Today is the first anniversary of this blog 🙂 Unfortunately the next new story is not ready yet. But to celebrate the anniversary, here is an excerpt from it

The stubborn, stupid, foolish hope! You keep telling yourself that you are not hoping. But it creeps up on you, silently. It finds a cozy, comfortable home in your heart. Your mind doesn’t notice. Or decides not to notice. It is arrogant. It thinks that it can ignore the powers of hope. That it can keep it at bay. That even if some hope sneaks into your heart, it would know how to evict it. And the hope stays there. Hidden from the arrogant mind; at least not acknowledged by it. Then one day the hope, whose existence you never acknowledged, gets crushed. And it doesn’t suffer alone. With it gets crushed a part of your heart. And your mind cannot cut off the signals of pain. It can repent ignoring it all this while. But it is too late. You must suffer the pain.