The text that describes the feeling...

"I know you're going to do this. I don't really understand why you want to put yourself at such risk. I'll try to be supportive, but just don't expect me to pretend to be happy about it." I knew that not being able to share this danger with me was one of the hardest things for her to accept about the situation.

- excerpt from the book "First in Afghanistan"

Bonds!

The experience of the old life came quite suddenly, caught me unprepared and completely off-guard. But strangely, I did not resend it, but instead, allowed the experience to flow through me, invoking memories of the past and reliving them in the present.

Sadly, the past can never be totally re-lived. People come and go. Bonds strengthen and weaken. Things will never be the same again. In the course of 3 years, I've seen the countless formation of new bonds, and the breakage of old ones. Honor the old. Cherish the new. For you never know when they will all but disappear.

I hope, with time, bonds that I had painstakingly forged will only grow stronger. But alas, I can only hope. In faith I hope.

I'm back!

It is soooo soooo nice to be back writing on my blog again after a long hiatus. Somehow, for the past 3 months, I didn't have the mood to write and even if I did, the words just couldn't flow.

It seems I have lost touch with my inner-self.

The past 3 months had gone-by in a whirl and much had happened. Much. Life is a journey that starts with self-discovery and it begins with the awareness of self. And only then you can proceed to conquer the world. And not look back.

Not look back. The future is all that matters.