The Soul Chat

After a lot of views and on my reader’s demand, I dare to speak on this topic. Aaaahhhh…. Women..!!!! The most beautiful yet complicated creation of god. As I said earlier cheating has nothing to do with the gender however, situations may vary for a MAN and a WOMAN. As far as stereotypes go, a wandering eye and the urge to jump into bed with multiple partners seems to be built into a man's DNA, but when it comes to cheating, the sexes are created more equally than we think. (Cough, my girlfriends, cough.) I guess it comes down to the fact that we humans were never biologically designed to be monogamous. Our heroines did it in  Unfaithful, American Beauty & Sex and the City.  And they’re not the only ones. Although women haven’t surpassed men on the   cheating  scale, more married and committed women than ever before are jumping in the sack with someone other than their partners.  I read somewhere that according to a survey done in 2012, 99% of t...

I had a sleepover at my place. You know how it is: cute girls, pillow fights, dancing, chocolates, soft toys & gossip. Well, my friends were having a conversation about how they think all men cheat. Despite the fact that one of them was single & the others in monogamous relationships, they were quite adamant, that no matter what, if you are with a guy, he is going to fall into the arms of another woman- sooner or later. At one point they realized that this conversation is going too far, so they turned to each other saying “I mean, I don’t think MY man cheats.” One of them hesitated while saying, “I trust him, but do not trust him blindly. After all, he is A MAN!” I took a long sip of my coffee, put down the mug, and with a resigned sigh said, “Can we please change the topic?” Although I succeeded, but at the same time I realized how cliché I sounded. Waking up the next morning made me think about the topic that I requested to change last night. It is human nature or m...

Wow! I found myself in utter bliss when I received my first response from one of my readers. I liked the way he approached the story of Hades & Persephone. This witty writer gave it a new look and so, I decided to post his work on my blog. I am sorry as I did not take your permission before posting the below content however, I would really appreciate if you will be a sport and forgive me for this. You are an awesome writer! His email goes like this: Hello Shona, I went through your story about the famous love story of Greek mythology. No offenses but I have written a simple yet correct to the point version of my Hades & Persephone’s love story. Let’s take things one by one:- Hades was the most unfortunate of the three brothers, sons of Saturn. Zeus took the Heaven and Olympus kingdom. Neptune took the Sea and Water.   And poor Hades took the dark Death Kingdom (under the Earth) with a wild dog with 3 heads and a snake for a tale; all those were the result ...

Before Romeo and Juliet, there was Hades and Persephone. A classic love story….!!!  Now, I do not claim to say that everything written below is owned by me, as it is a mythology. However, I do say that I tried my best to deliver this eternal love story.  Hades, as far as I have read have been depicted as the bad god of the underworld who abducted Persephone. Not many have written about his true, faithful love for his only wife. How he happened to fall in love with her, how he took care of her, & how he remained to be the only god in the Greek Mythology who can be termed as ‘loyal’ or ‘faithful.’ So, following the introduction, the eternal love story of HADES & PERSEPHONE goes something like this: The first living visitor to the Underworld, though an unwilling one, was the goddess Persephone. The only daughter of Zeus and Demeter (the goddess of grain, agriculture, and fertility), Persephone was an innocent maiden, a virgin who loved to play in th...

Love a girl who writes. She's hard to find because she's the one who stands in the corner of the room watching other people from a distance. She's the one who searches their faces and watches their body language. She stands close enough that she can hear but far enough away so that she won't be seen. She's a master at invisibility, and all the smart girls know she's the best at eavesdropping. They go to her for the gossip. She knows who is in love with whom just by watching them. You'll be a lucky man if you find her. She's the one with a journal in her hand, a notebook in her purse, scrap paper in her car, and pencils in her back pocket. She’s always scribbling something, praying it won't evaporate before she gets it down onto paper. And because she's always scribbling, she's always looking down, and that's why you never noticed her before. If you're lucky, you'll find her at a library or in a park or at a coffee...