My blog is an year old!

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I have met amazing people in my life

People with great stories to share;

People with no anecdotes, just questions to ask

People who have seen war;

People who have felt pain

People who have known true love;

People who have been scorned

People with a dark sense of humor;

People with no sense of humor at all

People who have attained wisdom;

People who are still learning

People of all sorts!

But I met someone so different recently,

I met me.

I have so many amazing experiences to share 

And yet so many unanswered questions to ask

I have witnessed a war of emotions in my head 

And touched pain with bare hands

I have fallen in love 

And gotten my heart shattered

I make snarky comments all the time

And yet can not take a joke on most days

I have finally found the true essence of life

And I still don’t know the purpose of it all.

I have met amazing people in my life,

But I have finally met me!

I have my mother’s nose;

But they say my feet are as broad as my late dadu’s

I have spent hours looking at myself in the mirror;

Trying to find a reflection of my father, somewhere

But then I noticed my voice rises just like his when I am annoyed or angry or ecstatic

My first grade English teacher used to write her f’s and l’s in cursive;

So do I, unconsciously

I keep asking- “Does that make sense?” after everything I saw;

Just like my Psychology teacher does

This girl in my school once yelled in a crowded corridor if someone had a pad when I was 11;

I carry an extra ever since and have never hushed that word like I was expected to

I keep telling myself Jane Austen wrote- “I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine” for me and only me;

And I carry around Gulzar’s “तू किसी रेल सी गुज़रती है, मैं किसी पुल सा थरथराता हूँ” in my heart

I am shades of all these people; 

And yet a completely unique colour in myself.

You see, 

I have met amazing people in my life

And in meeting them, I have finally met me.