Himanshi Thakur
@GreyMatter · 5:00
Tales from the Terrace
You. Hello everybody. It's almost 1115 in the night, it is closer to midnight. And today I am reminiscing the huge importance of terrace in my life. This may sound a little funny or a little weird at first instance, but terraces have formed a huge part of my life. This is something personal and since swell is such a wonderful space where I can share my heart out and all you people accept me with your open arms and bestow your love and warmth upon me
And terrace is the best place for me because whenever I feel like no one is listening to me, or whenever I feel like someone, one is not able to understand me or I'm going through some or the other problem, I obviously go to terrorists, walk this sit for some time and get solace out of there
Yuvraj Jain
@yjain60 · 2:53
I hope you're doing really well and I do keep listening to your messages that you sent and it's really beautiful that you take that effort out to sort of really connect. Yeah, I wish you have a great day
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
preethy uthup
@peeli · 2:29
Hi, manchi. It's really, really, you know, nice just opening up and saying exactly what you went through. And, you know, sometimes you might feel it still also. I don't know. So of course I can relate to it in a lot more extent because was there was a time in my life where life was like claustrophobic. So I needed some solis
Himanshi Thakur
@GreyMatter · 0:41
Hi, Gauri. Thank you for your reply, and I'm so glad that you also connect with Terrace the way I do. I'm glad that you resonated with my experience. And, yeah, it is true, right, that when we have nowhere to go, we go to the Terrace. So I'm glad that you connected with my experience. And thank you. Thank you for replying, and I hope these terrorist tales continue for both of us. See you around, Gauri
Himanshi Thakur
@GreyMatter · 1:38
And it's completely fine, not an issue. And you brought out such a wonderful point that whatever solace I feel on my terrace, a huge role is played by the nature, the sky, the cloud, the moon, the garden that has been planted by my father. I think these elements make the terrace more of a special place with so much of comfort and warmth. So thank you. Thank you for bringing that out. And I'm so glad that you could go to the beaches
Himanshi Thakur
@GreyMatter · 1:28
Think without being conscious about people around you or without people talking to you or without your phone buzzing all the time. I think you can just be yourself in that space. So, yeah, thank you. Thank you for replying. Thank you for sharing your own experience. It means a lot to me. Take care, preeti. I'll see you around
Well, that's just my theory. So it's good. It's good that you also find ways to regulate yourself. I think you're very aware of yourself, so you find ways to regulate yourself. You go out or you keep yourself occupied. So I think that's what's really important. So dude, I think thanks for sharing this. Well, it's very different. Very different
Himanshi Thakur
@GreyMatter · 4:50
But even if you cannot go to bed early in the night and if you wake up late, then within the 1 hour of waking up, make sure to get some sun. Like sun viewing, he calls it. So you face towards sun, close your eyes, don't look directly at the sun and just bask in that sunlight that also resets circadian rhythm. And actually I was following it. I'm not following it right now. I'm actually not following anything at this moment
Hi himanshi. That was such a beautiful share. I could totally connect with you, because so for me, it has been the balcony. And that I have memories from my childhood and teenage from the balcony in my house. So I could so relate to you. And, yeah, terraces are fantastic, too. In fact, you know, they are excellent for gardening, since I'm into gardening big time. So thank you for sharing. I thoroughly enjoyed listening to you. Bye
So nowadays what I do is I'm in Delhi, so the place where I stay, it's got about 25 26 floors. So this is what I often do. And what I do is I make an airplane, a paper plane, and then I write a gratitude message on it and then I just let it float in the air. So the society where I stay, there are about 24, 26 odd buildings. One building is about 25, 26 stories high
Adarsh Rai
@TheDevilsHorse · 5:00
But my parents also used to be away and away. So like you found terrace as your solace as a place to I took solace in technology or in games or in dreams thinking of something that is not possible by me. But putting my place in those situations and coming out heroically and sometimes villainous. It might sound weird, but that's how I grew up. Imagining a lot of things and somewhere that can be equated to why I write so deep or dark
Himanshi Thakur
@GreyMatter · 1:36
This is the only picture that I got, which is sort of all right and fine, but I'll try to send you a complete picture of my terrace garden. Thanks for sharing your own story, and thanks for resonating with me. And I think these are just our pods of escapism, right? And some harbinger of peace and solace and some equilibrium. So, yeah, thank you. Thank you for replying. I hope you're doing well. Take care, and I'll see you around
Himanshi Thakur
@GreyMatter · 2:11
And I believe that collective consciousness has a life on its own, because so many people on this planet with their own energies and their own consciousness running wild. 24/7 it's very much alive. I really feel that, and I felt it strongly during the Lockdown times. Well, having said that, coming to the airplane thing, I think that is ingenious. I mean, I would have loved to receive this random note. Now I feel like I should have been your neighbor
Himanshi Thakur
@GreyMatter · 4:21
I had so much of loneliness, I'm glad that it converted into solitude but life has been lonely, I'm not going to lie. And single children are also very edgy situation. So I have developed this opinion that either you don't have any children or have at least two because single children spend so much of time with themselves doing their own thing that they can either be the coolest people or the most complicated people you'll ever meet
Aditi Kapoor
@MyCuratedTales · 2:02
So for me, ideally, I don't spend a lot of time at home, but watching trees is extremely therapeutic for me. I feel it's extremely meditating to just stand and stare at the trees. And actually, I get overwhelmed. I feel that positive energy in me. I get that peace of mind. So for you, it's the terrace, but for me, it's watching trees and just getting inspired by them
Himanshi Thakur
@GreyMatter · 0:53
Hi, Aditi. Thank you for replying. And I'm so glad to know that you stay among a lot of trees. And I particularly love the rustling of leaves when the winds are a little faster when it's windy. And the rustling of leaves of trees just transport me to another world. So I'm so glad that you're glad to live amongst so many trees in midst of greenery. That's truly therapeutic experience