It's meant to be.

I cried last night, and all I wanted was to be in his arms.

I cried 'cos I was weak, even insecure, and he had hurt me.

I wanted to feel special again, because that is something the world is constantly taking away from me.

I wanted to feel like I mattered to him, because in everyone else's lives I was inconsequential, and I knew it.

I wanted to feel like the reason someone was happy, 'cos of late I have been feeling so self-centred.

I wanted to feel like I had given to someone, unconditionally, 'cos of late I have been feeling so selfish.

I wanted, I wanted, I wanted..... just to feel, so I could live and love my life again.

I wanted to feel like I had someone special, because I knew I did, and I did not want the world to be constantly taking that away from him.

I wanted him to feel like he mattered to me, and more so than anyone else, just in case he was feeling like he didn't to anyone else.

I wanted him to know that he was the reason I was happy, and that he was the most caring, most generous person I had ever met.

I wanted to tell him that he had given me the greatest joys of my life and the most valuable moments ever.

I wanted.... to end these strange silences that have gradually crept up between us, to bury all the meaningless tears and suspicions. I wanted... so we could together feel life again, to support our dreams, to love each other (in order) to love life and everything that comes our way.... just the way it used to be, just the way it's meant to be....

All They Want...

Terror... innocent lives destroyed.. but on both sides, not just one. How do you think it feels? To have a loved one killed... to know that they were misguided to death.To know that everything you did for them, and everything you shared, all stands void... all for a lie.

Blind, unshakeable faith in any religion, be it Islam, Christianity, or Hinduism can be dangerous as all religions are subject to perception and allow space for one’s evil tendencies to thrive.

It is disturbing that oftentimes, people use the ambiguity of religion as a means to forward their own interests, and to instill and imbibe in others their twisted interpretations of religious teachings. It is excruciating in fact.

But when I hear a 'terror' suspect's mother saying "If my son is guilty of this crime, guilty of having taken so many lives, I will never forgive him... even if the excuse was Islam itself. Because I know for sure that my mazhab does not teach violence and causing pain!", I know that they do not deserve the humiliation and suspicion they always get.
I know that they do not deserve to be lynched and burnt because of the 'misguided few'.
I know that they do not deserve to hear from 'us' that they deserve what they got, for what 'they' did.

All they want of you is to be outraged at the suffering inflicted upon 'them' and 'us' alike, to demand accountability, to stand up and question, to ensure punishment for the hurt caused, to just be compassionate and empathise, to not say that they deserved what they got, to recognise that they too are human and to feel their pain and loss every time their religion is abused, and to respect how sorry they are that this happened! That they or their faith did not endorse causing misery, that they were but victims themselves.

I know that not just for their sake, but for the sake of mere existence itself.
Despite being an atheist, I say this for the sake of what every religion advocates, and I say this against the perverted, pychotic minds that misuse their religion against others.