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Recently, I have been thinking about something and I had to decide between two options and this situation reminded me of the concept I read about a few years ago. Things and situations in life come in a package. When you decide to do something, you are basically agreeing to the whole package despite not acknowledging it consciously. Indeed, It is not possible to grasp the complete sense of…
"we have a medical industry that is both financially and ideologically motivated to overstate the prevalence of illness, and we have a victimhood culture that encourages people to view themselves as oppressed by things they can’t control. In the middle of this we have ordinary people tempted to blame their problems on medical issues for the sake of easy answers." ~ Gurwinder Bhogal, Is liberal…
The issue with limited vocabulary we have to label our emotions and feelings. We have two words, at most, to describe majority of things that we feel throughout our day: happy and un-happy/sad. The hard black and white categorization. Everything is reduced to either the hedonistic pursuit of happy-ness or dreadful "un-happiness". Only recently have I noticed that how this is wrong on so many…
Constantly seeing yourself as broken or flawed is not the kind of mindset one should ever have. Nobody deserves to carry such a heavy mental baggage. Everyone has issues. Everyone has their own set of problems. Problems are not an issue. Life, in essence, is problem solving but having a skewed "broken" mindset, life becomes an issue in and of itself. Because every problem that arises does not…
Passive consumption is among the few things that leave us hollowed out after we engage with it. The worst form of it is the short form videos format. The Pattern is straight forward: We need meaning and purpose in life while our brain needs stimulus for it to move towards it. The meaning and purpose in life is not like a hanging fruit that we pluck and that is it. We need to experiment things,…
Someone posted that day "What makes us human ?" and that made me thinking. I thought about it from the perspective of what makes us human and also different from animals even though we are biologically same. There are many difference between animals and humans but I think the most important distinction that we have is our ability to have a pause before reaction. This reaction could be to a…
I have never been so disappointed in reading something as by this detailed two-part article about Dave Kunst, considered the first person independently verified to have walked around the Earth. It was such a bitter piece of writing that, rather than inspiring, it simply twisted my bowels the whole time. I was surprised by the issues that the writer had with Dave Kunst. Nothing mentioned in the…
When I read things on the internet, similar to my last short blog on Long Walks , they always provide me a familiar sense of comfort. Such reads help me slow down and I am able to spend some time with the writer in my calm imagination. They excite me to give these things a try in my life too. ... But doing them in real life often feels ”just - normal” . They are not that dramatically happy…
I like long walks. They allow you to discover places and move through streets and alleys very slowly. You absorb the texture of the city-the clothes hanging on the balcony, the shopkeepers sitting idle and the subtle differences in the architecture of the buildings. As you pass through streets you notice the smell from the shops and outlets, and the stink of sewers. The smells get connected to the…
Self- help is not a good genre to read. If you are someone living a normal life without any external metrics (otherwise provided by self help books), you are able to grow and transform with time , slowly and steadily. but the issue with the introduction of a self help book into your life is that you consume so much more than you can genuinely change about yourself. The concepts that you read…