Why People Are Like Lace

I always went with ‘people suck’. But I have come to realize that they don’t. No, they don’t suck. But they break and change and things inevitably fall apart. So don’t attach yourself to people. In time you will learn that you will do it anyway. You will attach yourself to people and it will make you happy and you will wonder why you ever thought people sucked. Like I mentioned earlier – no, they don’t suck. People are amazing. Relationships are amazing. Relationships lead to memories. Memories are like capsules of time. They are amazing. You need to collect them – as many as you can. It’s the only way to exist, really. And for that, you need people. So people aren’t horrible. What they are, however, is fragile.

New Year's Resolutions and What I Wore

New year resolutions are bullshit. So let's move on to what I wore on New Year's Eve.

Autumn Trends I'm Digging

Yeah whatever it doesn't get cold here in Mumbai. We've discussed this before. Moving on to the autumn trends I'm going to be excited about anyway, regardless of the weather. All the cool people say, "I don't follow trends, hate them."

 I will admit, I quite like trends. They make me feel in synch with the universe. Or the blogging world, anyway. So here are three Autumn/Winter 2015 clothing trends I'm terribly excited about.

Being a Grown-up: A Review

I decided now’s a good time to review “grown-up” life, because I’m in that odd in-between time when I’m hot out of college but I’ve lived a good two and half months of adult-ish life. Maybe this isn’t exactly adult life because I’m not making tons of money out of my job and I don’t have children I have to take to school. But I don’t go to college anymore and make my own breakfast. I think this is adult enough.

And you know what? It’s kind of awesome. Sure I often have the adult-life-isn’t-worth-the-hype moments when I just want to go back to being younger. Although to be honest, I was never very good at childhood. And when I speculate over my younger years, I did have some really fun times, but I didn’t achieve much, really. Was average at academics, crap at sports, never participated in extra-curricular activities – I basically just passively existed.

Now my mind is perpetually scared and nervous and excited. Now I look forward to meeting friends (that have stuck around over the years) on weekends. Now I get thrills out of reading struggle stories of successful old women and men and think hey that could be me someday. And these are my so-called years of struggle and its kind of fun.

The internet has never been a more informative space and music never more inspiring than right now. I’ve never had more evenings when I walk back home lost in thought, thinking about where my life may be headed, wondering what every memory I have may mean for my future.

I definitely believe now that graduation is a milestone. Not because of much else but because it marks the end of one kind of existence and the beginning of another. I often look at “old photos” that are not older than ten months and wonder where that phase has gone and if it will ever come back.

It probably won’t. And that’s not such a bad thing – I know that now.

Shapeshifters

When I look around me, my eyes absorb what I see and I decide who I need to be accordingly. Rectangular rooms, a cat and people who look a little like me turn me into one kind of person. White desks, new faces, Apple computers and coffee mugs everywhere turn me into an awfully quiet version of myself. And stone pillars, wooden benches and friendly faces make me the happiest version of myself. But the list goes on.

I have never questioned why one needs to be so many different people.

That’s just how it is.

Nude Everything: Eyes

To accompany my very cool nude nails, I like to wear nude eyes, too. And of course, one way to do nude eyes is to wear nothing at all (which I love, too), or to use nude products. Skip the black eyeliner and brown eyeshadow and work with nude products in different textures. Here are two products I’ve been using loads recently.

Nude Everything: Nails

My obsession with nude nail polish is not a new one, but definitely one that has amplified immensely over the past couple of months. Honestly, I probably have already written something similar to this very post, but I’m going to write this anyway because I cannot seem to get over this trend. Nude nail polish. Nude lipstick. Nude eyeshadow. I’m thinking this would make for perfect content for a mini series.

As for nude nails, it has been all that has been adorning my nails for the past couple of months. No jokes. Every time I try to switch things up with some of my old favourites –a pale pink, a butterscotch or even my supposed all-time favourite, a fire engine red, two days later, I am so annoyed with how my nails look, I wipe it all off for a nude again. There’s something very appealing about how clean and minimalist nude nail polish can look.