HYPOCRITES AND HATERS

                             -Timika Burton

You talk the good talk

You tell what you know

You think that you have all of the answers

You put on a real good show

You say not to do something

But you do it the same

When somebody else does it

You call them out of their name

You are lacking in areas but yet

You put down someone else,

You need to stop focusing on what I’m doing

Pay attention to yourself

You need to realize who you are

You will find out sooner than later,

You criticize and you judge

You are a hypocrite and a hater.

Why? Who are you?

Don’t walk around like your shit don’t stink,

Before you open your mouth

You need to stop and think.

Don’t hate me because I am beautiful

Don’t hate me because I am smart

Don’t hate me because I am always smiling

Don’t hate me because of the kindness of my heart

Don’t be mad at me because you are mean and

People don’t respond well to you,

Think about some of the things you say and

Some of the things you do

There are too many things going on

To be focusing on what I am doing

A personality or a sense of humor

Should be what you are pursuing.

MESSY ROOM

By Shel Silverstein

Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
His underwear is hanging on the lamp.
His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair,
And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp.
His workbook is wedged in the window,
His sweater's been thrown on the floor.
His scarf and one ski are beneath the TV,
And his pants have been carelessly hung on the door.
His books are all jammed in the closet,
His vest has been left in the hall.
A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed,
And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the wall.
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
Donald or Robert or Willie or--
Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear,
I knew it looked familiar!

LEECHES!!

I was so busy trying to rationalize everything in the grey area of life that I forgot sometimes life is just black or white. To be more specific I totally missed out on the black part coming and it entirely my fault. It not like I was an innocent caught by surprise, I have received my fair share of warnings yet I doggedly continued on the part of stupidity. It’s quite amazing how people can control their emotions so well that when it finally hits you as to who they are it hits you hard… like a ton of bricks! I was so busy being comfortable with the person that I failed to see not every sentence that came out of that ugly mouth was the entire truth. Who am I kidding? None of it was true!

Then I woke up, you have no idea how refreshing it is and moved on. It’s what I do best. Thankfully I am not one of the people who are stuck in a time capsule of nostalgic feelings. It was hard at first just as hard as trying to pull out a leech which is kind of an apt description anyway but I did it and Woohoo!!! There is a valuable lesson here which is don’t go looking for parts of grey when it is just black and white.

The sad part is the leech has moved on into sucking the blood of another prey. The only difference this time is the prey seems to have fallen for the leech. It would be quite funny if it wasn’t so pathetic and sad. I wish I could help the girl out but then when I look at her those feeling disappear immediately. I realize she is quite smitten and if I try to help I would be banging my head against a wall and I do not want to do that…I have a pretty head! It might sound cruel but she needs to learn it the hard way… learn that the world is full of leeches and falling for them is just about the worst thing you can do. Little does she realize that those sugary speeches of friendship is just the beginning. They are past that because now he takes her away for “alone time” and she tags along. All I can say is I really pity her. Then again, I don’t!!

This is dedicated to all my amazing my friends  that helped not be in the same pathetic state  and oh so gullible as the above mentioned character. Thank you people, for always being there… hitting my head and waking me up!!

The friends we meet on the path of life make the trip worth while.

She is one of the most dynamic people I have ever met. She is one of my best friends. Her name is Srividhya. She was the new girl in school when I was in the fifth standard. Being me I had scared off potentially everybody who knew me. That did not stop her from trying to get to know me. Till then I had friends who were sycophants and basically with me because they were either afraid or wanted something. And there she was... the new girl who tried to know me without caring about what she heard. I, who thought the world revolved around me couldn’t be bothered to talk to her or even be nice but she did not care.

Then came the sixth standard where everything changed. Everybody who I thought were my friends made my life miserable. Nobody wanted to be with me or to even be in the same space around me but strangely Vidya stood by me. She never taunted me. Not only that, she was also always with me without caring a damn about what people thought of her. That is when I decided to change. Be more like her.

We grew to be best friends. She is among the few people I truly care about and admire. She taught me not to be afraid, to stand up and speak for what I believed in no matter the consequences. And the best part is I know I can always count on her to be with me no matter who ever leaves me. Vidya is one of the most intelligent people I have ever met. She is someone who can be anything that she wishes to be. She never opts for the easy way but works hard to get what she wants. She has more values than anybody I have met all thanks to her great parents. She has the most amazing wit! One of the kindest and selfless people I have met she would rather opt for a night with her family than a superficial party. She loves to keep it simple and does not let anything complicate her life.

I was beyond shattered when I heard that she was moving. I suddenly realized how much I had been taking her for granted. I hated the very thought of going through normally without her with me. That’s where I was wrong. She now lives in Ajmer and constantly keeps in touch. But what I realized is that I am making the same mistakes with her that I already made once. She is so patient that she never tried to push it. I was so caught up in my own petty problems that I failed to be there for her when she needed me the most. Being in a new place with no one that she knows must have been an ordeal yet she never once complained to me and nor did I try to find out how she felt.

She is the most amazing person I have met and I hope to make it up to her no matter what. She has always been there for me and now it’s high time I start being the best friend that I am supposed to be. So am sorry Vidya. I hope you can give me another chance to be a better friend to you. Love you!

WHAT WE REALLY SHOULD DO….

There we go again… am sitting with my parents watching the interviews held with rape victims who have stood up with courage and refused to hide or blur their faces fearing censure from the society and they change the channel. The reason being that they feel distressed hearing the women relate their traumatic experiences. Am not totally insensitive as to not understand what my parents are feeling especially when they have two daughters but I still feel that no matter what people should watch such programs, understand the pain that these women underwent and the way society never treats them the same. A woman strong enough to speak out about the traumatic experience that she underwent is immediately labeled as arrogant, “modern”. What people are ever ready to forget is she herself has undergone so much agony and all she needs now is love and support not the unwanted criticism and judgment. Admire the courage that these ladies show people!! Get your head out of the muck and treat them as icons for mitigating such incidents in the future. Have the decency, if not to support at least to treat them with respect. Don’t insult them by trying to compensate what they have suffered with pity and money. The brutal rape that took place in the capital has got so much attention but what about the others that go unnoticed every single day?? Aren’t they just as important as the one that took place recently?

Humanity requires the whole procedure of giving a human a second chance but everything has its limit. You cannot give the people who have destroyed an innocent girl’s life with such animalistic brutality. Hanging such men would be abrupt... definitely not what they deserve but chemical castration on the other hand is one of the serious solutions. These men who did not think twice before taking the girl’s life deserve this.

It would really help if the government would take immediate action but who am I kidding? How easy it is for them to forget that it could easily have been someone in their family who could have gone through the same trauma? Of course it is easy to forget when they have three-four people guarding all their loved ones. Am sure they will just drag it out as they do usually hoping this is also one of the protests that will blow over. Prove them wrong!! Please don’t let her have died for nothing. Fight! Do not back down. Don’t treat this as some other topic. Show the government their actual place. Show that they are nothing without “us”- the public!!