Sadness is not being able to open up even when your insides is full to its brim. Happiness must feel weightless. Tears come when you know you can stop them from flowing but you still let them roll out because if they remain inside, your mind turns acid and your outside becomes sour. Times when sadness is around you, you may have many around you but for you there is no one. Gazing into the empty space with hope that it will break into some warm light and will soak you into the blissfulness. But sadness is like a setting sun, all you've is the drowning feeling. No one to pull you out. It becomes a horror show when sadness give way to disgust. To be disgusted by your own state and disgusted by everything that feels nothing for you. You hate yourself more because of the hate that is harbouring guilt. You are restless because sadness, disgust, hate and guilt is all you're filled with. Hope seems like a fucked up agenda because you know the only way out is to keep dragging on this path, through all this murky, smelling souls.
I don’t remember when it happened but somewhere and at some point in time, I stopped believing in love stories. It so happened that once the idea of true love went missing in my heart, I started to drift away and got lost in the market of cheap entertainment, it was instant gratifications that robbed me of the opportunities of waiting with dignity for real love. Words came easy to me once when describing any piece of art, literature, or music that moved me. I used to find my innocence when I found stories that were so beautifully unreal that they seemed divine. But lately, love stories appeared cornier and cornier and the stories became so predictable that even if I watch a love story (which I generally avoid), it fails to move me. Today, after watching the late-night show of Sita-Ramam, I feel I have found that old believer in me. I am glad he is still there, believing in the idea of magical love. This film was so complete in experience that it will remain with me. Sita-Ramam is...
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