What gets valued in the end?

It is harsh to accept that people value you based on how much you earn, what you do professionally or educationally, how much big a city you live in etc. Everybody says that it's kindness and humility that get valued in the end. But what about when it's not the end? When life is still …

We love illusions because it gives us an escape from reality.

In around 428 BC, There was a philosopher called Plato who told the world, "The reality is the shadow of ideas." To put this into simpler words, he meant that, the world we live in is nothing but an illusion, it is the shadow of the real world, the world of ideas. To explain this …

Is it necessary to have happy endings?

If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book. Why do we watch movies? Maybe because we all want an escape from our daily lives and experience something that can't be experienced in real life. We watch movies because they show us happy endings, we watch movies because, at …

Little things

How weird is it that we all are grown enough to take our own decisions and make plans that don't necessarily fulfill the expectations of our parents, and on the other hand our parents still look for their small child in us? We're busy finding our true selves, our hobbies, our likes, and dislikes, our …

Why are we so insecure about ourselves!

A few days back ago, one of my college mates had posted a video of her dancing on one of the trending songs. She deleted that post within a couple of minutes. Why did she do that?If she liked something to the level that she felt like posting it on social media, then what compelled …

We are all living our ‘plan B’

We heard people talking about their plan B. "I want to be a doctor but in case it won't happen, I’ve got a plan B and that is, I'll pursue my career in music."; "I want to visit that place, but if my finances won't allow then I'll settle for Manali."; "Today I want to …

Happiness is a choice – part 2

In the first part, we've talked about how our mindset decides our happiness. In this part, I would love to share with you an incident that will melt your heart and make you want to live more with whatever little you have. This incident happened when my friends and I were sitting on the side …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …