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Date: 08/07/2025

There’s always that one flickering bulb at home.

You think, “I’ll fix it tomorrow.”

And weeks pass.

You learn to live with its rhythm—on-off-on, blink-blink, buzz.

It becomes a part of your background, your quiet.

I think we’re all like that bulb sometimes.

Flickering. Not broken, just… tired.

But still giving light.

Even if it’s not perfect.

And you know what? That’s okay.

You don’t have to shine steady all the time.

Even flickers count.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah

Guwahati, Assam, India

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Date: 08/07/2025

He made two cups of tea every morning.

One for himself. One for memory.

She never came back.

But he never stopped.

The steam curled like her laugh once—light, rising, fading.

Some habits are love letters.

Some routines are stories left unfinished.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah

Guwahati, Assam, India

Instagram: @rajatchandrasarmah5

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Date: 07/07/2025

Have you noticed how Sundays have their own smell?

It’s a weird mix of agarbatti, shampoo, and pressure cooker steam.

At home, it also meant old Hindi songs on the radio and Papa reading the paper too loudly.

Maa would clean things that were already clean.

We’d all move slower.

Not lazy—just softer.

Evenings came with extra cups of tea and that faint worry about Monday.

Now I live alone, but some Sundays, I recreate the whole thing—just for comfort.

Because peace isn’t always silence.

Sometimes, it’s the familiar noise you grew up with.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah

Guwahati, Assam, India

Instagram: @rajatchandrasarmah5

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Date: 07/07/2025

Choose the stairs today—not for your body, but for your mind.

In each step is presence, in each breath, awareness.

Elevators are quick.

But the climb teaches patience, rhythm, stillness between effort.

You don’t need a mountain to feel victorious.

Sometimes, even 12 steps are enough to remind you that you can rise.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah

Guwahati, Assam, India

Instagram: @rajatchandrasarmah5

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Date: 06/07/2025

Cooking with someone is a strange kind of intimacy.

One moves, the other follows.

You reach for salt, they pass it before you ask.

It’s clumsy, full of jokes and little burns and spilled dal.

But it’s a rhythm.

We once cooked khichdi together—me, chopping too slow, she stirring too fast.

We laughed more than we cooked.

In the end, the rice was undercooked, but the moment was perfect.

Some meals don’t feed your stomach.

They feed your bond.

If you get a chance this week—cook with someone you love.

Not for the food. For the mess.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah

Guwahati, Assam, India

Instagram: @rajatchandrasarmah5

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Date: 10/07/2025

Some mornings need wisdom.

Some need warmth.

Here’s both:

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” — Mother Teresa

“Breathe. It’s just a bad day, not a bad life.” — Unknown

Wrap yourself in these and step out stronger.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah

Guwahati, Assam, India

Instagram: @rajatchandrasarmah5

YouTube: ConverseWithASmile

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Date: 05/07/2025

Why do dads listen to the TV at full blast?

It’s like they’re fighting the silence.

You walk into the room and bam! Newsreader shouting, volume at 95, Dad still asking “What did he say?”

But over time, I’ve realised—maybe it’s not just about hearing.

It’s about presence.

That loud background noise fills the gaps where loneliness might creep in.

So I stopped complaining.

Now I sit beside him, watching nothing in particular, just nodding at the noise.

Sometimes connection doesn’t come from deep talks.

Sometimes it’s just… sitting in the same room.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah

Guwahati, Assam, India

Instagram: @rajatchandrasarmah5

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Date: 05/07/2025

Start your Saturday with borrowed courage.

Here are four powerful voices to walk beside you today:

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” — Mary Anne Radmacher

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

Start with one quote—and one quiet step

Rajat Chandra Sarmah

Guwahati, Assam, India

Instagram: @rajatchandrasarmah5

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Date: 04/07/2025

There’s a black hole in every washing machine.

It eats socks.

You put in two, it gives you one.

I don’t know where they go. Maybe there’s a parallel universe ruled by single socks.

And you know what? I’ve stopped caring.

Because life is full of these tiny disappearances—pens, hair clips, tiffin lids.

They vanish, and somehow, we move on.

So tonight, I let the sock go.

Folded its lonely twin and said, “You’ll find your way. Or a new purpose.”

Like a dust cloth. Or a puppet.

Everything gets recycled—eventually.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah

Guwahati, Assam, India

Instagram: @rajatchandrasarmah5

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Date: 04/07/2025

Before you check your phone—drink a glass of water.

Before you scroll endlessly—take a breath that stretches your chest.

Before you react—pause.

The world will still be there. But your mind? It needs space.

Start your day like you’d speak to a child—with gentleness and care.

Hydrate your thoughts. Oxygenate your spirit.

And see how peace walks in quietly, right behind your first breath.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah

Guwahati, Assam, India

Instagram: @rajatchandrasarmah5

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