My Thoughts and I (A Love Story)

In her first collection of navigating the various alleyways of life, relates her poems, twenty-something-year-old Asavari, while run-ins with different characters and situations.

During her walk that sometimes turns into sprints some epiphanies come to her as expected, due to the inevitability of circumstance and some that seemingly pop out of nowhere.

She chronicles her changes in perspective through poetry while doing the walk of life with the proverbial dark cloud of mental illness tagging along. Her poems, as described by her, are just conversations between her and her diary.

This book is called My Thoughts and I: A Love Story. These poems were written with reference to my relationship with my thoughts. I have always been completely enamored by literature and books. One day. while writing in my diary I ended up writing a poem and it wasn't too bad. After that day writing poems became my coping mechanism while struggling with mental illness and whatever life threw at me. This book was my version of making lemonade.

All the poems that have written depict who was when I wrote them. Every poem represents a time in my life that has contributed to shaping the character of my truth today. They are all as important to me as the day they were written. The role they have played is relevant as the role of the version of me that exists in the present will have in shaping the perception that I am yet to develop.

I want to thank my Mom, Neelanjana Bose, for being an unconditional, unwavering wall of support throughout this time. I also want to thank Baisali Chatterjee Dutt, Babi Mashi for me, who was the catalyst in making this book happen.

**Contents and Sample Pages**