Just My Pointless Ramblings

“The world is cruel, yet it is still so beautiful.” -Akuma no Ko by Ai Higuchi from ‘Attack on Titans’. An ode to the song, the anime which I have dearly loved.   The world has deemed snakes as cruel creatures for a long time. After all, they leave death in their wake, they were one of the natures deadliest creatures. For decades, the snakes were feared and worshipped. At one point, the fact that such vicious creatures could even exhibit maternal instincts towards their eggs and young ones was widely debated, but the truth was that snakes cared, even up to the point of forsaking their foods, rather than forsaking their eggs. Vipers and pythons were known to forsake food for over months, they would rather prefer to curl up tightly around their eggs and provide them warmth. The mothers often do not leave their eggs, causing their body to deteriorate due to lack of nourishment.   Snakes are fierce protectors, yet cunning and deadliest of hunters. Snakes maybe crue...

  I have a lot of baggage, some passed on to me and some which I have gathered from my trip here on this earth. One day, when I walking all alone, you came along and I liked your pretty smile and dancing eyes and asked if you wanted to walk with me. To my absolute delight, you agreed, and I was overjoyed, I was so happy that I would have someone to walk with me. And even though I liked walking alone, I also liked your company. Maybe when you came along, I realised walking together was much more fun. I was so happy in my own walk, that till now, I had failed to see how other’s walk was beautiful too… It was easy, easy walking with you, steps seemed lighter, and less tiring, and more fun. One day, as we were walking and I huffed and heaved, you looked at me and my bag and asked me, “That looks heavy, you want me to help you carry it?” And I looked in awe and wondered why would you want to do that, because I saw your baggage too. Yours looks so heavy already, why would you wan...