Tag: Reflection
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Reversal Descent
Self progress.The greatest gift to one’s self.To work, to build to improve, to develop.To change for the better, to achieve a greater good.It’s a journey of self-discovery. To find, to acknowledge, to self rectify.Progress is hard. To insinuate a change, means breaking free of those desires, those things that hold you down. These whims, these…
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Mountain of Memory
I love being creative. It gives me a sense of purpose. You take something ordinary, something people take for granted, and you make it special. And that’s the thing, it’s special, to you. Maybe people won’t appreciate the effort, won’t appreciate the art, or might not even understand it. And that’s fine. What matters, is…
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Sunken Shores
A once majestic, conqueror of oceans, travelling magnitudes of distance at a time, now sits rusting along an abandoned coast. A sad sight indeed. It reminds me of this poem, by Percy Bysshe Shelley, titled “Ozymandias”, which goes like this: “I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—”Two vast and trunkless legs of…
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Circling Skies
I’ve been playing this Pink Floyd song over and over in my head for the last few days. It is not even that catchy, it just moves me for some reason. The song is Learning To Fly, and it is not one of the more popular of the Floydian discography. It tells a story of…
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Traveling in Troubled Times 6: Coup de grâce
Part 5. Desperate times, right. I’ve been lucky to travel often for school, and through the years I’ve amassed a small amount of airline miles, hoping to one day buy myself an upgrade in class division; to travel business class home from my graduation, a special treat for myself. This was not to be predestined. …
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Traveling in Troubled Times 5: Ruminate.
Part 4 Dubai International Airport. I’ve been several times over the years, and so have you. I’ve stayed for 1 hour, I’ve waited for 5. Once I missed my transit, but with a temp visa to leave, I saw pretty much all of Dubai in 12 hours. This time, no such saving grace. 15 hours,…
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Traveling in Troubled Times 4: Windscreen.
Part 3. All this, and I still beat the plane to the gate. They were delayed in Dubai, probably also due to the rigorous checks that had to be done. Hey, I’m not complaining, the more they check, the safer I am anyways, so why complain about someone trying to guarantee your safety? That’s why…
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Traveling in Troubled Times 3: Grounded
Part 2. We reached the airport precisely at 06:45. I had made sure to be prepared- At this point, I was fully kitted out in my mask(s) and PPE, and all my bags were tightly zipped up. We got our temps checked even before we entered the airport, and were given forms to fill, with…
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Traveling in Troubled Times 2: Isolate.
So by now, you realise that I was forced to travel during a time where everyone has to stay put. “I fear no man, but this, it scares me.” Or something along those lines. I was legitimately fearful- not for me, but for the family members back home, who had been heeding the instruction to…
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Traveling in Troubled Times 1: Sanitize.
Prologue. Travel. We love to travel. We cover great distances in a minuscule amount of time. We take our bags and passports, and we’re off. To infinity and beyond. Not any more. We now face a new kind of challenge. At first we feared the flying. What was this new fan-dangled metal tube? Dangerous right?…
