Early Morning Memories

The memories that stay with us and the ones we create…

Category: life

  • The Hidden Understanding

    The Hidden Understanding

    What’s the funniest misunderstanding you’ve ever been part of? Ajit had shifted to the metropolitan city to have a good life. He wasn’t a bachelor, he had a son, a wife and his father, the only living parent. Ajit knew he had responsibilities and he needed the extra income. Ajit did fine in the banking…

  • Four edges

    Four edges

    What app eats up most of your screen time — and do you even feel bad about it? You may recall, when you go back to stories and poems back in the 80s and 90s, there are more than a few stories and humorous poems on how the television was taking up our valuable time.…

  • The Better Ability

    The Better Ability

    There is a time. A time to realise the peak of our abilities, the extent to which we can excel or our vision, how big can it stretch within our frame of capabilities. Those who are in the pursuit of becoming better for the sake of their own passion and satisfaction realise this one day.…

  • History should never be repeated

    If you could erase one trend from history, what would it be? History is the events which help us to learn and unlearn things and react accordingly. History cannot be forgotten rather its teachings should be preserved forever so that we have a better future Events or trends of history which I dislike and perhaps…

  • What Makes Us

    What Makes Us

    Do you think we’re shaped more by our experiences or by who we are? Have you had a moment of light? The moment of beginning to realize or understand the life you are living. I call it light because that is how I saw it, when I was small one day I woke up late…

  • Changing Form

    Changing Form

    If you had to be an animal for a week, which one would you be and why? Back when I was in school, there was a time period I remember when fictional stories about people changing or morphing into animals were very popular. They were in popular books, they were in stories of popular movies…

  • Moving Forward

    Moving Forward

    What’s a piece of technology you’re convinced will exist in 20 years? Technology has been a gradual process. It did not just happen over a year or over a few months, it took us a long time getting here. This long time is something we often forget when we look at how rapidly things are…

  • Clicking Through

    Clicking Through

    Ajit was a bright young man; he was a teacher and the head of his subject department at a known school in the area. He was recently married and the thoughts of a beautiful and warm future occupied his mind. When Ajit would sit and prepare notes for the students in the evening, he would…

  • The Bitter Taste

    What’s a chapter of your life you’d title “The Hard Years” — and what got you through it? Our time, it has had its fair share of catastrophe and violence, it still continues to have in the present sadly. The problems, the issues, they never end. One day you are thinking, maybe the worst part…

  • A Cloudy Day

    Mr Choksi stopped his old scooter at the red light. The red light here was longer than the usual ones, but Mr Choksi kept the engine running as the old scooter did not have a self-start. Mr Choksi adjusted the messenger bag on his back to turn around and look at the sky, he could…

  • Untouched

    Untouched

    The bus passed through a road still wet from rain that had fallen half an hour before. Keshav looked happy, there was an effortless hint of a smile on his face. He was speaking less and being more thoughtful than usual. Naveen was used to Keshav wandering off in thought, Keshav did practise poetry like…

  • Where to stay

    Where to stay

    If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? I love to watch travel videos online. I always think that even with the means primarily being money, one cannot see everything and accepting that makes looking for the next alternative easier, which I found in all the creative travel videos the talented…

  • A Call away

    Is a little chaos actually good for us? The song playing was once Himani’s favourite and as she kept hearing it ahead, it once again called out to her heart. Himani added the song to one of her playlists in the music app. Himani was trying her best to distract herself. She was trying hard…

  • And it shifted forever ♾️

    What’s a lesson you’ve learned recently that shifted your perspective? Being with books for over five years professionally now, it has taught a lot of things, principles, values and shifted perspectives over the time and hours But today I want to discuss a particular learning that have shifted the dimension a lot . Read the…

  • Sleep Mode

    What do you do to improve your sleep? People have several things that they miss from their past, particularly from their childhood days. I certainly do, thinking of it as one of the most amazing childhoods out one has lived. Just yesterday I was sitting in my late maternal grandparents’ apartment and I could see…

  • When its a Mess

    When its a Mess

    Ranjit sat in his room going through some pages of information to prepare a report before he left for the office the next day. There were momentary glitches in the thoughts that distracted him. Ranjit was a very focused person otherwise and it took something more than the ordinary to bother him like this. Ranjit…

  • The Better Half of Things

    The Better Half of Things

    What’s the best way to deal with negative thoughts? You know those mornings when you wake up, they are nothing like the extraordinary ones but they don’t show any sign of being among the least pleasant as well. You go about your ritual to start for a new day and it is exactly when you…

  • Not Exactly Lost

    Not Exactly Lost

    What do you love now, that you hated when you were younger? What does it feel to look back in life, to look at all the time that has gone by. Sitting on a couch, or in a metro train, somewhere where the mind can be free for a while, free to trace back the…

  • Out of Sight

    What’s a time you followed your gut and it turned out to be exactly right? There was a time when even the metropolitan areas weren’t so crowded. One could still find a place to walk or drive around with peace of mind that was not interrupted by honking cars or rushing bikes. But the fear…

  • Summers

    You know summers have different stories to tell. Amidst the beauty of the longer time of morning compared to the nights where we live .. it’s hot and humid But we see more antique different birds now, more different seasonal fruits now and more of vibrancy But what I dislike is that it’s painful for…