Ikigai is the cruellest document in history, being peddled as a self-improvement tool. What you love may not be what you are good at, or what the world needs. What you can be paid for is an entirely different ballgame. The profession or vocation has nothing to do with passion or mission. It is simply … Continue reading Ikigai
Welcome back! PROMPT #447 I was reading a quote by Albert Camus and stopped at a sentence. Communication is impossible with slaves Source: The Marginalian AI generated this image to match the line with certain inputs from me. The image shows a man whose mouth is sealed by a padlock called "Ideology", but he is … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #447
Welcome back! PROMPT #446 Here are some quotes with a twist. Choose one or more to inspire your piece. We are all made of stardust, trying to remember the sky. Reality is a mirror polished by imagination. To know yourself is to meet a stranger everyday. There is no restriction on the length of the … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #446
Welcome back! PROMPT #445 The theme for this week's creative endeavours is FICTION The format need not necessarily be fiction, though there is no bar on using the form. What constitutes fiction in the post-truth era? How thin or distinct are the lines between fact and fiction? Do the disclaimers that all characters are fictional … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #445
Welcome back to another week of inspired writing! PROMPT #444 We have two images below to serve as inspiration. You may choose one or both. The image by Nellie Adamyan is borrowed from Unsplash. It shows a sculpture of a woman mounted on a wooden block, with her head out and body inside a triangular … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #444
Slogans are designed to make an emotional appeal. The slogans I heard in my student days reverberated in my mind for decades, especially the one that said: “Justice Delayed, Justice Denied.” I look back at the events in life and feel that certain things happened, but not at the right time. The power that wrote … Continue reading Going with the Flow
Welcome to yet another week of a weekly routine! PROMPT #443 This week, I would like you to focus on the MUNDANE and make it sound as boring or as interesting or as value-adding as you want. Would you give it up if you can? Is it the baseline for your existence? Do you see … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #443
Welcome back! PROMPT #442 We have a few common words to ponder about this week, and use those to write something. It is not necessary that the word is the theme of the piece. Just a mention speaks a lot about how you treat it. Light — What truths emerge when the weight of light … Continue reading Reena’s Xploration Challenge #442
PARATAXIS It is hazy. It has no definable colour or shape. It has a pattern – known but never acknowledged. It is the web of tiny lies spun like a yarn to clothe truth. It is the black hole that will explode rather than reveal its secrets. The Emperor’s new clothes are the grandest spun … Continue reading Webs
Perfection is nothing but a goal, and goalposts can shift. It feels good when I move it and challenge myself to excel at something I’ve not tried before. It breaks and bends my effort like a heavy boulder on the back when imposed, and we get busy rationalising why it is all wrong and will … Continue reading The Perfect Myth
