She Walks in Beauty: A Women's Journey

I came across this book. The title seemed intriguing and I turned the pages. It was a book with a collection of poems.  I don't make it a point to read many poems, though there are a few that catch my attention and rivet me to the spot while I savor the beauty of the words.

As I flipped through the pages of the book, I realized that the author had actually compiled poems of different poets and segregated them in categories. The write up on the categories and the poems put in seemed exquisite. After going through a few poems, I have decided to slow down and and savor the poems and share those that I really enjoy.

To start off, and to end this post, is one poem that I came across in this book. As I read this poem, I realized that I had come across this years ago and it was something that had stuck to my mind. This a poem by Christopher Marlowe who was considered the foremost Elizabethian tragedian. A dramatist and poet, he has a few plays and poetry to his name. The poem I read,

From Hero and Leander,

It lies not in our power to love or hate,

For will in us is over-rul'd by fate.

When two are stript, long ere the course begin,

We wish that one should lose, the other win;

And one especially do we affect

Of two gold ingots, like in each respect:

The reason no man knows, let it suffice,

What we behold is censur'd by our eyes.

Where both deliberate, the love is slight:

Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?

I understand, this is but an excerpt of the entire poem. If such beautiful lines are just a part of the entire poem, then how would it be in its entirety. Shakespeare too has used the same lines in his play As You Like It.  Looking forward to a days spent reading the poem and Shakespeare's plays in entirety...and also to rest of the poems from this wonderful book.

Becoming an employee...

Three weeks ago, I spent my time with my friends. Frolicking around most of the days, going out to restaurants,  planning 'friends time out' and so on. Like currents are sprinkled on the top of the cake, these days had a bit of studying to sprinkled all over them. The currents in the form of studies became more frequent as the exams approached.

Just a week prior to that I had been placed in a company. I was to become an employee once my exams were over. I found myself, categorized as a student, falling hard and fast into the category of an employee within the space of a week.

Time spent so casually, suddenly seemed hard to come by. A friend had told me that I would find it difficult to blog and I pushed this statement away with a laugh. But as days passed by, I realized that the trick was not just in finding time for the blog but also in finding something to write about.

The days in college passed by where very few days did not have something interesting cropping up. 

Barely 2 weeks have gone by. I can count the number of days that I have worked with my fingers. They are so few in number. 

It's different from college. People seem more serious and there are things that need to be done in time. It's when I convince myself that things have changed that things pipe up and it seems as though I have stepped into a more grown up version of my class, my college.

Things are definitely different but it's a difference that I am beginning to relish. It's a difference that drives me and gives me a sense of purpose. My only regret in the entire two weeks has been my inability to make time for my interests. But then I know, as time passes, I would be able to make more time for myself...And this drives me forward.

Looking forward to more days at work, evenings and weekends with friends and family!!! :)