To my younger self

To my younger self, I'm now in a completely different time and space.But I want you to know a few crucial things anyways. I wish I could have known some of the things that I know now.I wish I could tell you about what, why, and how. I wish you had known about the people …

Something that breaks you, makes you stronger!

Most of us had some points in our life where we felt like giving up, where it felt like everything is crumbling down to ashes, where it felt like our world is slowly and gradually collapsing, where life felt so cruel to us. every day felt like doomsday. every word, every action felt so heavier, …

Nothing is more paradoxical than memories!

We put a lot of importance on creating memories. We want to capture and record every special moment of our life. People say, ' when nothing remains,  memories do'. So we put a huge emphasis on the positive role of memories. But isn't it the same memory that drags us into negativity? One of my …

Home within!

For many, home refers to a place where they've spent their childhood or where they've lived with their parents.But for me, home is a feeling!Home is your comforting place.Home is something that you carry within yourself. For many, home means another "special person".But for me, home means being "own kind of special" with yourself.Home is …

How do you want to be remembered?

Whenever we ask people, "how do they want to be remembered, most of them will reply with something really big, something really great in the eyes of society. Most of us want to become great scientist, great inventor, successful entrepreneur, celebrity, popular sportsperson, etc so that people can remember us. Earlier in my childhood, I …

Happiness is a choice

Arthur Ashe is the only black male to have won Wimbledon. He was the winner of three grand slams.Once, he had a heart attack, and to recover from it he did a bypass surgery. During the blood transfusion process, he got infected with AIDS due to the contaminated blood he received. Later on, he announced …

The strength in our scars

Every now and then we vituperate our life by saying that it has never been fair enough to us. We hold our past within us that is hurtful, cruel, and sometimes traumatic. once in a while we visit our past in our head and replay all the moments that once hurt us, that once tried …

7 life lessons I didn’t learn in school.

Life is the greatest teacher. All the following lessons I've learned either from my closest friends, family members or through experience. I'm happy to share it with you.Here we go. 1)The person who hurts you, is hurt himself/ herself.Many times, we encounter a situation where a person hurts us by saying bitter words or by …

What social media giants don’t tell you about?

The recent 6 hours long outage of social media services like Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp has made the world realize that how dependent we are on these platforms and the internet. This is a live example of how mere six hours can change a lot. People become anxious at this because they were cut off …

The hidden characters behind the book ‘Animal farm’ and what message does it hold for the present generation.

Excerpt from the book. Animal farm' is written by the author George Orwell, published in 1945. The book reflects events swinging up to Russian Revolution and then on into stalin era of the soviet union. Animal farm tries to depict the situations unfolding during on and after the Russian revolution. In this book, each human, …

5 downfalls no one talks about being popular.

Most of us want to succeed in life so that we become popular among people. It's almost everybody's dream to bring glory to their name. We are all constantly running behind something to keep ourselves forward from others. We know that popularity brings money, fame, fans, and luxury, but we don't really predict the pandora …

Life is beautiful.

"Life", the simplest word, yet the most difficult to understand.what is it about it that's so grand? Why we curse life every now and then?Oh no! It happened to me again.Why life always chooses me for the tough times?What have I done, that's bigger than the crime?These are the questions we ask ourselves while cursing …

The meaning of life

In a book called ' man's search for meaning', the author Viktor Frankel talks about his agonizing  experience as a prisoner in Nazi concentration Camps during world war ll and methods he used to find meaning in his suffering.It's a story of hope that forces you to think what life is really all about.Well, I …