Category: Pain of existence

• 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…

  Iqra Aslam

  March 19, 2022

  Creative writing, Emptiness, Existential crisis, Existentialism, Existentialist, Nature, Nihilism, Nihilist, nostalgia, Pain of existence, People, Plants, Poem, poetry, Science

  Creative writing, existence, junk, Life, Pain of existence, Poem, poetry, poetry passions, poetry writing, waste, Writer’s life

• 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…

  Iqra Aslam

  January 30, 2022

  anxiety, Existential crisis, Existentialism, Existentialist, Pain of existence, Poem, poetry

  art, Creative writing, Existentialism, Poem, poems, poetry, poetry passions, poetry writing

• Unmovable

  One screen after another,I ogle.For all kind of riff raff,I google. Sometimes I just sit and wait,For something to occur.Alas, nothing ever happens.It is like a halting curse.If ever there is a stir,It is either too slow or terse. There are no experiences anymore,Not in the true sense of the word.It all seems too little,…

  Iqra Aslam

  November 3, 2021

  Nihilist, Pain of existence, poetry, Ranting

• A Problem to Every Solution

  ‘Solution’ when it means; to solveNeeds to go obsolete.Wasn’t language meant to beA means to communicate,To explain and articulate,Whatever it is that we feel? We kept on inventingWords over wordsIn the pursuit of sayingWhat this aching heart feltAnd what the senses sensed,Or the thoughts so clear,You could see right through themOr the hazy dream now…

  Iqra Aslam

  April 19, 2021

  anxiety, Creative writing, Curiosity, Deja vu, Depression, Emptiness, Faliure, Feelings, God, Longing, Lost, Madness, Moments, moods, Nature, Nihilist, Pain of existence, Passions, Past, People, Pessimism, philosophy, Poem, poetry, Psycosis, random thought, Rant, Ranting, Reality, Regrets, Sadness, Seeking, Stories, Story, Story tellers, story telling, Tell me a story, Trapped, Wants, Weird, Writing

  Poem, poetry, poetry passions, poetry writing, Poets of Pakistan

• 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…

  Iqra Aslam

  November 10, 2020

  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

  Creative writing, Existential crisis, Existentialism, Fiction Writing, Life, Pain, Pain of existence, Poem, poetry, poetry passions, poetry writing, Poets of Pakistan, Struggles of Life, Writer’s life, Writing

• Betrayal of the Betrayed

  Some days, the life stands at a still. The sun slowly melts into the coldness of night. One scene shifts into another and nothing happens. You were melancholic at point A and you stay that at point B. You just keep looking at the time changing — indifferent to its passage. It can start moving…

  Iqra Aslam

  June 22, 2020

  anxiety, Betrayal, Betrayed, Craziness, Crazy, Creative writing, dark, depressing, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Faliure, Farewells, Fate, Feelings, Indifference, Loneliness, Longing, Lost, Madness, Pain of existence, Past, People, Pessimism, philosophy, psychology, random thought, Rant, Ranting, Regrets, Reminiscence, Sad, Sadness, Search, Stillness, Stories, Story, Story tellers, story telling, The struggles of life, Time, Tragedy, Writing

  anxiety, Betrayal, Betrayed, Change, Creative writing, dark, Darkness, Pain of existence, Past, philosophy, Ramblings, random thought, Rant, Ranting, Sad, Sadness, Time, Writing

• 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…

  Iqra Aslam

  February 25, 2020

  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

  Creative writing, Life, Lost, Ramblings, Sad, Stories, thoughts, Writing

• Some Days are Just Dark

  And it keeps coming back to it This unfathomable darkness inside It keeps surfacing, time and again Nothing is right, we are all insane. Who can be happy ever? Not someone with a brain! Any reality thrown your way Take it but with a salt’s grain Why can’t we just freeze in a moment And…

  Iqra Aslam

  October 24, 2019

  Creative writing, dark, darkness depression, Depression, Emptiness, Faliure, Feelings, Heart breaking, Indifference, Lost, Madness, Pain of existence, People, Pessimism, Poem, poetry, Psychotic, Psycosis, random thought

• 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…

  Iqra Aslam

  January 5, 2019

  Book Recommendation, Book review, Books, Books and Authors, Cat’s Cradle, Douglas Adams, Edgar Allan Poe, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, Existential crisis, Existentialism, Existentialist, Gail Honeyman, Kurt Vonnegut, Maya Angelou, Orwell, Oscar Wilde, Pain of existence

  Book Blogging, Book Readers, BookRecommendations, BookReview, Books, BooksandAuthors, Douglas Adams, Erin Morgenstern, Existential crisis, Existentialism, Existentialist, Kurt Vonnegut, Maya Angelou, Oscar Wilde, Readers of Pakistan, The Night Circus

• 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

  January 2, 2019

  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

  Creative writing, Feelings, Life, Lost, personal experience, Ramblings, Sad, Short stories, Society, Stories, Story, Storytellers, Storytelling, Tell me a story, Writing