BlogMas 2018 Day Five - Arctic

Conflicting identities attract. All the time. We don't recognise this until we crave the same badge, we found irksome initially, by someone who wears it all the time. And unintentionally, you end up making each other's life just slightly more beautiful. Sometimes you find the indescribable valour to be a person you're needed to be for someone else, but never found the strength to do it for your own good.  One of the most innate quirks about people I find unendingly admirable is their skill to achieve and stay in the shadows. Some come out freely and prefer to shine under the spotlight, and there's nothing wrong with that either. But the propensity to be centred, and move from a thought to the next, one milestone to next while unassumingly to do better of yourself is exquisite. There'll always be a tonne of conversations we have with people where we know the same things, we speak on the same things, but rarely when you talk just to be able to listen to what the other person really makes of what they know. And this is a different kind of relationship. It's a friendship nonetheless, but a very selfless barter of what you lend of yourself to another. Relationships like these set a much higher tone for what new you might come across next. It loans a strong sense of completion to yourself, you never thought prevailed.

As humans, I don't feel that we leave gaps in our personalities on choice or to give ourself a timeline of sorts, presuming there'll always be room to grow at a later time in life. I reckon we draw these disproportionate blanks within ourselves for someone to fill in, who possess the answers so strongly, they make an art form of them. And their presence becomes requisite. Moving on in life is always bittersweet. It's similar to how it feels going home after a long vacation. You know you're a different person, but you're also going to miss who you were for the time being. The exactitude with which you feel the same way about some people in your life is infinitely uncanny. I never thought about how an empowering relationship might feel like. One filled with humour, criticism, support, presence. And very few things in life make you believe how easily unconditionality can exist in relationships.

Today was Amaya, an ex-colleague and the dearest friend I made in this city till date. With her I realised, just how uplifting it is to empower and give, and truly so, contrariwise as well. And how beautiful it is to accept all the differences that can possibly exist between two people and still have each other as a part of your lives while turning a new page all the time.

Today's gif is also for Amaya, for the nutcase that she is, is the only one who can look at a switchboard catching fire and think it as looking pretty.

Until then. 

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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

A.