Our actions define our journey in life. Our life is limited and mostly a mixed bag with happiness and pain accumulated together. Murakami says: “Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.” Many of us continue living a sedentary life or make negotiations with it. We start making ourselves accept that this is how life has …
Category Archives: Life
mornings
I have read multiple books and how successful people wake up early and start their day. I would laugh at it reading in my 20s because of the IRC conversation and late-night beer bash. I wake up early these days. It has become part of me. I feel like a different person: I get to …
point
It is easy to point fingers at others about their life or how they are operating businesses. It requires nothing. The person living a life or in the journey of it knows what they are into. They are the ones who have plans for it. As an outsider giving any opinion is a waste of …
true north
The world is a crazy place. You have to make a mark without cribbing, complaining, and crying. You have to work hard to go against all the odds. It’s a lone journey. It’s painful and full of failures. But It’s satisfying because you are trying and working for the bigger purpose of life. You have …
granted
We take our parents for granted, as they will live till eternity.It took me to realize how fragile life is after my father’s heart attack a few years back.I don’t live with them but have promised to spend 3-4 months every year with them.It is not easy for everyone because of jobs or other logistics.In …
complicate
We make our life complicated by getting into numerous webs of untangled and complicated relationships. Everything around us feels like we own some piece of it. As a result, our decision ends up a maze of checkboxes involving the world around us. Is this who we are? Living our needs and wants on others? How …
kid
We are so swamped with work and satisfying others that we have forgotten ourselves.The kid inside us has died or got forgotten.We are acing in our professional life and fulfilling everyone else’s needs. We should feel good about ourselves or act like that little kid who wants to break free and act crazy. It will …
learn
We don’t need to go out of our way to learn about life. We have people around us, and seeing and learning makes us better. We don’t have to go out or pay for some classes. These people around us motivate us and make us strive for the best. Every single minute we are learning. …
Insecurity
Has human insecurity resulted in consumerism? We want to look good, so we paint ourselves. But who defines: good or ugly? The fairness and whitening lotions. The anti-aging cream or artificial hair treatment. Is it, not an industry running on insecurity? In the end, what matters is who you are inside. This look, Instagram followers, …
sleep
Sleep deprivation is a thing.In one of the other ways, it is affecting me.I don’t know if it is coffee or overwork.I am getting Deja Vu after a long time. I am wondering about the culprit: coffee or work or noise around that is causing it.