Category: Existentialism
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Cannot Engine
98.5% of our DNA is junk, it is the rest that makes me a clunk. 5% of the Universe is visible to us whatever remains is darkness. And then there is sunlight 1% used by plants to live and photosynthesize. Even much less of it becomes biomass moving through the cycle of life. Plenty of sperms and menstrual blood go down the drain with faeces and worms; remnants of Mama’sdelicious…
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An Accolade to Talent (or the lack of it)
What is this need to mimicEvery good song that has ever been sung,Repeat, every idea that resonates with you at any level. Draw or paint againWhat’s been done already Either at the hand of an artistOr by God HimselfWhat is this obsession With creation and more so with recreation But is anything truly original?Hasn’t it…
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Would you Believe You?
Would you believe You If You told youThat You were happy. If You walked up to you one day,Like you toddle up to a friend or a stranger And said straight to your face: I am happy I am satisfied I have passionsAnd desires Would you believe that?You telling youThat the boy You lovesTruly cares…
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anxiety, Craziness, Crazy, Creative writing, Curiosity, darkness depression, depressing, Depression, Desire, Emptiness, Existential crisis, Existentialism, Existentialist, Faliure, Fate, Feelings, Heart breaking, Insanity, Loneliness, Longing, Lost, Love, Nature, Nihilism, Nihilist, nostalgia, Pain of existence, Passions, Past, People, Pessimism, Poem, poetry, Psycho, psychology, Psychotic, Psycosis, random thought, Rant, Ranting, Regrets, Reminiscence, Sad, Sadness, Search, Seeking, Short story, Stories, Story, Story tellers, story telling, The struggles of life, Time, Tragedy, Trapped, Women -
A Price to Pay
Note: SPOILER ALERT for The Stranger, Slaughterhouse-Five, Rumplestiltskin and The Bell Jar You see a flawed system for so long you become comfortable with it. You accept the life you are given. You even stop pointing out what is wrong and unjust. You lose hope. You borrow Vonnegut’s philosophy of, ‘so it goes’ and respond…
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Alber Camus, anxiety, Camus, Crazy, Creative writing, dark, depressing, Depression, Drama, Existentialism, Fate, Feelings, Indifference, Kurt Vonnegut, Loneliness, Longing, Lost, Madness, Moments, moods, Nihilism, Pain of existence, Pessimism, Psycosis, random thought, Regrets, Sad, Sadness, Search, Seeking, Stories, Story, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, The Stranger, The struggles of life, Tragedy, Trapped, Wants -
My 2018 in Books!
I know it is rather late for 2018 wrap ups but I wasn’t planning to do one in the first place. However, with every “top 2018 books I read” blog flooding my feed on almost all platforms, I decided to do mine too. Then, Goodreads summarized my last year reads in such a nice way…
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Tell Me a Story…
Hello peeps! Sorry for being MIA for so long. But the promise of a story still stands. It is not much of story and more of a jumbled up thoughts of a disturbed mind on a long sleepless night. Without further ado, here you go: The Miracle of a Dream She was standing in a…
Iqra Aslam
anxiety, Craziness, Crazy, Curiosity, dark, dark humor, darkness depression, Existentialism, Existentialist, Faliure, Fall, Farewells, Fate, Feelings, fiction, Flash Fiction, Madness, moods, Nihilism, Nihilist, Pain of existence, Passions, Past, People, Pessimism, philosophy, Protection, Psycho, Psychotic, Psycosis, random thought, Random through, Reality, Sad, Sadness, Search, Short story, Society, Stories, Story, Story tellers, story telling, Tell me a story, Tragedy, Trapped, Writing, Writing Fiction -
My Entangled Thoughts
I can’t speak for other people because their minds are not on the list of places I had checked into but my own thoughts, I have visited often. Thus, I know the questions that arrive in this desolate place I call my brain. They used to be simpler and consulting a parent, a friend or…
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anxiety, Craziness, Crazy, Creative writing, Curiosity, dark, darkness depression, Deja vu, depressing, Depression, Emptiness, Existential crisis, Existentialism, Existentialist, Feelings, Indifference, Insanity, Insomnia, Loneliness, Longing, Lost, Madness, Moments, moods, Nature, Nihilism, Nihilist, nostalgia, Pain of existence, Past, People, Pessimism, Plants, Poem, poetry, Psycho, psychology, Psychotic, Psycosis, random thought, Reminiscence, Sad, Sadness, Stillness, Stories, Story, Story tellers, story telling, Stranger than Fiction, The struggles of life, Time, Tragedy, Trapped, Writing Fiction -
“A Life of Pretense”
I laugh a lot. People take me for a jolly person. it is rather sad that 90% of my giggles are to please my fellows only. I do not restrict my insincere show of emotions to laughing. I have cried for others too. Some of my tears were genuine, others? not so much! If I ever…
Iqra Aslam
Absurdisim, anxiety, Crazy, Creative writing, dark, depressing, Depression, Emptiness, Existential crisis, Existentialism, Existentialist, Faliure, Fate, Feelings, fiction, Heart breaking, Indifference, Insanity, Loneliness, Longing, Lost, Madness, moods, Nihilism, Nihilist, Pain of existence, People, Pessimism, philosophy, random thought, Reality, Regrets, Sad, Sadness, Stories, Story, Story tellers, story telling, The struggles of life, Time, Trapped, Weird, Wisdom, Writing, Writing FictionAbstract, Abstract Expressionism, Addictions, anxiety, Authors, Creative writing, dark, Darkness, Death, depressing, Depression, Disturbing, Existential crisis, Existentialism, Existentialist, Feelings, fiction, Fiction Writing, Flash Fiction, Life, Lost, Pain of existence, personal experience, philosophy, Ramblings, random thought, Sad, Short stories, Stories, Story, Storytelling, Struggles of Life, Tell me a story, thoughts, Time, Tragedy, Trapped, Writer’s life, Writing -
The Demise of the Fittest
‘Super’ is what they called me ‘Magical’ was how I was described when all failed, I was the one who survived. I saw my fellows wither, For they could not compete against the changing times. ‘Unfavourable conditions,’ they cried Then said the world ‘Goodbye!’ I endured it all, season after season. I grew stronger, With…
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Absurdisim, Creative writing, depressing, Evolution, Existential crisis, Existentialism, Existentialist, Faliure, Fate, Genetics, Goodbyes, Indifference, Loneliness, Lost, Natural Selection, Nature, Nihilism, Nihilist, Pain of existence, philosophy, Poem, poetry, random thought, Regrets, Sarcasm, Stories, Story, Story tellers, story telling, Survival of the fittest, Tell me a story, The struggles of life, Time, Tragedy, Writing, Writing Fiction -
Fiction Friday-Remembering Camus!
My son had brought me here. It was quite a long time ago. My joints didn’t know what arthritis was back then. Lately, the pain defined them. It was around this time of the year, though which year and on what date, are the details that had escaped me. The one thought that I could…
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Icklings 