Ark's digital garden
Every thing I do in life, I do to be happy. But why doesn’t the happiness stick? The reactions I have to life and my proactiveness towards any activity are driven by my feelings towards the external stimuli. And I’m still figuring out what my feelings towards a lot of things are so they’re influenced very easily. It feels very ordinary to be happy when there’s a happy experience and sad when…
When I first landed in New York 7 years ago, I felt so lost. I didn’t know anyone here, I’d never used public transport, and the few dollars in my pocket felt too precious to spend. My apartment in Bushwick was a so different from what I was used to back home. And my roommates had accents I’d never heard before. I probably had an accent they’d never heard before! Over the next few weeks, I got…
I loved the internet growing up. My first computer was from MicroTek ( I think that’s how its spelled) and my dad and I sat infront of it trying to boot up Windows 98. I didn’t do a lot with the computer as a child. When I was 3, my school would make us learn the alphabets and my mom showed me how to open up Excel and type them out. It was really fun. And I kept up this habit of using Excel well…
I am in a rut. I wake up, make coffee, login to work, talk to coworkers, log out, sleep. And between the doldrums of work, I eat. This has been the pattern of my life over the last 5 years. I read that the older you get, the faster time moves. Because the days start to look the same. A friend recommended that the best way to get out of a funk is to do something small, anything that would take 5…