"Feelings are intense, Words are trivial"
- Sundry Fires In Rain
- Jan 9, 2023
- 6 min read
Updated: Aug 17
If you think silence is validation, laughter is agreement, or observation is weakness, that’s..... not surprising.
"Okay, let me guess the catch. Money? Time? Tactic? Leniency? Gimmicky things? " "Nope. Try again." “Favors? Connections? A secret handshake?" "Well, It costs trust”. Proves a shred of sense left.
The epitome of a superficial social player. Three days, three faces, and constant emptiness. A condescending remark here, a calculated slight there…none of it escaped, it stuck. Poisoned by neglect and venomous need for control. Better delusion than deceit masked by societal niceties. Scars left are invisible, not nonexistent. Voice with a domineering undertone that I can't hear myself. Grounded in toxicity that could enchain the ambience.
She let herself be free…just her. She opened up and it was used against her.
Tethered to something, yet connected to nothing.
“Everyone thinks they’re irreplaceable these days,” he quipped. “Eh, everyone? More like a drop in the ocean,” she replied.
She’s her own ocean now, and she wouldn’t miss a drop.
Risk and disc. It is not going to feel brisk. Those emptied entities coming out of the structure. Protrusion. Herniation.
Tests only happened after the pain turned into torture. Patience has a limit. The doctor took one look and criticized the body. Parenting got dragged into it. “Who do you think you’re talking to?”, that stayed in her head. An estranging stranger saying it was bad enough. A stranger who nearly broke a leg doing ‘tests’ was worse. The nurse was sane.
Newsflash: herniated discs at sweet sixteen.
That doctor was one anecdote. The institutions themselves leave a bad taste. Health is equally important to all. No one should be a catalyst for one’s assumptions.
“So how was flexibility meant to happen?”
“It cannot be changed now. It is just part of the learning process.” The mistake was clearly pointed out, and it was even acknowledged. So what stopped it from being corrected when it would have made a difference? When excellence has been emphasized across every area, identifying a mistake is not redundant because correcting it is inconvenient. Thus, the idea of vouching for one person over the other becomes questionable. Vouch equally. Accept it, rectify it, and then move on.
“Yes, you are right, but I will only accept it if I see how you arrived there.” Arrived where? At a problem setup with mistakes in it, which had to be noticed and resolved on the spot? When something conflicts with the concept itself, some minds stop to resolve it. A flaw that should have been caught before the problem reached anyone solving it had to be caught in real-time. And identifying that issue isn’t a failure to work around it. There had been consistently impressive presence before this too, from deriving promptly to engaging constantly. Work spoke for itself.
Trying to stand with one foot on each boat will only stretch you thin, and worse. The less you give attention where it’s needed, the more you end up holding onto what isn’t.
Either a complete shutdown, focusing only on what genuinely matters within your realistic scope, or a full-scale, high-impact burst can work, especially when it comes to things like driving change, testing trust, or understanding who’s helpful for real. In other words, either silence or boom. The latter tends to dilute future attempts in the same direction, although it gives you clarity on what’s really going on.
Imagine if the consumer has to do the producer’s job, and the producer has to do the consumer’s. The denominator is already small, and if half the numerator is faulty within an unreasonable time span, this is not fun. The few people with genuine sense, grip, grit, and drive will drift from one thing to another, delve into what is wrong, and there is nothing wrong with that.
Well, maybe it is time to care about at least one element of how life feels: eliminating darkness within oneself. That is what knowledge means.
“If one starts, another does. This is gonna set a bad example!". What caused this though? It is rare that people in our lives do the whole “just wait until…” thing in a way that feels like they are trying to dampen our mood or trivialize what you’re venting about. And if you do, no one will see the years that led to it.
Silence is misunderstood. It is not the absence of sound. It does not mean keeping your mouth shut. It stays until truth is spoken. It can hold several thoughts at once while searching for resolution. It can listen harder than a million words. It is a watcher. It means your inner self is not drowning in అలజడి, and more importantly, not spreading that unrest into the world around you just to cause reckless ripples, especially where children breathe and age rests. This power is difficult to touch, but impossible not to feel.
Loved everywhere he goes for his compassion and tact. Simplicity and quiet confidence add abundance in thought itself. The world likes non-conforming rebels and original folks, but its a double-edged sword if you already deal with messed up people and still think everything will be alright. To quietly serve the society without risking one’s philosophy and...life is not as risky. As someone who brings worldview a lot in the discussion, it's very difficult to not do the good things, the right things. Even when you share your designs, act on it and invest your own for the greater good, it rarely works out because you only can do so much. Most efforts stop at about 60% of the stage of implementation, because everyone wants a piece of the pie and ‘speed’. Every now and then, you ask him the same question but you were already given the answer. Those who do the work, who quietly live the philosophy, carry a silence that clears the fog just so you deepen it once you start seeking an inclusive vision. It stands close enough to guide, and distant enough not to interfere. And you, like overflowing pots that remain contained, place every necessary act where it belongs, i.e. some in the open, where everyone sees, and others beneath the surface, where the weight lies.
The more you guide, the less you seem to lead. Subtle facilitation! A tuning fork as a lighthouse.
Detachment is not escapism.
We do not excuse harm. But we understand descent. Understand that the world will not always come to save you, and so, perhaps, you act. Neither a hero nor a villain. Maybe this is to finally see what we are doing to each other? But they will not repeat what was said. Why? Because it was senseless? No, because it was uncomfortably coherent and it pointed to things that are not supposed to be named, i.e. the cruelty of systems, and the invisibility of pain. In time, support will be reframed into “just good looks” to diminish the cause. Smokes and mirrors. It offers caricature instead. Why simplicity and complexity that make someone a human?
అదేదో అసలేం లేకపోయినా ఓకే, కానీ మిడి మిడి జ్ఞానం తో నోరు కన్నా గొప్ప జోడి ఎక్కడ ?
She’s not reaching for the stars either, but she feels backtracked by the so-called destiny. Alway put 4× more efforts to get a remotely similar outcome.
Moral of the matter? Maybe not too obvious. Lay a red carpet for everybody because you care and shine a light on people. It's not so easy or common to do that. Salute to you if you do! No matter what, you do you!
Humility feels unreal, yet real,
A silent root the soul can feel.
No less fertile than eternity,
No less still than serenity.
To lose what others wear with pride
Can carve a hollow place inside.
The aftermath may give no clue
Of what was useful, false, or true.
A blood-flood waits, but never slow,
It is no soft or feathered flow.
It moves through thought, through word, through vein,
Through choices carved by silent pain.
Veins in vain may turn to vane,
And learn the direction of their pain.
Perseverance, fierce and early,
Felt severe, immense, and worldly.
Silence is not limited to vigilance,
It is patience masked as diligence.
And if fear arrives to scare you,
Let it stay long enough to care for you.


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