Preethi Sriram

Happy Ending? What's happy about an ending!? The little girl that always believed in the fairy tales and happily-ever-after is all grown up. Innocence is bliss. yes! But sometimes life is about more than just bliss. Growing up doesn't always stay proportionate with the age. You can be fifty years old and still believe in happy endings or you can be sixteen years old and believe that only "The End" could be your happy ending. Now is the time for a huge question mark. Why!?   Because,the sixteen year old just went through a heartbreak and cries herself to sleep with every passing night and that meant the end of her world. Rings a bell, Fellows!? Everyone of us would've gone through something similar. Heartbreaks and Happy Endings doesn't go along, isn't it? Well, this is not something new to us. We've been dealing with heartbreaks for a pretty long time. It might have felt like the end, but we'll eventually come around.   I've two words fo...

"Stay Close To Anything That Makes you Glad You're Alive! " I couldn't get this quote off my head. It would've possibly been from one of the million pages that flooded my facebook feed. The top right corner of my mobile read '2:41 AM'. Tossing in the bed with thoughts clouding my head, I lay there wide awake. Ilayaraja and A.R. Rahman didn't manage to give the much needed sleep. Lullabies, no longer embraced my tired eyelids. Even the cuddly teddy bear failed at putting me to sleep. Trying to measure my height with the width of the bed didn't help either.  Grabing the blanket closer and pulling it away finding No comfortable position to sleep and the night already seems like a Haphazard.  Just not that, at this time of night when everyone is down getting all comfy in their mattresses, I lay there with a thought train.  Everything seems amusing. Everything. From the pattern of the bedsheet to the fluffy pillow.  From the messy hair to th...

The month of January is so eccentric.The mark of a brand new year, the blossoming hope and the wishes on the star,leaving behind the baggage and starting it all new , New year, New acquaintances, New resolutions, New promises, well..New desire to keep the new promises , and a lot new to start a new year with! I had yet another reason to be happy about ! My birthday! The very word gets me excited.Well, who doesn't love their birthdays? For all the shopping,For all the new dresses,For all the dressing ups,For all the 'waiting for the surprise and act surprised'.. Hell yeah, That will always be one hell of a day. You might have been familiar with this kinda person who gets excited about the very concept of Birthday, goes crazy like a couple of months before , stays above the elation zone and makes everyone around go crazy with their jubilation. now that u have portrayed,that person ,apparently is me!  For the love of the birthday candles and ...