Aarsh Malik
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Poet and storyteller who believes in the quiet power of words. Sharing self-help insights, fiction, and poetry on Vocal.
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Anaesthetist by profession.
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My First Tip
Sometimes, when you share your writing on a platform, it can feel like sending a paper boat into a very wide ocean. You wonder if anyone will notice it drifting by. There are days when your words seem to disappear into silence, and you quietly keep writing anyway.
By Aarsh Malik4 days ago in Poets
A Different Kind of Freedom: Reflections on Women’s Day
Every year on the 8th of March, the world fills with slogans about women. Social media lights up with bright posters, companies post polished messages, and speeches echo the same familiar phrase: “Celebrate women’s freedom.”
By Aarsh Malik4 days ago in Humans
My Voice Is Back
There was a strange silence in my account for a while. Not the peaceful kind. The heavy kind. It was the kind of silence that lingers in the background, even when everything else looks normal. The stories were still there. The platform was still moving. People were still writing, sharing, reacting. But for me, something essential had paused. A part of my participation had been quietly switched off.
By Aarsh Malik11 days ago in Confessions
Still Here, Just Unable to Respond
I send my words like paper boats to sea, they drift in light, but never back to me. My name still stands where voices used to grow, yet every answer fades before it shows. To speak, be heard, yet never truly meet, is half a heartbeat skipping in defeat.
By Aarsh Malik18 days ago in Confessions
Tragedy in Rhode Island: When Violence Shattered an Ordinary Day
The gunshots in Rhode Island did not begin when the weapon fired. They began much earlier, in a mind that slowly shifted from frustration to fixation, from anger to action. By the time the trigger was pulled, something inside the shooter had already hardened.
By Aarsh Malik24 days ago in Psyche
