The allure of writing is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can…
Growing up, I was close to my mom’s side of the family. I was the only girl until I…
In order to get where you want to go, you’re going to have to grow as a person.
Edit: This is part of a series that culminated here, Next post. Previous post.
Edit2: I consolidated all the posts of the piscine daily posts here
Edit3: You can read up about what it’s like as a cadet at 42 here
If all of ours lives could go the way we wanted it to go with no obstacles, no struggles, no pain would we be…
A staccato whistle accompanying the lush sound of the guitar strings. A piercing voice “Konjum pooranamae.. vaa”. The “vaa”.. pleading, beseeching us. If pain had a voice, this would be it. Oh the raw pain. The core, unadulterated pain of existence. The pain of love…
The Idea that You Can Only Change Yourself is Garbage.
“You can only ever change yourself” isn’t even true when you are trying to change yourself. You can…
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to…
“When nothing seems to help I go back and look at the stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a…
Too Soon
In my part of the world, when a friend or colleague is bereaved, the words “take heart”, “God knows best”, “accept my condolence”. “I’m sorry about your loss”, “may God console you” are consistently heard via calls and voice notes and seen in writing especially via SMS and Whatsapp.
Quitting my job, moving to a new city by myself, and changing careers has been incredibly difficult. In…
A strange thing sometimes happens when I promote the idea of acting on principle rather than in…
來看看JOY當媽後~如何找到自己的熱情所在與人生意義！
We all read and watch the speeches and quotes of success-failure shit by prominent people for motivating ourselves…
Self worth and productivity
I just read an article about how if one is depressed the best way to fight it is by being productive. That to me shows a lack of…
Be here now.
For twenty years, my research has shown that the…
After a night drinking party, for sure, you will wake up with a throbbing headache and stomach rolling…
本月初第一次造訪在平陽新加坡工業區重新裝潢的台式鐵板燒「Top Food Teppanyaki」，覺得CP值頗高，蠻值得推薦給在越南工作的大家（當然平常來旅遊的不太可能來到平陽啦，畢竟比胡志明還無聊XD）
Some people believe that everything in life is binary, Zero or One, Black or White. I strongly disagree. On the contrary, I believe that everything in life is grey. Or rather gradient would be a better term.
Being 25, which in the western culture, potrays the adults having fun and struggles, living their best life at the same time finding their footing in life. Ahh how good it is to be worrying about your own self’s goals, to focus on yourself. While in the Asian culture, being…
People often wonder how things would have turned out to be only if they had grabbed that lucrative opportunity ages ago. Regretting the chances they didn’t take. Only, they didn’t realise the potential of those opportune moments, even when they were so tangible. Now…
Don’t wait for retirement, the time to start living is now.
(Day 10 of evolution.)
Some people will never understand why I love my hometown so much. Ketchikan is, after all, a small and isolated town, once highlighted in an ADN article as the home of “rain-weary” houses “in need of paint.” I know many of my friends who grew up in…
In the daily grind of post-modern living we get accustomed to routine. We live…
It’s futile to judge a book by its market performance but leaving that aside for now…
Do you ever had a yearly birthday wish list?
Are those wishes you have had ever granted?
Most things come to an end and life, as precious as it is, is no exception to this rule…
A Great Suicide
Kithy was walking on road with restlessness. She stopped at hardware store when she saw the advertisement board. She entered the store with…
I saw some signsThat made me fall for you;They were in your words;In the toneOf your voice;And I am now seriouslyIn love with you
…falsely chosen?…falsely spoken?
When I was in college, I used to joke around with another guy at the college radio station…
I was so confused.
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left,
many people think ordinary is bad. i was recently talking to a friend who said their biggest fear was being ordinary or…
Collaboration over competition
This is something I’ve been saying on repeat, ad nauseaum to folx within the non-profits and activist circles for years. Whether its for creating brand recognition, getting more funding or working in teams but to seek validation from our supervisors and bosses. It’s competition driving us…
Some of you may or may not know, but due to my condition, I rely on health…
A fresh graduate who is invited to a technology company to work there as quality assurance and less than 6…
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It’s been a curious year and a half. These are the moments that become lessons. These are those times that I’ll look back on and tell people about…
When it is you holding yourself back
There’s a big difference between values we learn as a kid and values we practice as an adult. Somewhere in between, we change our values to work-practically. So is there even a point of teaching children the impractical values?
We all know that life isn’t cotton candies. Even if it is, it may cause you diabetes, which is terrifying. So, is life terrifying? Well……….
Living in a fast lane isn’t also cotton candies. It’s exhausting, sometimes it has the ability to drain people’s mental stability. People with…
It’s been two years since I became a college student in the US. America is a multicultural country, and there is a variety of people with different backgrounds. However, it doesn’t mean I could force my way of thinking onto others. As I was growing up in Japan…
People have been saying “Mind your business” for a lifetime. But what does it actually…
To my best friend,
My Meredith, My Yang!!!
God bless the day you were brought in to this world because girl, I wonder who can handle my energy level and understand me so well!!! You are my safe place even before and…
Growing up in a household with 2 other sisters and being the middle child, my story…
The Neverlands
What I’m trying to say… Never have i been that clean. Nothing Mike Jack smooth about me. I’m a self-servant, reflection-observing, love yearnin’, soul serpent, mood of a mess. Play it just right and in the box to the left my insecurities go. Gotta be patient tho, i have a lot of em so it’ll take some time. One…
What makes me write this article ? Well, so the idea to write this story came to my mind while walking to work today morning.
or you and the other voice(s)
“If you try, there’s no guarantee you’ll be successful, but if you don’t try there is a…
This year seems to be a year for letting go. Most would think that this is about love, the painful kind of love…
We will not forgetwhat we…
Quem eu sou?
Não sou as verdades que reconheço em mim
Dear Mom Diaries Pt 4, Motherhood is a great thing. The feeling of always feeling needed or wanted is amazing (and…
Traveling Through This Digital Age.
Carl sat in the store managers office, his brown hair sticking up from the baseball cap he had been wearing before…
I came here unprepared (let here be the universe). At least, that’s how I feel. The…
i never understand worldi never understand humani never understand youor me
have you everbeing curiousand do nothingno, can not do a thing
Hello all! This week is special because it is our only week of preseason this year. An interesting new schedule, for sure, but I intend to make the most of my time without school work, in both training and fun! I hope you enjoy!
Hello, Welcome to my Self-Help Blog series!
I have read a lot of books about self-development and self-help during my studies in school. In this first blog, I’m going to write about the importance of “TIME” and importance of the question “WHY?”.
Hoy en Bogotá llueve a cantaros, hace mucho no escuchaba las gotas de lluvia golpear tan fuerte contra el techo y los ventanales. El sonido de…
Day 2 of our whirlwind Portugal adventure started at 8:30 am, meeting Paolo, our tour guide for the day. We booked an all-day tour of Sintra, 20 km north of Lisbon, full of castles, history, and the entire city is a UNESCO…
Last month I was in Mumbai, I had to wait at station for an hour for journey. So I went to canteen at LTT station. While having snacks I was observing people around me. It was an early Sunday morning, Not much crowded compered to CST. Cleaning of station was in progress , Canteen workers were organizing trays and…
It’s over, we’ve moved on
To this so called ‘better life’
I never want to come by here and bore you with my life stories. Matter of fact I…
When I wrote this in 2013, I’d had a nasty head cold for a few days. That day I felt better (though not yet well) and it was such a relief that it reminded me of something important:
It’s better to feel improved than to feel good.
Feels the wind blew slowly, touches my skin gentlyWaiting for the train comes up Looking at my reflection face on the mirror And the nicest sunshine at 03:00 pm
Last night I was talking with my twenty one year old daughter, as she had to do her law homework. Somehow she had a small existencial crisis. She was reviewing the relationship she had with her high school friends and concerned, told me, she did not want to belong to the…
Find your spaceThe placeWhere you belongFeel the stressStream from your mindRetreatWhere your heartFeels only…
With the massive dream of being an IITian and so many different expectations from parents, teachers and relatives the so-called 10th standard 10 CGPian is entering a different phase of his educational life. Yes, here I am going to talk about my JEE story…
I completely agree this is what matters. Less about how “similar” you are to the other person, but when you boil it down do you value the “core” virtues of the other person. I have plenty of friends that are 100% different from me on the surface, but we share core beliefs. These are people I know can I can count on and they know they can count on me.
Good story, thanks for sharing!
I know what you mean on not wanting to come back….from the place you found peace.
I skipped out from heatstroke:
Went from running all out midway into a 10K and I just passed out. From 3rd overall to a pile on the ground. I would have died had…
Enough data.
Enough experience.
Enough time.
Enough confidence.
Enough money.
Enough willpower.
Man’s search for meaning by Victor E Frankl (12 million copies sold!)
Way of the peaceful warrior a book that changes people’s lives!
The alchemist by Paulo Coelho - my wife has read all his books!
Things get interesting when you least expect them to. That’s when you should take the extra effort to go and experience something that is completely out of your control.
Made a sandwich for lunch.
Like the japanese art of Kintsukuroi “golden repair”, we all should learn to love our faults, our cracks and fill them with gold. Not thinking broken it’s ugly, it is beautiful.
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PreambleSajal Ahmed is a powerful…
As a group, its our fault if anyone did not complete the work assigned. Its our duty to ensure that everyone has done the job. We are in this together and we fail as a group if all the work is…
1-Wash your hair under shower let go all the negativity.
2- On Sunny days get up earlier and walk without destination, without worryes.
3- Go to some parks, connect your self with nature.
Good evening, folks.
I am now almost a bottle of wine deep into my night and I would like to update you all on my life.
Buckle up your seat belts, folks. (Just kidding, it isn’t that exciting).
Note: all characters, events are fictional
Hanna:
My friends know that I listen to them no matter what they want to share; cool or ugly experience. While no one will help…
Hi, Joey
Thanks for this post, which stirred memories.
My cousin, Michael, and I loved each other so much that as preteens we wanted to get married.
No matter that, as adults, our lives rocketed in opposite directions (his to a fancy home in a D.C. neighborhood, mine to a…
In the grey city
(doesn’t matter which one)
Almost all of us despise them. For those who might have pets, you-know fleas and ticks are astoundingly hard to get a grip on. And so they aren’t simple to become gone if you consume them. Retaining fleas and ticks away your furry friend shields your own pets, and individuals and regions across them out…
I do want to hear you! I will settle with by phone or otherwise. Since, at the moment- I have no real choice.
Preparing for all the goodness!
There is nothing that cuts like condescension.
My friend asked me “ What can I do to stop turning 20?”. It came as a surprise to me considering she is someone who enjoys life . This question might just seem more usual than we’d like to think.
So then we ask “ What causes such a change “ . Is it the fear of taking up responsibilities and living up to expectations? Is it…
The real deniers are the ones that deny a historical event, like the holocaust, ever occurred.
The real climate deniers are the ones who deny that recent past climates, hotter or colder than now, existed.
The millions of people who were affected by extreme heat and prolonged droughts in the 30s have…
Tá tudo pré-determinado. Até certo ponto.
Tá tudo pré-determinado. Você nasce, vai pra escola, fica lá por alguns anos estudando a mesma coisa que todo mundo, algumas coisas úteis, a maioria inútil. No máximo faz um esporte, aprende a tocar um instrumento musical, uma aula de línguas. Daí vem o ensino médio e a primeira…
Why, when I often think of the welfare of others, do I always have to experience so much misfortune?
You are the only person shopping for yourself. Contractors in brightly colored t-shirts shop for others via Instacart or Amazon…
I had a discussion with one of my friend Ashish. He told me what he likes , what he wants to do in life stuff like that. I said “ if you don’t want to do engineering, why don’t you just drop-out, you are just in 2nd year do something you like, it’s your life don’t…
It was a breezy evening in February, Alankrita and Nimi sat on the terrace drinking tea and painting the wall. They wanted…
The truth I know is inside of me.
Everything hurts -Michelangelo
It’s sad that anyone would insist on this.
First, and not in order of importance, been there done that. It’s not that great. Get over it.
Second, when your partner says no to anything about you doing something to their body that should be the end of the discussion.
Didn’t she tell you she had a boyfriend? Why then did you keep disturbing her? She rejected your calls and you sent her text that made her pity you, she finally picks and you said…
Well… I am about tell a story…A story which will not be appreciated by certain people, by certain people i mean the people who recognizes my face and they think they know me. I mean it’s not their fault because i, myself have made that ME character for them. Of course…
In a certain place, at a certain time in history, people were living in a Sky Scraper. For obvious safety reasons, the architect had provided all balconies and windows with a railing, a “garde-fou”. To make sure there would never be any fatal accident, they…
Me and Saurav.Saurav is or i should say was one of my friend who left the kgp campus and…
One summer afternoon as I was hiking down an unpaved trail of a national park in central California I noticed two names carved…
We all have ups and downs. Everyone has their worst days.. surviving them is part of life.
You might feel stuck in a downward spiral and the world is contracting around you. You feel restless, dissatisfied, sad, and impossibly anxious. You sit there stewing and trying to remain calm in the knowledge that emotions are…
Living behind a screen with anonymity provides people with a sense of pride and strength…
I’m starting to realize why I’m leaving the cliche of Money Can’t Buy Happiness.
I have become so myopically focused on the promise I made to myself when I was a kid, I have never stopped to ask; “Why do I wanna get rich?”.
As we lighten up new cigars and the hours are getting late
Him : "oh babe, adult-ing is never easy"
Her : *laugh and blow her cigars* "well, it will never be.."
Memories are fading, they leave in me an empty spaceNo longer can hold onto them, need to free myselfTime passes away, I know I’ll heal in the end
Stocks are doing it again. Making me loads of money in my free and spare time. It is one of…
The dictionary will say that growth is simply PROCESS of increasing in size. Process huh… so it takes time, involves change of form and has a particular end. We rarely feel growth ourselves but after some time, we might observe that things have actually changed. Maybe the body is bigger…
I’ll make it really short because this is old and almost everyone has written something about this, but the truth it that keeps coming back!!!
It looks like a simple question but it isn’t. I asked some of my frineds, so i could get someperspective on young…
I feel as though the “feel good friends” are perhaps more of an acquaintance than a true friend. I love Aristotle’s thoughts on the enduring and value that’s brought to real and true friendships. I understand that implication of shared hardship and the permanent residue and bonds that they create. They are foundational and enduring. They stand for…
The alarm does not confront you with its mulish argument
La pensée à travers le temps.
Elle part de rien ou d’un truc énorme, elle tombe par surprise ou elle découle de multiples événements. Elle peut passer…
So I recently went to Wonder La this weekend with the other bootcampers. For those of you who don’t know Wonder La is an amusement park situated in the outskirts of Bangalore. It is considered to be one of the best amusement parks in India offering a large variety of thrilling and high intensity…
Access to the internet has become one of life’s basic necessities for people all over the world. Wherever we go, the first…
Arguably so.
There are mixed economies (socialist/capitalist) that function well. But is there a functioning pure capitalist or pure socialist country anywhere?
I don’t think so.
Contradictory Hippocratical Frustrations of Ranting Lunatic.
Get a job--work for it, but also volunteer, but also go to your therapy, but also pray, keep going to dance class, but go outside itll be good for you, but don’t be outside it’s too hot. Take your meds, but don’t rely in them, be happy, but don’t rely on your art…
I am starting to feel again. This feeling, is it happiness, it must be because I am smiling…
Nice. Very nice.
As I was saying that I’ve hear that I was the most beautiful baby ever in the eyes of my mom and grandma… shocker. But to this day they still tell me I am so beautiful and I hear it so many times that I should start to believe it. Some days I do and some I don’t.
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I really love the entire article, starting fresh is super important. I think we often wait far too long for that “aha moment” to hit us, or for some special occasion to mark the day.
All too often we dwell in the past. We remember when we weren’t so knowledgeable, we remember the time we messed up in front of everyone on…
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“ I said you need to strive to better than everyone else. I didn’t say you needed to be better than everyone else. But you gotta try. That’s what character is. It’s in the try.”
“The purpose of the iron is to train your mind. Physique is just a side effect.”
It was a beautiful evening at the beginning of the harmattan season, the cold air from the sea was settling in calmly while the stars adorned the sky above. I had only stopped by the grocery store after church to get some plantain chips and kulikuli. At the exit of the store sat a lovely…
“Grandma said at times you’ll feel a sting,
There’ll be sharp turns and uphills and closed doors.
Then she said hold on to your faith,
Okay I’ll start writing. So, here I am a man who wants to be a president but had lack of knowledge. First of all, I deliver may deepest sorry for you who read this if my grammar makes you want to give me some course… lol (for me). Hmm actually I don’t feel this grammar is a problem for…
Vodoo Jackasses
Now a lot of you probably wonder who is this guy and why does he want to die? Or maybe what Am I doing here is this how my life is right now? ( don’t expect me to disagree, it sure seems pretty low. )
But what isn’t nowadays?
It’s an unobserved fact that majority of us glide on the unassailable time with loads of confidence bestowed by gushing hormones of teenage or by the overly-hyped Half-Truth fantasized stories. We ride this rollercoaster perpetually because of never ending brainwashing done by intricate…
For a little over two years, I have been working part-time at my local Whataburger. A little over two years of working with and serving what can only be described as a colorful cast of individuals.
What do you do when you hit the inevitable rut where you don’t know what to talk about?
Like seriously, I’m fresh out of juice.
This is the worst part of the writing experience, in my opinion. It’s always a fun moment to get some inspiration and…
The next generation, I believe, will want a successful business but not at the…
I wrote this piece not long after the Parkland shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. I…
“Do you love mummy or papa?” Counselor asked to Arush, a 9 year old kid, when his mother, Radhika and father, Manish came for divorce and were having the second last meeting for it.
“Both” Arush said innocently.
“I mean, with whom do want to live with?” Counselor asked.
It feels like it was only yesterday — the day I first laid eyes on you. You with your heavily gelled wavy black hair whilst parading up and down only to catch my attention on purpose. Followed by the constant hurling of compliments that would make me turn red like a tomato.
