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Letter to a Job seeker

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  Dear Jobseeker, As to let you know, I am not unemployed. A more appropriate word for me is a Masters's student. You must be wondering then why are you writing this? well, the truth is I am frustrated. A LOT. I am going to ramble a lot so read it at your own risk. India is going through a recession right now. Many people are losing their jobs and unable to retain their existing jobs too. When I thought about writing this, I wanted to go all smart one and come up with all the graphs and figures of how badly we are doing. But now, the only thing I want to share is how one can feel.  When a person applies for a job and does not even have the email back that is the worst. But you know what worst than this? To not be able to realize where they went wrong? how far a person can go to improve themselves? There is always going to be some full stop at improvement point right? So many social media posts talking about that nobody is perfect. Not true. Somewhere we all are looking for per...

Unexpected Acquaintance

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If you are here to look at my story with some person, Let me tell you. YOU ARE WRONG. I am going to talk about a lizard. Yes! A lizard. I live in a hostel room and outside in my balcony, between the gap of the wall and railings one lizard used to live. I am scared of lizards. So, this story is quite an unexpected turn of events.   In monsoon, where so many insects were coming in, I had a tough time battling them even with heat and that is when I saw her. Well, I noticed her first during the quarantine period. The period of quarantine was tough for all of us but It used to make me feel lonely. Lizard used to hang around my net and eat insects from it. I was wondering that I can just you know throw her down the balcony with the broom or maybe pigeons can eat it! but nothing like that happened. It came every single day. If there was an attendance she got 100%.   Every single day, I was so used to watching her. The way she moves around carefully and keeps eating the inse...