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Novel thoughts

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Finding thyself

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The one thing that has been constantly coming across my way is the fact that everyone is rushing all the time but getting only one of the two things – either tired or nowhere. Being a Sherlock fan-girl, I decided to enter my mind palace and use the Science of Deduction to understand this unsatisfied thirst to run. My crazy-twisted-out-of-the-box thinking has helped me conclude that one of the reasons for failures is poor sense of judgment and a rush to jump to conclusions (ironic much?). Let me put it this way, any action requires to go through 3 phases before we declare it a success or a failure. These 3 phases are: -           Debate before decision -           Decision -           Implementation The first phase is very simple (but also simple enough to overlook) but the most important one as it involves weighing all the pros and cons of making that decision. In this phase we should question our capability, the probable results of our actions, efforts required, dedication req

A Blank Canvas

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I hav e picked my pen up after a  good 5 year break. I didn’t realize that being Ms i-don’t-have-time-to-write was going to lead me nowhere. Covid-19 pandemic has led me to pursue every minute habit of mine that I had time and again in every phase of my life, some of them being the simple ones like painting and gardening and reading, others being adventurous (as adventurous you can get while at home) such as cooking (talking about a person who had entered kitchen in her life only to gobble food down!) and playing cards (I wonder why I never learned that before), woke up one day and chopped my hair owing to the lock-down madness, and of course, the gym-freak girl has finally learned to meditate (talk about extremes!!). The introvert version of me who yearns for a peaceful life has had all her wishes fulfilled. This person, who’s life’s aim was to stay locked up at home, is finally materializing at least one of her dreams. I look back at the last 60 days of staying locked up at home and