Just a Thought

In today's times, you are seen as incompetent if you are socially awkward. People get suspicious if avoid talking to them. They stare as if you have some clinical problems. You are ill. Much of our mainstream world has indeed flourished around extroverted personality. If you can make conversations, If you are good at short talks, If you have people skills, good for you. Corporate culture thrives on such traits. After the industrial revolution, introversion became something that needed to be overcome. Every parent wants their kid to talk fluently in front of relatives. Carry an upfront gait. And if you don’t then parents get a negative impression of the kid. Sometimes such negative impressions have life long consequences for that kid. Mr. Robot Introverts are seen as an anomaly. As if they are the consequence of some random disadvantageous mutation. As if we have lost to the play of evolution. Often extroversion is confused with Intelligence. They seem more reliable. It ...

Human beings have put an immense amount of time and effort in replicating nature. Every discovery and invention and art is nothing but to show our self-reliance-  to prove that we don't necessarily need to rely on nature for everything. We can build things of our own, though, inspired by nature but it's our own creation, by our own mind and hands. The four wheels car, the two wings airplane, the artificially intelligent robot are few of the exemplary creations that we take pride in- that makes us think that we might have mastered over mother nature but the fact is we have not and we are not even close to it. and it can never be.  Nature is an elegant form of beauty, a supreme form of art painted by the hands of I-don't-know-who but certainly, the human beings can never possess those hands and one of the beauties of nature that we can never find an alternative of is rain. "BAARISH," that's what we call in Hindi in India. Why is rain so charming to some people...

We, humans, have this intrinsic desire to be accompanied, to have someone's hand in our hand and can walk by our side, to hug someone when we are overwhelmed with emotions. Someone whom we can look up to when things are upside down. When we are haunted by ghoulish darkness we expect someone to come by with a candle and light our way. Humans are dark-averse beings. We get terrified when the languished in the dark. We get scared when we are stranded alone in a solitary way. We feel we are being strangled if we are asked to walk alone. To us, darkness signifies absence. It reflects the emptiness. It emanates the loneliness and you know lonely is the least we all want to be. But I don't think being alone is that bad or is scary the way it has been perceived by most of the people. Loneliness is not the absence of people but the presence of your very self which has basically been drowned out by this mass consuming, self-centered society which thrives on pulling each other's leg...

So as they say that life comprises of two things - happiness and sadness. With the absence of one, it won't be called life. A person without setbacks and sorrows doesn't get to understand what life is as much as the person without success and excitement. These are the two pivotal pillars of the bridge that we walk-on that keeps us balanced and stable. God forbid if any of these pillars fall the bridge collapses and the very idea of life shatters and we are buried deep down under the debris of this scattered life. So the question arises - is it really necessary for us to have these two contradicting emotions to lead a fulfilled life. Won't it be a life if one gets to feel just one of it most presumably happiness? Why do we need to cry if smiling takes less of muscle movement or why do we need to make our heart heavy if it beats faster when light. And I think this contrast in our life comes from this peculiar fetish nature has of keeping everything in equilibrium  - in other ...

November 20, 2015, old blog post from the previous blog Steve Jobs is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our generation. He is the one who initiated personal computer revolution. He did things that other considered impossible. He started Apple from his parents garage and with his intuition, vision and hard work made it the world’s most valuable company. Steve Jobs’s life was like a roller-coaster. He had a lot of ups and downs. Being adopted at birth, to discarding formal education, to be fired from his company shows how hard it was. Despite all these, he did what he wanted because he once dipped himself in the spiritual world. Let’s know why Steve Jobs chose spirituality when he was young. The Truth of being Adopted Steve Jobs knew from his early age that he was adopted. The fact that he was adopted was like a hole in his life, and he wanted to fill that up. Being adopted gave him a sense of rejection at birth, and it hurt him. He wanted to meet his biological parents, not b...

Introversion and extroversion are two different dimensions of human personality. The presence of one doesn’t mean the absence of other. Every one of us has the both of these but varies in dominance. Both of these have their advantage but when it comes to the general concept, Introverts are considered anti-social and dumb because of the lack of outgoing nature. But this is not what it is. Introverts are awesome, and their quiet nature has its benefit in shaping our society and its well being in general. Introverts are lost in their wonderland Introverts are quiet, calm and alone, but this nowhere means they are dumb. They are quiet because they talk to themselves, They are calm because they are peace lovers, and they are alone because they just can’t find a better companion than themselves. They get lost when they are in the crowd. They can only find their true selves by being alone. They are self-centered, and this is what everyone should be. To make this get into you...

March 15, 2015 - Old post from the previous blog Nature is the ultimate beauty. No human instinct can ever replace it. In fact, we can’t even go close. Every inch of nature is so precise and inspiring. Its never-ending beauty is a joy forever. It is the greatest source of inspiration. One of nature’s unparalleled beauty is Rain. Lots of people are emotionally connected to rain. It makes them feel good when they see sky dressing up for rain. A wave of joy runs throughout their body when they hear the sound of a thunderstorm. So let’s know the reasons why rain makes everything better. It calms our Mind There are a lot of thoughts come to our mind every second. We are constantly bombarded with it. Most of the thoughts are negative, and we easily get dishearted. Our mind is the only reason for the chaos in our life. Rain comes with a cure for all our chaos. It waters and flushes out every worry thought to make us free. It calms our mind. It’s natural way relaxation. It takes us to ou...

There can be nothing as pleasing as reading Rumi’s words in a hushed-up ambiance of self-exploration. It’s a solace for wobbly souls. It's like a relic of love to delve us back again to the astonishing and miraculous nature that created us. He transcends us to the dark and undrawn space, a space where silence sounds and darkness lights. He tinders our soul to lighten and uncover it’s utmost desires. To me, Rumi is that ray of hope which infatuates me to cross the entire ocean of life with just a shred. Rumi lets me know who I am I am always besieged with the thoughts of my creation, who am I? Why am I here? Where have I come from? , till I don’t tune to Rumi’s mystical poems. He makes me understand that I am a divine covered with muscles and skin and beneath that skin, a soul resides who has every answer I am searching for. Everything I am seeking is seeking me . I am the sole owner of this universe. And the most precious of all from the Rumi’s closet is that this world is nothi...

Death is a simple five alphabets word that will engulf every beautiful creation of the universe with time. Every second, some of its beauty gets lost in this unknown void forever. We don’t know what is on the other side. It is never explored, and it will never be. Despite all theses, death puts a tremendous impact on our lives. We are somehow or other controlled by it. It is likely to be the single best invention of life. We don’t want to die, but it is our death which makes our life a worth. It makes us Courageous None of us can be sure of our courage until the day of our death. The force and will to survive makes us do everything. It’s a kind of force which brings out the unseen power of us. It makes us go beyond in every odds. It can make us face a lion or a ghost. It can make us jump off the Burj Khalifa. The only reason for such insane courage is fear of death. Someday not too long from now, you will die. And that is going to be the toughest experience of yours. As death ...

In France work is really not valued much the way it is for the most part of the world. There, people never say what do you do, they say where did you go on your last vacation. Isn't it sweet but that's not the only sweet thing they have. There are thousands of other sweet things out there and out of those, there's one that looks the cutest Amelie. And it's not just her great moon face with her Bambi eyes or rosebud mouth with pink hamster cheeks, a gorgeous brunette hair that makes her cute. I mean they do but in the least. What actually makes her cute is her kiddish behavior yet never fails to surpass much of people's maturity. What makes her cute is her smile that stretches over her face only when there is someone else to smile with. In a time when the street word is "mind your own business" very seldom do we get to meet people whose happiness is in the happiness of other people. We have always felt that a state of happiness is induced when we receive ...

Fears and phobias are the words that we are very much familiar with. These are the words that are so deeply ingrained in our psyches that we seem to carry it all over. These are the words so deeply embedded in our mind that it seems every single decision that we make in our life is somehow affected by the fear that we hold in our mind. And the thing that scares us also interferes with the liberty of our decision-making will. Fear is nothing but darkness. Fear is lack of knowledge. Fear is miscalculations of things and coming to the wrong conclusion. You know you are gonna jump off that plane and you have a parachute attached to your back and you will make it out alive but you won't jump because you feel that you won't be able to make it out alive. You fear that you might die. Fear is having a superstitious view of the world. Fear is a kind of blind faith. And this sometimes constricts us from going ahead in our life. It becomes a kind barrier or obstacle that block us from see...