darkacademiamanor

[darkacademiamanor]

Marzi se jeene ki bhi main

Kya tum sabko arzi doon

Matlab ki tum sab ka mujh pe

Mujh se bhi zyada haq hai

Tum mere jeene ki aadat ka kyu ghot rahe dum

Besalika main, uss gali ka main

O Eco-friendly, nature ke rakshak

Main bhi hoon nature

Tu kaate mujhe

Rewaazon se samaajon se

Kyun baate mujhe iss tarah

[darkacademiamanor]

Dear Chris McCandless,

Wait, sorry let me start once again. I forgot your hate towards societal norms that don't make sense.

To a person I never knew personally hence isn't dear to me,

"I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters."

It's been more than a decade since I got to know about a somebody in this world, the world that strives to fit us inside a clock from the moment we are born, to make us disciplined to an extent that we forget the thin lines between being a human and a robot until we end up losing all the humanly traits we once carried.

"I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one."

Is it good to have a career? It is one of the many materialistic needs of life. You need money to have a good life and to find happiness- at least, that's what we are taught since childhood. An idea reiterated to us countless times until it settles into our minds like a seed that grows even when we attempt to suppress it.

But it is extremely hard to conform to a society where you gain something as profound as knowledge only for monetary gains. When you see the quest for knowledge and wisdom outshined by the struggles to become a money-making machine, you wonder if this is the life you want.

With all the ups and downs in one's existence, they seem to lose parts of themselves only to heal them with new ones. If the entire essence and personality of a person shift constantly, how are they supposed to like one solitary thing for the rest of their lives?

I guess what they say is true- "If you are not at war with yourself. You are at war with others." I think that is one of the essential reasons why most of us have a substantial portion of our hearts filled with regret that we need to scour in the depths of our souls to find a few moments worth cherishing. We often blur the lines between being in denial and blaming others for the choices we never made.

Are we too living our "lies" somewhere?

From giving us a name to deciding how our life is supposed to work, each of the little things of our life is a preconceived concept. All of these trivial things gradually add up to design our entire life.

I know changing your name to "Alexander Supertramp" did not necessarily alter the reality of life. Nevertheless, it gave you the contentment of taking control of your life. But do we actually do anything to change our lives? Each day, most of us think that we are going to live a unique life. But how many of us actually go out of our way to grab what we want?

It is perhaps the most courageous lesson you taught us- the first step you take towards being the master of your life is the hardest but it is only in that one insignificant step that the rest of our life can be changed for the better or for worse.

"Happiness is only real when shared."

In a society that is near to being morally dead, you think about leaving everything behind and not believing in the joy that human relationships bring. The betrayal, lies and deceits we hear in the world more than the words of comfort from our loved ones make us ponder whether it is worth taking the risk.

Your story is a masterpiece because it has its own share of missteps. You were able to uncover the deceptions and lies of the people, however, you forgot the comfort of a human bond.

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“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Les Temps Modernes, vol 1 (October 1945)

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Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

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The amount of tears that fall down my face to make someone happy💕

stay alive.

Not because your mother will cry at your loss but because the sun will come out tomorrow and you will not be there to appreciate it. Stay alive because the path will go somewhere exciting and you will not be able to experience it.

Stay alive because your favourite band might release a new song. Or your favourite series might be renewed for a new season. Stay alive because there are twenty thousand more series to hold you in your gloomy days.

Stay alive.

Not because your father will blame himself his whole life but you have a whole world out there for you to see. Because your coffee mug is sitting there waiting to be filled.

Stay alive because your older self is waiting for you to grow up as a wonderful person your father may not be. Stay alive because all the rights are waiting for you to fix them because nobody but you can do it.

Stay alive because the moon is there for you. The stars in the darkest of night need you to look up and admire them.

stay alive.

Not because your siblings will hold your clothes and remember you but your clothes need you to remove their emptiness. The next burger you are going to eat is waiting for you out there. Stay alive because a part of the air around you is reserved only for you to breathe.

Stay alive because a spot in front of the Eiffel Tower where you are standing needs to be in your album. Your streets are waiting for you to come for a walk with headphones on. Your favourite songs are waiting for you to give them that unmatchable attention.

stay alive.

Not because your lover will lose his/her half, but because of those roses in the garden waiting with love to be plucked for love. For that unwritten parchment that wants to be painted with your affection even if no one ever reads it.

Stay alive for the imaginations you have before your sleep and for the dance under the sky you want. For the days you laughed at your own jokes and the days you could not love yourself more.

Stay alive for your bedroom because it will never be the same without you. For the winds because they will never touch any skin in the same way. For the sky because no one will go crazier as you do seeing it changing colours. For the moon and the stars, you see so adoringly that they shine a little brightly for you. For all the songs who you have given a place in your heart. For all your favourite series you carry with you. For all the clothes you wear daily. For the rays of sun you love on your face and for the life that beats within you.

Stay alive for you.

[darkacademiamanor]

Famous Writers on Memories

1. "Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading"–Kazuo Ishiguro

2. "Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still, you'll find an edge to cut you"– Mark Lawrence.

3. "Memory is the diary we all carry about with us" –Oscar Wilde

4. "What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?" –S.J. Watson.

5. "There are memories that time does not erase. Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable"– Cassandra Clare.

6. "One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory" –Rita Mae Brown.

7. "Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget"– Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

8. "Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist" –Guy de Maupassant.

9. "I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes–Vladimir Nabokov.

10. "Touch has a memory" –John Keats.

11. "Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!" –John Irving.

12. “Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin"― Brian Ruckley.

13. "Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled"― Jonathan Safran Foer.

14. “And so their memories took on potential, which is of course how our greatest nostalgias are born”― Mohsin Hamid.

15. "Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces between any given two people"― Jodi Picoult.

16. "Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory" –Dr. Suess.

18. "Every man's memory is his private literature"–Aldous Huxley.

17. "Memory is the scribe of the soul" –Aristotle.

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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

-Haruki Murakami

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― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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"When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about."

-Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the shore

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― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”

— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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— Kafka on The Shore, Haruki Murakami

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“We’re so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past are no longer in orbit around our minds. There are just too many things we have to think about everyday, too many new things we have to learn. But still, no matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion, memories we can never rub away. They remain with us forever, like a touchstone.”

— Kafka On the Shore, Haruki Murakami

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“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it — to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.”

— Haruki Murakami, from Norwegian Wood

(via lunamonchtuna)

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― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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Whenever I hear someone saying that you cannot decide what others do, you can only control what you are doing, I always feel good. Because even when people left me I can still think that my mistake was caring, my mistake was kindness, my mistake was being loyal, of being honest and truthful.

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In the beginning, you notice the sky, then the sky reveals its colour, then it unwraps the clouds for you then the sun rays cascade the sky and then you discern things that were not there hitherto but yet were there from the beginning.

If you are adrift in the trivialities of life, the world abandons you, unmoored in the middle of the sea. If you open your eyes truly and notice the world, the world manifests itself– it unwraps the layers around it and you perceive things waiting to be discovered.

However, we do not retain the power to encapsulate the entire universe in our mind. At the end of the day, some questions are easy to ask but difficult to answer. Centuries swept past before you and more will after you and the answers will remain obscured.

Whether we seek the secrets of the universe or we remain oblivious forever, the majority of elements will remain unknown.

It is only when you understand that it was certainly not a venture of discovering the mysteries of the world, rather it was about revelling in them. There is a line where we stand and our questions around the universe thrive and it is here that we seek the answers. However, what lies ahead belongs to us only in our imagination and what has gone does not belong to us anymore.

And some spend their entire lives and only in the final moments do they recognize that this line that separates us from being oblivious to being omniscient is our reality, but be mindful that generosity is not a trait of this realm.

This realm does not stand still for a moment, from which we cannot steal one extra breath, one extra look or one extra word, and this very line that detaches us from the past and the future is the place where we find life.