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Pinch Of Shame

Updated: Oct 5

By Rajreet Kashyap



In the current state of the world, if we look

about the characteristics of relationships,

issues concerning commitment are no rare

thing. That is why perhaps is the case I

tend to drift away from love and

relationships, I tend to run away! I don’t

want anything like that!! But I do at the

same time, it’s confusing, but a part of me

accepts it, it drags me into its arms and

makes me rest. It lets me breathe and have

some space for myself outside the land of

worries. I feel accepted, but I should not! I

should not succumb to such desires, but I

get done with it unintentionally.

Messing up .. Sometimes it’s intentional,

most of the time it’s not. I don’t hate the

concept of love, in fact I sometimes want

for it too! But I can’t commit to it. I just

can’t(and I for a certain fact am ashamed

of it, have been always) but as I’m writing

or typing to be precise, I don’t feel much

remorse, I mean why should I? I don’t

know. It is this that it doesn’t feel right,

what must I do? I know! Fix myself? But fix

what? What does one fix when he does not

know the cause of the issue, what is the

issue, is there any? What do you think.

I will learn to love. Learn to commit. But

almost as certain as the sun rising, the

other individual would not. I mean, how will

they if they haven’t also became self

aware, well, then I shoal end up as the

experiment, in the best case scenario that

is.

And what about the worst? Well, I become

one of the experiments, and lose my value

(that which never existed) and it is quite

the excruciating thing, is it not. What

exactly? That we beings chase after love,

with perceptions different than every other


human, and when we come across a

significant other, an internal conflict arises.

A conflict of different perception of love,

resulting in The win of none but loss of

everyone.

I want to be loved, I did get loved in fact!

But I let that slip away, no, I myself threw it

away. I did not like it, it did not appear to

be to my liking (and I am ashamed). I don’t

know if it will happen again, if I will ever

encounter such care again, but even if I

do, will I ever notice it? No, the real

question is, will I ever, in this life, be aware

of it? What if I’m not? What if I continue to

lie here dead of love starving of care and

warmth but at the same time grieving

every second of the fact that I have once

let it slip no threw it away and it may not

ever come back

While at the same time rejecting

scrumptious food served in silver platter.

What must I do, I do not know, I will never

know. Maybe, I will continue my ashamed

activities. Until I come across what I must.

I shall become the and make others the

experiment. The subject. The project of

discovering love.

This project is not appealing, it is not so to

me. Because it hurts and takes away

fragments of personality and charisma, it

devours one from the inside until there’s

nothing left of him. What does, then

becomes of him when he “is” in love, is he

who he was? Or has he resorted to being

someone who he MUST be, to feel warmth

of love?

There is no kiss of death. A kiss of death is

love itself. There is no such thing as toxic

love. Love is toxic and toxicity is love.

Well then, you may ask, what about the all

cheesy ones? Well, they are subjects of


their own or others experiments too. I wish

to belief they are who they are supposed

to be...? No, they are not. Here’s the

beautiful takeway, nobody is! Nobody is

who they are supposed to be.

Do you know who you are supposed to be?

Le me describe: no sense of awareness

can not walk cannot eat solid food shits in

his own clothings and garments. Yes,

precisely, a child. An infant, why?

Because they are who they are supposed

to be as a person.

Solely because they are free of the

influence of the environment, solely

because they do think twice before doing

anything that may affect their standards,

solely because, they exist. They exist the

way one should. You are not you. You are

just a product of your environment,

nothing more. So is what happens in love.

It tears you from inside, until there is

nothing left of you,

Then, is only when you are worthy of being

loved.

An empty vessel.... Stored with things that

don’t belong there (empty in its own

way)...

Is so beautiful ,appealing,

Loveable.


By Rajreet Kashyap



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Painfully truthful

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