Author: Reena Saxena

Nature’s complex creation,

Man, right from formation,

To cessation,

A wide variety of emotions, he feels,

He deals,

With overthinking, things in his control and away,

Slowly, comparison, jealousy, baseless competition, in his self, they stay,

Trivial nothings to sleepless nights they make way,

Reality seems reel,

Fantasy seems the only way to heal,

Denial, only way of acceptance,

Wastage of time seeks no admittance,

Everything comes to a standstill,

Amidst, a battle of will.

75 words.

Acknowledgement :- Thank you Reena Saxena for running the Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 129 . For rules please refer here. Thank you all for stopping by and reading.

Once in a Lifetime made me think of the song by Talking Heads with that for the title. The lyrics in the song examine a person’s life through the choices and their responses to those choices. The song could be a template, where you could customize it with the experiences you’ve had based on your choices and the questions those choices and experiences raise. The reality is that each moment of our lives is a unique, converging intersecting opportunity, where our choices shift the configuration of the all. I think they call it the butterfly effect. I used to think that minutely examining past moments and trying to troubleshoot and learn from them was the most valuable thing to do to have a better quality of experiences in the future. The shocking realization that the now was being left out of the equation hit me hard right between the eyes…

Once in a lifetime

You’d only want it to happen once in your lifetime. The call from the doctor to say your recent pathology test results are in.

You know when they ring the news is never going to be good. I’ve yet to have a ‘once in a lifetime’ call telling me I am well, fit and healthy. I think such sentiments are taken for granted.

As we age our ‘once in a lifetimes’ centre around family and if we are lucky the opportunity to travel. Not around receiving news, you could easily find yourself sinking into the depths of depression as my friend says to me: if she was me and got the news I got she’d go to her bedroom and feel sorry and sook for the rest of time.

But I look at it as I can wake up each day, eat and do things, go…

Reena’s Exploration Challenge #129

EXPLORATION PROMPT 129

I invite you to explore either one or both of the following themes in your piece

1. Addiction
2. Depression

My face was distorted like a fish out of water, gulping for air.

At last, came a big procession of aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaachho! I thought my lungs will burst out and eyes will pop out. 

There was a slight fever so I had to take leave from the office for a few days.

To my surprise, everyone, except the sufferer, knew the remedy for it.

Came advice from friends, neighbors, and colleagues.

One thing was common they all came up with the herbal tea.

Ginger, pepper, Tulsi/Basil leaves tea, make a good concoction, add some milk and honey and drink several times.

Does it work?

No.

But I suffered from acidity and burning sensation in the food pipe.

I had not heard of black tea or green…

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i want to leave my mark
stake my claim
create a new reality

it’s a “once in a lifetime” shot
because there is only one life
with limited chances to emerging

before it’s too late
leaving the only option
to watch as dreams fade

Inspired by Reena’s Exploration Challenge #130