Unravelling

by Preethi Nair

Pushpa also uses Crème de la Mer on her face. It costs around £200 a pot but if you look at Pushpa’s face, it is not really worth it.

Screaming

But I don’t have to worry about ageing too much: long life doesn’t run in my family. Everyone gets their one-way ticket by sixty-five.

She is so funny

Sometimes, all we ever need is just one person who believes in us.

“You can tell a lot by a man’s lips,” Ba once told me. “Don’t trust a man with thin lips.”

This is why i dont like fitz

We were watching the life cycle of the seahorse and their mating process when suddenly, the handle of our bedroom door turned. My mother-in-law walked in with two cups of tea and a sandwich. “Your favourite, my son: tomato, cucumber and pickle.” I was unsure of what to do as I was in my nightie and it felt very strange. She walked over to his side of the bed, placed the tray down on the bedside table and indicated to him to make space for her, which he did. I glared at him. He made this strange face back at me. She signalled for a pillow to lean against and he gave it to her. I stared at my husband again, but he said nothing.

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Is this normal? If you ever find yourself asking this question, please know that whatever you are asking about is not normal.

“He saw me, Tara, he really saw me, and he said he didn’t care how long it took for me to believe him; he would wait,”

What you are seeking is also seeking you’.

The author described people not really living their life but sleepwalking through it on autopilot, pretending to be happy, not realising the extent of their misery, boredom or death, even. Then something unexpectedly meets them on their path; it could be a book, a song, a person or something else. Many people don’t recognise whatever has been sent and continue along their journey with their eyes half shut – but for others, it saves them.

Don’t ever ask anyone’s permission to go for your dream because they can rob you of your enthusiasm even before you start.

It is a strange thing that the moment you take your attention off everything that is not working and put your energy and attention back in yourself, things rearrange themselves in an order that you could not have possibly designed.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words; listen’.”

“You need more than diet. I can feel that hormonal rage, Bhanu. You are very angry. I know you are upset with Sarah leaving; I did try to prepare you for that. Is everything okay with Hiten?” “He is a serial adulterer,” I said calmly. I said the words half-expecting her to be shocked but she responded in a matter-of-fact way that I should really have anticipated. “I know that, but is everything else okay? You are not in any major financial crisis, are you?”

Pushpa is so funny but like in an inappropriate way

Nobody sees the series of defeats that have shaped our lives.

Our lives are made up of a series of events that culminate in the big event. It’s not that one day you choose to leave your whole life behind.

We are invisible long before we are invisible, just like we are broken-hearted long before we are broken-hearted. We have betrayed ourselves long before anyone else betrays us.

I wanted to tell this story in the hope that you see that “unravelling” is not a thing to be feared but an opportunity for something else. That just when we think it’s all over, it’s only just beginning…