Life is imperfect, and things usually don鈥檛 turn out how we want, and the same seems to have happened with me and my dog. They say that every dog has a different personality, but there are days when I feel I have been shortchanged for a bad apple. 馃槄 You may ask what鈥檚 wrong with my dog, but that鈥檚 for later. My dog is almost 3 years, and you may be asking why I am bringing this up. What does it have to do with life? I would say - a lot. ...
The dream of being financially free and retiring is dear to every working human, but if you ask them what they will do with their retirement, that is not clear. At least not to the majority. This creates a problem in fulfilling the dream. If we could clearly visualize what we wanted, we could undoubtedly get it. I think that鈥檚 true. Not because of some cosmic power that would bring us closer to the goal but because clarity empowers action. ...
I have always wondered why it鈥檚 complicated to talk to a person close to us but so exciting to open up to a random stranger we just connected with? We always emphasise that communication is the key to any relationship, but we end up struggling for a conversation. Fear of Being Judged When we talk to someone we already know, we fear being judged. People always judge! Maybe we are trying to be better, and our past actions do not coincide with the newer self. ...
Networking must have been essential to human evolution. It is a tool that enables us to do things that we cannot do alone. When humans were still evolving, networking was a necessity, but today it鈥檚 a skill we must have to prosper in our community. What do you need to get good at building networks? Today I want to explore a set of questions sitting in the back of my head. Why do we connect with some people and not with others? What qualities make us feel that it鈥檚 worthwhile relating to someone? And more importantly, what qualities should a person possess so that other human beings desire them. ...
Hello Pikachu, Do you know a sure way to tell if someone is in love? In love, a person becomes hopelessly romantic and crave a medium to let it out. They express their emotions through poetry, songs and letters and I鈥檓 writing this to you. You are the piece peace of me that I鈥檝e been looking for. I鈥檝e been blessed with an almost perfect life and you just took away the almost. Maybe it was my heart that didn鈥檛 let it be perfect? Or maybe it was yours that was designed to fit in that cage better? I don鈥檛 know but you did well, taking mine away and leaving me yours. ...
It is said that we are ignorant and we have stopped thinking about the inevitable end but I think we haven鈥檛. Instead, I believe we understand it鈥檚 certainty and we avoid spending energy thinking about it. We know that an end will come but we don鈥檛 like to imagine when or how painful it would be to die but we are sure that it will. Grief is a natural response to a personal loss. When you lose someone who is never going to come back the same way it can be devastating. Death hurts and grief is a natural response to it. Shed tears, dump your heart out and do everything that needs to be done. Such a loss can be shared with other loved ones, who are grieved by your grief. Lucky are those who have someone around them who can share their grief, otherwise, to the world, it鈥檚 all a mocking game, generally. Blessed are those who feel pained from the pain of others. They are the saviours, saving this world from becoming an orphanage. Only this true care for another being is what makes a family otherwise everyone is selfish to some degree and then what else should I call this world if not an orphanage. ...
I completed reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari and what a read it has been. It was long but the wisdom I gathered is baffling. I am very sceptical when famous people like Elon Musk and Bill Gates recommend a book but I did read this one and it has been an eye-opener. There is one topic which Harari talks about a lot and that is Capitalism. And in this article, we鈥檒l see how too much of it is ruining our life. ...
Hope is the remedy world advocates to all the problems in life. How could ever being optimistic be a bad thing? I am a firm believer that optimism can solve almost all our problems, but recently I found out that maybe sometimes it鈥檚 okay to lose hope. Excess of anything is not good so is true with hope. If you ever become so hopelessly hopeful about an event happening you will overpower your intelligence and instinct and stay in limbo wondering about things that might never happen. ...
We all know the story of the clever crow who used stones to get access to deep water in the earthen pot but what if I say that it鈥檚 not the complete story? What if it was the utopic version of an utter disaster? And his cleverness the cause of his death? The crow, albeit clever, and with a good intension started dropping stones in the pot. When he saw the water level rise he was ecstatic. He was very thirsty but now that was not important. The adrenalin rush of having used his brain to get access to something that no one else could was giving him joy. He was enjoying himself and then he obsessed and here is his downfall. ...
It is highly underestimated how much importance we put in instant likeness. We value what we like naturally. This might not be a bad thing per se but we ought to understand what this method of decision making brings with it. We all have known by now that there are no silver bullets in life and that holds for this behaviour of ours. I鈥檝e observed that the things that have given me longer-lasting happiness were things which I didn鈥檛 like at the first glace. Sound very weird, I know but I have examples from my own life that I鈥檒l share. I鈥檓 forced to believe that the deliberate persistence and hard work we do towards anything can give birth to liking and that lasts more than our instant infatuation. ...