Shades of Green

We came as dust. We are dust. And we return to earth as dust... The Spirit lives forever. What we acquire in this worldly life, stays here. We carry only the Spirit with us to the life after. The 'life after' is that which matters the most; the one we should be proud of. Live today to make one heart happier, whether through your actions or your thoughts. For we do not know how our days are numbered. Next time you see the girl on Instagram, flaunting how a serum erased her skin's blemishes or the man claiming how an insurance saved his family from big losses... Remember that the biggest loss you could ever encounter is to have been a loser in the eyes of God - to have lived a life unfulfilled and ungrateful. God is your biggest insurance. Your body is your greatest blessing. The prayers you chant are the serum to all your sufferings. The very energies God has blessed this Universe with are in the air you breathe, the water you drink, the sounds you hear, and the ight you see

  As I happily sauntered my way into college boarding house, in 2014, I made way too many friends. I often bumped into familiar, pleasant, sometimes grumpy faces along the corridor. But I saw them often and that made all the difference; I had never felt so lonely as I would in just two years from then. What changed then?  “The doors changed.” When prompted to picture what a hostel would look like, my thoughts were that of an old, shabby, building with dirty unpainted walls; rooms with no tiles, windows that were never cleaned, beds of steel (I pictured a bed and that’s a little too much to ask for, I know), ceiling fans that collected too much dust – the color barely visible - from decades of no dusting, and common bathrooms that one had to wait in queues for. During my first year, my hostel looked just as I had pictured it to be – or maybe slightly better. I made friends easily. Anyone could barge into anybody’s room anytime. Doors were mostly open. Now, there’s a funny reason why doo