Shards of Bards

My dear,                  I can only project for so long into the future's gateway, and so I'll try to make the most of this little time I have with you. Today, I'll tell you words my father never told me, and one you shouldn't tell your son if you deem it fit. Be everything you can be, son -- everything but me. Let my path only motivate you whilst you thread yours. Don't waste your time trying to start from where I left off; rather, start from the scratch and let your own experience, failures, mistakes, and successes shape you into someone not me. We are two unlike beings, no matter how much we may look alike.    You see, son, I only see when I close my eyes. For I believe that the greatest ideas are born in the most silent of nights, the darkest of times, and the moment our fears are at its zenith. And so, I've taught my eyes to grasp every treasure the dark holds. Yet again, this is only my belief. You have it in you to believ...

One minute silence.... Let's sit back and remember the days you spent moping about an unfruitful relationship; the moments you cried for its failure, and smiled at the thought of it succeeding... If this hasn't happened to you, then.... One minute silence... Sit back and gauge yourself for yours that's coming, if not now but sometime in the future. See also:  Dealing with depression. . No one is worth dying over, not even you yourself! The reason you only pass through bad relationships or never have relationships is so you can recognize the right one when such comes, at the right time. . Focus on what deserves your attention now, and act accordingly to your priorities with a smart sense of attitude. Early relationships are like twitter trends, they hardly stick around for a week and when they do, you'd have lost your taste in them already. Only it's not your data that'll burn this time, but your emotional being as a whole. . It's a minute now!...

I got a message from a special someone yesterday. It read, 'the best things in life are free!', then I just smiled. (The kind of smile you smile when you finally realize that what you've been tearing the house down, scouring for, was right in your hands!) Only, this time, I wasn't searching for anything.... It came searching for me!  Enough with the parables.  . The best things in life are what money can't buy; what money could never qualify to rent; what everyone is born with; and, what one can always have if one chooses to (positive thinking!). The best things in life are privileges. Simply put, the best things in life aren't actually things! They are traits, and resources like love, dignity, family, time, resilience and several many others!  . Money can't get you love, it can only get you what looks like it, and make you believe it's the real deal. And so, focus on the things that are greater than money in measure. The things that everyon...

Sarah walked briskly, away from the coffee shop and deep into the cold; half scared of the dark and all it beholds and yet half confident that it wasn't her a gang of teenage boys were calling. She stopped at the bus stop, sticking out her right arm, and making gestures at an oncoming cab. She realized in shock that her hands trembled. She stole a glance at the sky. No, not even an inkling of a star smiled at her. Her gaze fell back to the road. Sarah gasped! There wasn't any vehicle on the road. The cab must have passed her whilst she stood admiring the sky. Now, the cab was nowhere in sight, but the boys were. Scared, for a reason she couldn't even think of, she didn't know when she began to run.  Why am I running?,  She thought... No, there would be enough time for thinking. Later She then heard heavy footsteps following hers. Or maybe it was her heartbeat. And so, she placed a palm on her chest gently. No, it wasn't from there! It was from the ones now ech...

A line in one of Shakira's hit, Gazelle, did it for me this morning! "I won't give up, I won't give in, till I reach the end then I'll start again...... " . Crazy huh? She says here that after all the struggle and pangs of suffering, regret and setbacks she would be met with, the second she reaches her finishing line, she'll go back to start all over again! . No it's not crazy! That's confidence, motivation, positivity, optimism or whatever synonym you might choose to adopt.... The fact remains that it's whatever you attribute to your mind that it'll work towards. . Call me talkative, call me disturbing or maybe ancient... All because of my emphasis on positive thinking. . Dear, the world we live in today boasts of negativity in the highest order! And so, the little positivity we might exhibit today might do as little as make it neutral or as much as make it positive. . Imagine a world where pessimism, and suffering is nothing mo...