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For so many past years,

I have been living a life

Meeting the standards of others.

I buried many of my wishes

Owing to the pressure of social values.

I sacrificed my dreams

For the satisfaction of significant others.

I started living the life

According to the norms.

To get the acceptance of the loved ones,

I had to lose one person.

Who is that?

That is Me.

In the pressure of pursuing instructions,

And meeting the values of others

I lost my confidence.

I lost my decisiveness.

I lost my own style.

I forgot who I was.

I became everything

Others wanted me to be.

In the world outside me,

The peace resided

But in the world inside me, there was screaming.

I looked for some window

To save my injured soul

From the suffocation,

In the darkness of desperation and fears,

I couldn’t find any.

To ensure my survival,

To get rid of the discrepancy between my heart and my mind,

To overcome the feeling of helplessness,

To take me out of the sense of worthlessness

To settle the storms of purposelessness

To come out of depression

I throttled all my dreams.

I achieved a level of calmness,

However, I could not ever remove

A deep sense of emptiness in my soul.

I often hear the voice of silence.

It whispers to me,

“Are you what you are supposed to be?

Are you happy without you?”

I started neglecting the voice,

But a few days ago

I saw a new window

From where the light is coming.

In the coming year, I have the desire to

Open up that window;

And allow the beam of hope to illuminate my way again.

I have the desire to

Bring back to life all the buried desires

I have the desire to ignite my dreams again.

I have the desire to shun all the glooms,

And to bloom at the fullest.

I have the desire to sweep away my fears,

And to reach those heights

The potential of which has always been hidden in me.

Simply, I have the desire to attain

The lost ME;

And to set forth to achieve

Everything that is meant for me.

HAPPY NEW YEAR