Kaapiccino Unfiltered

    They say one must pick out a title for their article once they’ve summed up their thoughts crisply and comprehensively. Somehow, I find myself incapacitated to do that, the title strikes me first and the rest just follows. But, then, this one is close to my heart. Most of the titles that have hit me have been moons ago, yet, this one takes precedence in my heart consistently. The reason primarily is that constant reminders and situations take place for me to feel it in its true essence.  There’s a thing my mother says when she’s feeling intensely and showering love and attention onto our 2-year-old Hazel-eyed Labrador, Khal. She cups his face and looks him in the eye and says “You’re my God,kandha”. It always strikes a chord in me so profoundly, because of the bountiful love I feel for my dogs, Yama (our 7-month-old Indie rescue boi) and Khal (our 2-year-old Labrador). There’s no way else to call this intensity of divine affection we feel for our loves. I remember wat...

  Google defines relationships as "how two or more people or things are connected, or the state of being connected "essentially, connection. The term isn't a stand-alone but rather has connotations with versatile dynamics: familial, platonic, professional, romantic and even as a part of acquaintances. I see it as evolutionary terminology. Lately, my life has evolved from deemed girlhood to womanhood in months, which has nothing to do with my being or identity biology. But simply as one cocoon out of a said mental age. Age is devoid of the construct we apply to it. With that comes traversing newer dynamics, which more frivolously and frequently becomes the act of hunting for a connection, a bond of companionship that isn't by blood or friendship. The presidency of wanting love outside of that cocoon of relationships we already know starts when the acknowledgement of love being a dominant emotion seeps in and grows stronger over one's understanding of needs and desi...