Truthfully imperfect

              There has been a scarcity of peaceful days over the last few months—a continuous occurrence of incomprehensible events happening consecutively that has completely messed up my pace of thought.           It has become a privilege just to be able to look at the evening sun without worrying about exams, assignments, or replies. Like most people at different points in their lives, I too began to wonder if this was it for the rest of my life, struggling to keep up with the day that doesn’t wait for me to catch my breath.            It almost amuses me to walk around the grounds trying to find some inspiration—to find what’s missing in my life that could maybe make things a bit more interesting, give me some new feelings, or let me escape this reality just for a few moments.            There used to be a time when I put my headphones on and listened to any k...

          Has anyone thought of themselves as a failure at any point in their lives? Well most of us if not all. A person tends to consciously distract themselves from their own goals when an easier path is set in front of them. And it’s not because they are lazy or they lack the will to strive for something greater but because of their own doubts. The questions which quite frequently pops up in their heart is whether the path they are on warrantees the result. In the beginning when they set off on that journey, they only feel the thrill of the ride, but as they encounter the obstacles on their way these doubts arise from places unspoken and make them doubt their own prowess.           Maybe it’s just the universe testing your strength to stay or run off course or some other cosmic phenomena trying to burst your bubble or just another result of some incalculable coincidences that play out to give you a way out, an easier destination, a c...

"A TODOS MIS AMIGOS"               Friendships, I’m not going to say they are worth more than all the money in this world because I haven’t had the chance to compare them to anything I own which can be narrowed down to my school achievements, maybe as it wasn’t directly bought or influenced by my folks. The single most relationship which we have to obtain on our own with no intention of getting something in return is as you know – FRIENDSHIP. I believe that it might be the purest form of a bond even when compared to a romantic bond because everybody gains something from a romantic relationship, be it experience or financial stability or support or even weight.             For those of you who are starting to argue about a “Friendship with ‘Benefits’ ”, it’s just a deal made for mutual gain or whatever people are calling it nowadays, which I believe is not the true form of...

THE POINT AND LINE OF EVERYTHING               After pondering over this question for longer than I can remember, it has occurred to me that it could never occur to a person who was built to survive here. We are limited by our very foundations which decide whether we are fit to survive in this society. It has been made very clear to us that we can live here comfortably if and only if we follow the life-map “gifted” to us by our society. It doesn’t matter which country or which continent we live in, it’s always the same thing.             All of it begins with our parents filling our bags with “who knows why studied them” books and weighing our shoulders with them. Then suddenly one day we are supposed to make a decision on what to do for the next 6-7 years of our academic life and for the rest of our boring life. I think it is a very wise decision to just drop it on the kid that they are to make a choice (maybe the biggest...

YIN & YANG   This existence of ours has been defined in the form of pairs. Each and every living thing has been paired with something. A man is paired to a woman, happiness with grief, excitement with hope, despair with relief and most importantly love with pain. Some might say that not all men are paired to a woman, very true; but it is also true that not all of us have the courage to confront our emotions and not all of us dare to confess them. Let’s talk about love. Yeah, one of the most boring subjects known to the commonwealth. I’m going to delve deeper than talking about motherly or friendly love. Pain has always been one of the side dishes of love. One cannot love a person without experiencing the slightest amount of pain, may it be rejection, arguments or a falling out. I believe that relationships whichever they might be are well maintained when both the parties have experienced the right amount of pain because we learn from pain; we grow because of pain, not in ...

  Discipline and Formulae ‘Not all great men were disciplined and not all disciplined men were great’ We have all been taught through the years that Discipline is a must for any person who would want to succeed in life. The issue with discipline is that it when it was being formatted (in simple terms); an individual point of view wasn’t taken into account because the people who framed these approached it in way to make it look like a formula. But life isn’t perfect like science. It is not a straight line graph which we can predict by using an equation; we have our ups and downs. We move forward when we are motivated, we get stuck or fall into the deepest pit when we feel low or depressed. We fall in love, we face tragedies, we lose battles, we get discouraged, we get afraid and try to run away from problems but at the end of the day we fall in bed hoping to fight another day. All this wasn’t taken into account when our ancestors “framed” the concept of discipline. I believe the...