Last year around October, Anurag wrote a post on procrastination and it hit my head like one hits nail with hammer. In his post, he has covered every part of procrastination in details, go ahead and read it. This post is about my procrastination habit and how it has screwed most part of me. I realized i was …
Category Archives: Life
The ice cream chronicle #1
After over a month I headed to Polar Bear for an ice cream. I was not craving for it but went because during the day I was served with shit load of sugar in my lunch. I thought why not make it a cheat day. I have this tight cheat day eating policy, If I …
Random Thoughts: Why are we scared of losing?
Human mind is a monkey mind as Naval says. We are constantly worried about our future and work hard towards making it better. At times we get so busy in it that we forget about living in this very beautiful moment, the present which is constantly passing. At the same time we start overthinking and …
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Notes from reading: On shortness of life by Seneca
Senaca was one advisor to emperor Nero from Rome. He was also one of the founding father of stoics school of philosophy. In this chapter Seneca writes about our life and how short our life is in general. These are some notes from the book: Life is short, art is long. Our life is amply …
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Looking back at 2017
Pheww. 2017 is almost gone, what a fantastic year this has been so far. The year went by like a joyride with it’s own share of happiness, pain, losses and learnings. The best part of it all is that am still breathing and all of my body parts are working alright. In short, everything has …
Random Thoughts: Other’s mind
What is going on the other side? The mind of people around you? Are we able to get the other side of story? We have our own predefined construct about some person or situation and if the result is favorable we are happy else we are in pain. It is not easy to read others …
Random Thoughts: On Death
Death is the reality of life and most of us are scared about it. We try accumulating so much of wealth & enormous materialistic possessions. I have no clue if the kings/queens/riches of mummified world are using them after death. I’ve been told that most of the wealth left behind by the wealthy nobility and …
Random Thoughts: Few Such Friends
Everything in life is temporary and as we grow older we tend to realize this even more. The school friend of mine whose lunch box used to be opened by all of us soon after he entered our class has disappeared, I don’t even know if he is alive. I am 32 now and as …
Notes from reading: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius by Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius was Roman emperor and also a stoic aka believer of stoicism, a school of Philosophy that flourished throughout the Roman and Greek world until the 3rd century AD. The Meditations is his thoughts on various aspect of life as collection of books which are all combined as chapter here. These are some notes: All existing things soon change, and …
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Notes from Reading: Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard’s Almanack by Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin is considered as father of modern America. His versatile expertise and contribution in Literature, politics, science, philosophy, law and many other areas helped in re-shaping America. He was a prolific reader as well as writer, a true believer of virtues. In early days he wrote Poor Richard’s Almanack, it holds true even in 21st …