• J is for judgemental

    “The coffee’s cold”
    “There’s no salt in the daal”
    “This movie was a waste of time”
    ‘Gosh! This traffic is killing me”
    Simple sentences but ones that crush my spirit because I feel that they are verdicts on my acts of commission or omission. 
    Words so simple that sound harmless become accusations when said by people who are judgemental.

    How easily the words slip out without a thought for tone of voice, inflection and  facial expression.
    It’s hard to live with people who all the time are judgemental.

    judgementaldʒʌdʒˈmɛnt(ə)l/adjectiveof or concerning the use of judgement.
    “judgemental decisions about the likelihood of company survival”
    having or displaying an overly critical point of view.
    “I don’t like to sound judgemental, but it was a big mistake”

    Wooden gavel with a brass band resting on a plinth used by a judge or auctioneer and conceptual of justice and judgements with backlit highlight and copyspace - stock photo

    There are over a 1000 bloggers from all over the world  participating in this challenge. Do pop in and see what the others are writing. It’s amazing  and fascinating to discover how people’s minds work and how the same prompt can inspire different thoughts. 

  • Today’s Prompt: You stumble upon a random letter on the path. You read it. It affects you deeply, and you wish it could be returned to the person to which it’s addressed. Write a story about this encounter.

    Today’s twist: Approach this post in as few words as possible.

    A piece of paper flutters at my feet.

    “I’m leaving home”

    the words pop out from  amid the scribbles and chill me to the bone.

    I wonder how it got here in the first place and where it was from.

    Was it thrown before it was delivered or was it read and thrown away?

    I turn it round and look for clues

    Then finding none,

    Chuck it in the nearest bin.

  • I just can’t believe it was just last Friday that I was getting ready to leave for the airport at this time. I was on a trip to the United Arab Emirates – a brief vacation if one could call a weekend a holiday!
    I was a bit apprehensive about the trip because just the day before Dubai was hit by a terrible sandstorm, the effects of which we are dusting in far off Mumbai as late as a week later. Yes, I came back home to find the furniture with a layer of dust and for the whole of this week we’ve been dusting twice a week. This, I’ve been told is because of the severe dust storm that hit Dubai last Thursday.
    My friends in Dubai tell me that the skies were filled with dust and they could barely see 50 feet in front of them. Luckily by the time we landed the skies were blue and we could enjoy our short stay there.
    Waiting to see the Dubai sky

    The Sheikh Zayed Mosque at Abu Dhabi
    Wind surfers dotting an Abu Dhabi sky

    The setting sun 

    The towering Burj al Khalifa

    The tallest building in the world!

    I is for Images of an Emirati Sky.

    There are over a 1000 bloggers from all over the world  participating in this challenge. Do pop in and see what the others are writing. It’s amazing  and fascinating to discover how people’s minds work and how the same prompt can inspire different thoughts. 

    I am also linking this to Skywatch Fridays and for more amazing skies from around the world please do visit here.

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