Strangers. Hearing this word brings to me different meanings. Unknown, distrust, distance, anticipation and caution. But one thing that holds the capability of melting these and taking them apart, their
Author: Gadah Alofisan
Anti-Gravity
The longest, the deepest, the only one I couldn’t figure out the reason why it’s reshaping my personality a lot, this is my current inner-self status. From all different statuses I’ve been through in my life, I can categorize this one I’m going through as the
My bond to reality…
*The 5th post in the 5 days writing challenge* The child in me used to believe she is a real princess. All she had was… Her golden curls which weren’t actually gold, but just a bit lighter than her relatives black and dark brown hair. Her big colorful dresses like the
My Secret Addiction
*The 4th post in the 5 days writing challenge* Don’t you enjoy beauty? Whether it is in nature, in smiles, in eyes, in acts of kindness, in perfect lighting, in magical notes, in warm feelings, in expressive paintings, in spectacular stories and innocent souls. You’ll find it absorbing the
Empty the bottles…
*The 3rd post in the 5 days writing challenge* Our interactions and communications with the world are always building on each other. They are always filling our bottles of characters, where between each couple of souls there lay two bottles, one for each. Between yourself and your mother, yourself and your father, yourself and your sibling, […]
Are you waiting?
*The 2nd post in the 5 days writing challenge* Everyone I’ve encountered in life seems like s/he is always waiting for something. A job, a news they’d die to hear, a food they crave, and the one and only thing we all are waiting for,
My 30 days challenge!
*The 1st post in the 5 days writing challenge* After watching Matt Cutts‘s TED talk “Try something new for 30 days” couple of weeks ago I got excited to start my own challenge! I thought the time to break my shyness and fear of trying new stuff has arrived. Change is mandatory as we all know, and […]
Why always the truth?
“Write what you know”, a Mark Twain’s piece of advise that won’t be followed in this post. As this is a glimpse of the mini journey in my head about the truth of what I know. We grow believing our bag of knowledge is getting heavier by our day-to-day exposure to reality. It grows full […]
An unstoppable swing
Do you know those moments when you are so absorbed in work that time leaves the equation? As tiring as they might be, don’t you find them sometimes relieving? Your brain handles one task, focusing on solving one issue, for one goal. I call this the
The Artistry of Feelings
“There is a voice that doesn’t use words, listen” – Rumi In one of those deep conversations I once had with a dear friend, the discussion of life’s main pillars and the coexistence of logic and sentiments in our creation has triggered something
Framed Glimpses 