HeyJaredOnce Upon My Mind...
A collection of stories from my mind’s quiet corners and life’s noisy streets, I guess…
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Two Forks and A Slice (opens the original)
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“Here,” I pushed the pizza box towards my friend. “Have the last one.”“It’s okay. You have it.” He pushed it back towards me with a smile.In the last two hours that we had spent together, this was probably the first time I could sense a slight heaviness in the air between us. I knew he wanted it. He wanted me to have it. Neither of us, however, wanted to make the first move.I hadn’t really noticed the parlor around us till then, but the sudden silence between us seemed to amplify its hum, making
The Seclusion Situationship (opens the original)
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“I am sure we can find a way to sort this out. There has to be…”“We have known each other for years, Ankesh. If there was something we could sort, we would have done it already.”Silence.“It’s time we end this. I am sorry. I really am.”There are moments when everything goes silent. There is a constant, endless beep in my ears that keeps growing with every passing moment, as if announcing a time-out from processing any further information because what’s in hand seems way out of control.The call go
Left, Right and Everything in the Middle (opens the original)
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“I am happy being apolitical.”He took a big bite of the burger that oozed out some of its sauces across the edges of his lips. A comfortable smile spread across his face as he continued to chew on it, and I sat there, in front of him, trying to figure out if it was the burger that made him feel this content or the sheer liberty that settles in when one claims to not have any attachments with politics.I did respond, but not to the statement he made. I just chose to shift the direction of the conv
Why Wake Up (opens the original)
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My alarm jolts me out of my slumber every morning.The system is persistent, I will give it that. I keep hitting the snooze button, and it keeps waking me up. Annoyed, I finally choose to push my body up from the comforts of my bed that have wrapped me in a blanket of convenience.Before I can completely step off the bed, my gaze shifts to the dark screen of my mobile phone. Even though my hand reaches for it much quicker with every passing day, as I approach it, I already know what awaits me.The
Off the Legend (opens the original)
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The second hand of my table clock completes yet another circle as the pen between my fingers dances, as if shaking it hard enough might somehow drop some of my thoughts onto the diary and help me put together a newsletter. Every week. Every single week, there comes a moment when I sit at my table, chasing one of those sixty-thousand-plus thoughts that gush through my brain every twenty-four hours, desperately trying to find the words to convey one of them in all its originality.Occasionally, my
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