This piece comprises some carefully knitted nostalgia with each thread a “pivotal stone embedded” on our  journey to ‘now’ . I talk about the universally inevitable phenomenon of change and growth while describing the leap from childhood to adolescence then adulthood and finally old age.

Now a little about myself:

My name is Aaliyah Bindra , I’m a dreamer, a musicophile, a dramatist , a humanitarian, a feminist , a photographer , an artist, a singer and most of all a poet  but apart from that I’m also a 14-year-old teenage girl from a small town called Chandigarh.

 I believe poetry not only to be a method of communication and expression but whenever I read or write a poem , I imagine every word to be a broken shard of glass , several of which the reader pieces together by the time he reaches the end of the poem and looks at his reflection in the mirror formed by these words , truly ,a method of self-reflection  that highlights the fact that every cloud has a silver lining . Whether it be finding beauty and happiness  in the quick movements of a hummingbird as it jumps from one flower to another or whether it be reading about someone’s indecisive ‘Path to Now’ which contrasts both euphoria and gloominess. To conclude I will not say that poetry only makes me happy or joyful because that would be nullifying the works of the great Edgar Allen Poe (The father of gothic literature) or the world renowned Sylvia Plath all I can say is , poetry makes one ‘FEEL’, it allows us to tap into our humanity , poetry is astounding , it’s empathetic , it's cold and kind , all at the same time.