at our friend's beautiful villa at Bali. she happened to have two dogs who were roaming around freely and obviously, being someone who is not into furry and lick-y pets, I was troubled most of the times. couldn't get my head around the idea of eating and playing with dogs at the same time. and as i observed, i realised that probably more than 90% of our friends (there were like 20++ people) who were there were either lovers of dog or at least, they were dog- friendly folks, totally cool with getting licked all over and stuff. I knew I belong to the minority group but I didn't expect the group to be that small. I also noticed how some of my friends were astonished by the fact that I did not like dogs. 'how could you not like dogs?' pretty much that was the re...