Shritha Sampath

thoughts i think and things i hear, all terribly inconsequential

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do you guys remember when irrfan khan said in the lunchbox "i think we forget things if we have no one to tell them to", and when irrfan khan said in life of pi "i suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go" and when irrfan khan said in

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the only advantage to being INCAPABLE of remembering the rules to card games is that i have beginner's luck every time i play

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something about seeing the names of economists i haven't seen since my undergrad when doing lit reviews now makes my brain do a somersault

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there will come a day when it rains and i can stop myself from being outside the entire time. today is not that day. also that day will never come, i lied.

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gut-wrenching when a painting in a museum is by an 'unknown artist' because what do you MEAN we'll never know whose hands once moved across this canvas to capture something that only they could see

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when i die, the only stat that will really count is the number of hours i've spent 'adding to dictionary' so that the red squiggly lines on Word disappear

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over and over and over again until one day, the jar is just figs - not rotten, just dried. and i still don't really want them.

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what if it isn't really a fig tree at all? what if it's the bits of dried fig in my muesli that i don't always feel like eating. and so i fish them out, put them back in the jar. and the next time that i pour myself a bowl, the muesli has double the amount of fig bits.

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everyday i tell @nanditha_ajith about my feelings and everyday she replies, "there's a whole genre of tweets about those"

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do people realize that when they talk to me, my brain is quietly playing a game of song association with everything they say?

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overdosing on history podcasts to stop spiraling about your own life is the life hack they don't tell you about

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@Vijayshreeeee “the attachment is there only” i said 🤦‍♀️

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not being aware enough to switch out of bangalore english is going to get me in soo much trouble one of these days

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@nanditha_ajith :(((((( there was a time (earlier today) when i would activate this account only to immortalize a conversation with you :((((((( no more :((((((

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"what's your favourite bullet point" "what's your favourite detergent" "do you want to get chai with me tomorrow" - how is this a normal string of texts to get from someone

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“come meet me and make my life better guys”

“that’s so much pressure. i can make it… noisier at best”

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i know PhDs make people crazy because this boy, bless his soul, just thought it was okay to say "and to quote Google Scholar, i stand on the shoulders of giants"

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@nanditha_ajith one day i'll stop talking, then you'll realize :(((

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my favourite pastime is pouring my heart out to @nanditha_ajith - tears and all - and then saying "okay your turn to be vulnerable, go"

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there’s hierarchical causality and there’s horizontal causality and then there’s whatever the godforsaken force is that makes me set FORTY TWO BILLION alarms for every morning