Here's to another year!

Remember in huge roller coasters, there is the initial slow jolting to the top before the big dive? That's the feeling I get on New Year's eve. A moment to dwell on the fact that you are about to plunge into a roller coaster ride.

Once the year starts, the days fall into their usual rhythm, or the unusual chaos that life brings, that I forget it's a new year. It is life as usual filled with it's flavors.

For me new year's eve is exciting, like the slow jolting to the top of a ride. It's a moment of calm where I gather myself for the ride.

We actually went around the sun again! That still amazes me.  I'm all set for another ride.

#ChennaiRains #ChennaiFloods

Sometimes life drags you in a different path that the
past flashes like a distant memory.
Makes me wonder which is real - the past or the present.
Responsibilities weigh me down.
A new life filled with wonder.
As I try to find myself anew,
staggering between the worlds,
my adulthood continues leaving my youth behind.

A call for help from the past life
stumps me helpless.
Memories rush back,
of cherished days, moments, places and people
of the city that is so close to heart,
making me wish I could relive some.
I scramble from afar,
thankful and in awe of the helping hands.


- My thoughts, as the city where I had spent the best years of my childhood and youth in, reels in agony because of heavy rains and floods.