The Half-Finished Painting

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Date: 14/07/2025

In his upper room, an old man stared at a canvas he began years ago—a boat adrift on a stormy sea. For decades, he never returned to it.

This evening, he picked up a brush and painted a calm blue sky above it. The storm was over.

Maybe that’s what life is about—coming back to old stories, old scars, and finishing them differently. Tonight, revisit something you left incomplete. A book. A call. A dream. Add a calm sky above it.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah

Guwahati, Assam, India

Instagram: @rajatchandrasarmah5

Website: http://www.rajatchandrasarmah.com

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