The best part of the journey is to keep learning new everyday" - JustUtter
Innocent Thoughts
This is a book that contains a collection of poems, quotes and experiences that one faces with their inner self. The questions that we ask ourselves everyday, about life. The thoughts that make one anxious, sad, happy, egoistic, harmful. The ocean of emotions, that fill our hearts, and gushes out in waves of anger, remorse, pride. Sometimes writing these thoughts instantly helps us calm down those discomforting nerves. This book has been written in parts, but if you have this part, you have most of the compilation of poems and quotes that I wanted to share with you altogether. If this book gives you comfort of any kinds, feel free to let me know, as often reading is better than watching.
Bhoota Gappa
"Bhoota Gappa", means "Ghost Stories", in the Odiya dialect, and that's my native language from the land of Jagannath, where I come from called Odisha. This all started back in 1985, when we used to visit Buxi bazar, Cuttack, our grandparents house, during summer holidays, as stories where a kid's portal to imagination back then, we were narrated an infinite number of stories, by my grandmother (father's mom), most of it in the genre of ghosts, spirits, black magic, which either she had experiences of her own or she narrated experiences of someone close to her from her childhood, as she called it "Bhoota Gappa", I name this book series in memory of my grandmother, who wanted to become a great educator some day and read a lot of books in various languages, despite of being educated just till middle school.
Each book in this series, consists of 7 short horror stories, followed by a snippet of a bigger horror story happening in parallel, with all the characters from these shorter stories. Some of these experiences are being shared for the first time and are stories inspired by an amalgamation of true stories and events. This will make your heart beats faster, your eyes get bigger and your minds a bit foggy, while you feel chillier as you walk deeper into the darkness of these haunting experiences. Hope you read it all and publish some honest feedback after you read.
Innocent Thoughts
Innocent thoughts started in the year 2009. It's a collection of poems, stories, experiences, and much more. Some pieces sound like being written by a little girl and yes they very much are, as back when I started to write these pieces in my journal I had just begun middle school.
It all started when there was a writing event in the 5th grade and our class teacher late Miss Udita had given an exciting introduction. There were 2 portions of the event one was to write a poem starting with "I wish..." and the second was a story "It was a night filled with chilled darkness...". I bagged the third position for my story and got a round of appreciation for my poem as well. I kept writing after that as regular as possible while it made me grow fonder to the life I was living in and also a way to question my actions when I penned it down. It has helped me grow in phases and still aids me to give a soothing touch for my readers in the words where I express that we all are drifting in the same boat called life.
In a phase of me when trying to forget a lot of people that left me with their sudden demise, this was a way where I could talk to them and tell them how much I missed them but knowing, that there is no way I could ever reach out to them again and have a conversation.