Playing a victim card can take us somewhere. We cannot live life with it. The world is a miserable place. Every other day something happens, and it will occupy the centre stage. You have to heal your trauma. You have to face the world and make your life count. No one else can heal you, but only you and your fearlessness.
move
How many of us die without expressing our love to someone. How many of us live in our permutations and combinations about life. How things have changed if we had done this or that.
Our brain likes to confuse us. As a result, a good amount of present gets wasted thinking of the unchangeable past. We dwell in the past and stop living in the present.
I am not saying I am perfect. But I realised about it living half of my life. Our present is what should matter and it will cement our future. Our past is gone, be it good or bad. We have to move on.
Women’s Day
A woman has to go through many challenges in her life. She is a multi-tasker: a mother, sister, wife, or entrepreneur. She has to compete with men and society every day to prove her worth.
Religious fundamentalists in a few countries have made them an object for pleasure or baby-producing machines with all the restrictions.
Thankfully things are changing, but it is just a beginning. I hope the coming decades will get much better.
Happy Women’s day. Many have gone against all the odds and made life for themselves. I am lucky and blessed to have a few in my life. They are a source of power and positivity to me.
Mandala
In the last few months, I have lost track of many things. I have gotten sick a few times. As a result, less focused as well.
I am finally getting to try mandala, hoping it will help me get back to reading and writing. I remember reading about it in Carl Jung’s autobiography long back.
Possibility
We live a life of infinite possibility. Our actions, efforts, and some luck get us what we want. And sometimes giving our best, our desired result gets un-achieved. We have to leave it at that.
A few went against the odds and made freedom; innovation possible. Gandhi, Martin Luther, Wright Brothers are a few pioneers.
We are the owner of our destiny.
We hold the possibilities.
self
The world is burning, and millions of lives are lost due to hunger, overeating, and war.
We can be a cheerleader, supporters, or take sides. At the same time, we can do our part by being more responsible with what we are consuming.
We want to eat seafood or enjoy the chill in an air conditioner. Alternatively, talk about global warming and the extinction of marine life.
The duality is within us. We have to do our job and be responsible before telling others.
Inflammation
Last few years, I have spent some time reading about body and health. In due course, I have tried numerous diets. I was able to lose weight. I have realized that our health depends on what we eat, and it is not about calories in or out. Our quality of food distinguishes our life.
I remember laughing at Vinay (my friend) when he would say I have come to meet, not eat at any of our meetings at restaurants. At max, he would have some green tea.
After recovering from COVID, I spent some time reading about vegetable oil and the inflammation it has been causing me for over a decade. I would get boils over my face hours after eating out. I have started making a note entry these days, where I eat, what I eat, and If I got boils.
Some of my friends know the limited options I have now when I join them for food. Some others call out my crazy experiment and tell me I am missing out on so many great things life has to offer.
On the contrary business, meetings have gotten limited to drinking green tea.
I have started making a joke saying food is just fuel, and my taste buds have died. I want to live a healthy life and be okay with living and eating this way.
relations
I have been reminded time and again that we thrive with people around mutual care, respect, and trust.
At times, we are less closed to our siblings than our friends. Our secrets, success, and happiness are shared and celebrated with them all.
In the end, we are close with a chosen few, who are with us in every part of our life. Some of us are closer to each other than even our parents.
Build relations that last till eternity; rest will be well in life.
sides
We are biased and crave what fulfills our ideology. NATO/UN have given great attention to the Russian aggregation. Ukraine will be part of NATO anytime soon, it seems.
I am not saying what is happening in Ukraine is right. But what I would have ideally liked is that these organisations equal attention to other merciless killings Be it in the middle east, Africa, or Asia.
travel
Can travel recharge us? Despite us carrying all our pain in our head?
Travel is considered a solitude and peaceful experience. I am not sure how much of it is correct. In smartphones, we carry our existing world and experience less travel.
We are all digital nomads, we are no more traveling but shit posting on social media for the world to know we are traveling.
How much of it calms us down or adds perspective in our life as to who we are?