If We Can Be Friends That Means We're Still In Love Or Never Were

I said I couldn’t do this It’s just too hard on me
How can you make it seem so easy?
We make small talk
Like we used to
But I’m always just pretending

I’ll say I’m fine on the phone
And that my silence just means
I’m getting tired
But I know when you say
You’re going to bed alone tonight
That we’re both being liars

I’m sorry this story can’t end as friends
The way you act like we never were, is just hell
And i’ll never understand how you can
Want me to watch you fall in love with someone else

You say you still want to know me
But what else is there to know?
I’ve shown you my best, my worst and more
We’ve kissed
We’ve made love
And now that’s just supposed to be ignored?

Whip me, burn me
Put salt in my cuts
Kick me, punch me
It could never hurt as much
As ignoring the fact
That we were once us

Pangong Lake: If there is paradise on Earth, it is here it is here

Ladakh Festival - Preserving Ladakh - 1st to 15th September

Ladakh Festival - 1st to 15th September (every year)

Start Date : 1st September 

End Date : 15th September 

Venue : Ladakh

Country : India

Category : Fair and Festival
Ladakh festival is a major event organized every year by the J&K Tourism Department, in collaboration with the local communities and the district administrations of Leh and Kargil from the 1st to 15th of September. Its main objective is to revive and promote the richness, depth and pageantry of Ladakh's centuries-old culture, traditions and folk heritage for worldwide appreciation and enjoyment.

The Ladakh Festival is a unique project of the State Department of Tourism to patronize the revival and promotion of Ladakh's age-old traditions and customs, its cultural heritage and the performing arts. For the tourists visiting Ladakh, the festival provides an opportunity to witness and experience the lifestyle and cultural ethos of a people who have lived for centuries on the crossroads of Asia, receiving and harmonising socio-cultural and religious influences from their neighbouring societies.

The inaugural function is a mega celebration held at Leh with a spectacular procession in which various cultural troupes and village contingents participate in full ceremonial costumes, singing songs and performing various types of dances to the tune of the traditional orchestra. At the Polo ground, where the procession terminates, the participants break into a variety of folk and popular dances, presenting the best samples of the region's performing arts. 

A major polo tournament called the "Ladakh Festival Cup" is also held as part of the festival in which polo teams from different parts of the region participate. Visitors to Ladakh during this period will have the opportunity of witnessing this ancient sport of the western Himalayas being played in its original, wild style with fewer rules and frenzied crowd involvement.

The Archery Festival, one of the most interesting festival held during Ladakh Festival, attracts lots of tourists from all over the India. It is a type of local programme held in the backwoods of Ladakh. The archery festival is a test of archery skills, where all males are supposed to participate passionately, in trying out their skills of perfect aiming in flip-flop rounds. The women also participate actively in dance rounds. Other programmes of the festival include a bizarre of evening musical concerts, mask dances by lamas of selected monasteries and mock marriage ceremonies complete with all related traditions.