Reflections - Original Writing

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Reflections - Original Writing You don’t believe in such things. You don’t care about how many swallows you have seen so far or the ones you are going to see in future. You are walking and thinking. Wait, you don’t want to do both these things together. It’s not safe to think and walk all at once. You might just fall in a manhole or get run over by a car. So you decide to look and walk rather than to think and walk. That’s good. Now then, the thing about the swallow, you don’t believe it. Besides who said, they were swallows. You don’t have swallows in Bangladesh. They were probably Shaliks. No one ever said seeing Shaliks has the same consequence as seeing swallows. Two little Shaliks sitting on a branch, that is exactly what you saw. Not one, but two. One for sorrow, Two for joy, isn’t that what they say. You pause in front of Hallmark. You wonder, should you go in, or should you just pass on. You see people going in. Their faces full of, what??? You don’t know. Hope maybe, excitement perhaps, or just pure boredom. You decide to go in. Not to buy anything, of course. Just to have a look. They have pretty things in Hallmark. All those cute gifts, beautiful messages. Love is a big business here and it sells. You hear people talking. For a moment, you get a glimpse of their lives. Bits and pieces of their joys. You want to liger a bit longer, but you decide to leave. What’s the point anyway? You come out on the streets. Be careful now, don’t start to think again. How do you plan to cross the road if you keep on thinking? Pay attention! Watch out for the traffic. Okay, now that you have crossed the road, you can safely start to think again. No no, wait. Thinking while standing, hardly sounds inviting. Do you see any parks nearby? Not that you are supposed to find a nice clean park in Dhaka with an

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