Ageing is very strange !
Recently, I came across an old photograph of myself. For a few moments, I simply looked at it. And strangely, it felt as though I was looking at a girl I knew very well. She looked so young. So carefree. So unaware of how quickly life would move. And now the grey strands growing quietly through my hair make me look surprisingly mature now. There was a time when I would have wanted to hide them. Today, they feel more like little reminders of everything I have lived through. There was a day when I was running around my childhood home without ever wondering where the years would go. And now, I sit quietly on my couch, sometimes wondering where all those years disappeared. My face has changed. My priorities have changed. My body has slowed down. The mirror reveals the dark circles, the fine lines, the tiredness that I sometimes wish I could erase. My hair reveals the years I would rather keep hidden. But there is something the mirror cannot show. It cannot show how much stronger I ha...