Abhiruchi Devdekar (Sasa)

Courtesy - Pintrest We're all born with equal amount of good and evil, but true sense of morality and perfect nurture makes us who we are. Growing up, all of us had been taught that following good habits and etiquettes makes us a good person. But if you measure your goodness considering those parameters currently, where would you lie? - You are always good and humble to everyone. Yes/No? - You eat your food on time. Yes/No? - You never swear or use inappropriate language. Yes/No? - You never take things for granted. Yes/No? - You respect not only elders, but everyone. Yes/No? - You never lie/you're always honest with everyone. Yes/No? - You never envy others. Yes/No? - You're always, always happy. Yes/No? What's your score? Comment down your scores. Any score works fine because there's just so much more to it than this. Also, if you get all of them right, are you human?! Being a good person simply means despite of being imperfect, being the best version of "you...

I was cleaning my book shelf last night and I came across this notebook,  seemed unfamiliar, but familiar, maybe because it was old. It was my elder cousin sister's,  I saw her name on the index page, and it was dated back in 2008. I must've been 7 years old then, so I started flipping the pages over to see if I find any surprises, turns out the book didn't disappoint me. I mean what's better than rediscovering things kept in a book decades ago? It was filled with memories, the "good" ones. Maybe that's what we crave for everytime we want to make ourselves feel better. Coming back to the notebook, it was so pretty, with all the chocolate wrappers preserved, wrappers of the chocolates which don't even exist anymore, the wowies, milk treats, perks, bytes and all of those, I was just so overwhelmed by the sight of them. That's when it hit me, that whatever that's preserved in a book stays, for god knows how long, it's like a corroboration of t...