About Me — Lumos Leviosa
Hey Everyone!
I’m Lumos (which is not my actual name by the way). If you are a Potterhead, you would have understood my User Name without any further explanation, but for those of you who haven’t read Harry Potter (Who are you and how are you even existing without reading Harry Potter :) ), I will take the burden of deciphering my name for you!
Lumos is a Wand-Lighting Charm that illuminates the tip of the caster’s wand, allowing the caster to see in the dark.
The term Leviosa is derived in part from the spell ‘Wingardium Leviosa’ which is a charm used to make objects fly, or levitate.
Stop right there, first learn how to pronounce it first, from our very own Hermione :)
‘It’s Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the “gar” nice and long.’
Okay, so enough of Harry Potter for now!
I am a 22 yr old girl, who loves to read, write and sing. I am a Carnatic Music singer, which is a classical form of Indian Music. I am an avid reader and much like Belle in The Beauty and the Beast, you can always find my nose in a book! I’ve always adored writing right from a very young age but was never actually serious about writing as a career up until now. I started writing a dystopian novel, but after writing about five chapters, I felt as if something was missing so I put it on hold for a while. Meanwhile, I’ve confined myself to writing as much as I can on Medium.
Coming to my education, I currently have an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, but hold on, don’t start imagining me as a hacker who cracks complex code and saves the world I’m not that hi-tech, no not at all. I love Computer Science — don’t get me wrong, but I still think that I am yet to carve my niche in that field if you know what I mean :). I have been placed in a good company quite recently and I’m going to start working pretty soon!
What makes me unique as a person and Why should you read my story out of thousands of good writers out there?
To answer the above questions, I would say that I’m not some super writer who recites Shakespearean-like poetry out of thin air! Neither am I a well-known writer on Medium (yet). But I can say that I do have quite a lot of interesting stories to tell you guys and I do know how to make you flex your mouth muscles (if that’s a word :( ) — to force a smile out of my readers. I am just like every one of you, just surviving, and hey, kudos to all of us for doing such a great job!
What do I want to achieve in life? What makes me happy?
Okay, so now we’re getting into the real stuff. Honestly, I do not know what I want to achieve in life. I just want to be someone who leaves their mark in the world, I want to make an impact. I want someone to be able to look up to me and say that they didn’t give up because of me (Forgive me if this sounds too over-dramatic! ). I do not have a perfect plan charted out as to what I’m going to doing in 10 years and neither do I want to make such a plan.
Why? because
- We never know where we are going to end up in the future and excessive planning, I feel that only leads to more disappointment.
- I’m too lazy to do so :(
Coming to happiness, I cannot point at one specific thing and tell that it symbolizes happiness. Happiness changes with time, place and is dependent upon your internal state of mind at that particular moment, so I do not think I can describe such a complex emotion with just a few words.
As I have already mentioned, I do not have any hard-core ambitions as of now. It's just that I have many, loose strands — which I can call my ambitions at present. Maybe it is a good thing, maybe it isn’t (let's wait!)
My description of myself would be incomplete if I do not mention my struggle with OCD — which stands for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. It is a disorder in which people have recurring, unwanted thoughts, ideas, or sensations (obsessions) that make them feel driven to do something repetitively (compulsions). There are still some days in my life where I feel completely overpowered by OCD, it is as if it has such a firm grasp on me sometimes that it is utterly arduous to escape its unyielding clasp. But I am working on it (I’m sure I will be writing an article about how I defeated OCD quite soon!).
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Aah, guess I’ll have to end this post now.
Cheers!
