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The Curse of Being Normal

It is a nightmare of every middle-class guy to remain normal throughout his life. You know what’s ahead of you already because there is a roadmap handed over to you the moment you finish your schooling. You cannot revolt against your parents because they have loved you from the day you were born and they will never even dream of forsaking you into this cruel world. They have fed you with “Expert Level” culture and values which can never be formatted from your soul. Your sibling will be your partner-in-crime for most of your crazy adventures and even withhold from partaking in some of them. It’s when you hit puberty and certain hormones in your body begin to screw your system. That’s ‘Phase 1’ of entering WTF. You start feeling the cactus in your crotch, butterflies in your stomach and many other things in many other places. You just don’t share it all. Obviously, yours is a typically orthodox and reserved family and they don’t talk about sex with children. They tend to keep you...

Desperate Valentine

“Hope”, she said and I hoped “Nope”, she said and I groped. Everything that happened in between was a dream that I’d never seen. Our souls were made for each other, but our eyes said something else. I stood on barren lands waiting for rains while she collected seashells. “Well! That was a bit dramatic. Your poetry is getting very sick.” "You're too bright for a blackhole like me" "No! I'm too right for an asshole like you" Her words were creepier than mine, but then I thought, “Everything will be fine”. She’s just in an indecisive phase, and that’s why she hates my face. But then it dawned upon me that she’s born to live free. She had a million dates and I had none. I just wanted her to be the one. “Just forget about her”, my heart cried. “I’ll give it another shot”, and I tried. This was a desperate Valentine’s song You figure out what went wrong. When you want to smile and dream When you want...