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A Love Letter to Nobody
It did not start when you told me that you loved me. How could it? We were so young, so naive. We were in the beta versions of our lives. It did not count. You refused to stop expressing your love. You were relentless. Maybe it was an obsession for you. Infatuation, is what they…
“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.”
– Flannery O’Connor
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What does it mean to be “Your True Self”?
All of us have either uttered, received or heard of this ground-breaking advice, at some point in our lives – “Just be your true self”. As a person, who has severe issues with summarising my entire life in a minute’s introduction of self, I have loathed these words immensely. What the hell does it mean…
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My Adult Gap Year – Necessity or Mistake?
In June 2020, I quit my high-income, corporate, law firm job. I wanted to pursue psychology (since junior college) and shift gears from corporate law. I never had the time to explore this path completely whilst working (not for lack of trying). So I quit first, then did my research, spoke to counsellors & experts…
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How to judge a book by its cover.
My brain did this weird thing again. Recently, I finished binging – The Big Bang Theory (I know, too late in the day) and started looking up stuff about Jim Parsons’ life to see how different he is from the role he imbibes as Sheldon Cooper. I questioned my urge to know this. But more…
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A Bad Day: How To Kill It.
Below is an excerpt from my ramblings that I tried to pen down in my journal, on a severely bad day that I endured last year. At the time, it felt like I wrote complete nonsense. But I recently read this again and it almost made a little sense. Even made me feel better for…
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Breaking News
“Government is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.” – Frank Zappa Everything is filtered to us through the lens of news and entertainment. Many believe that news and entertainment are now basically the same thing. We have been fine-tuned to pay less attention to detail mainly because we have multiple free sources to…
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How do we make sense of the world in 2020?
“When do you think this will end man?” You know how some events and concepts feel like a ‘universal truth‘? For example, we now arguably have a new universal truth i.e. “2020 sucks”. But at the risk of sounding dramatic, I wonder: Have we built an impending sense of doom as part of the new…
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Conforming to Connect
Have you ever shared a post/story on social media based on the content of that post/story alone? Have you ever recommended a podcast based on a single episode? Have you ever felt like you need to pick a side, based on the limited information you have on the subject because your group of friends/peers are…
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Men – Don’t hate, meditate.
Recently, I have taken to meditation like people take to chocolate. I love everything about it, I love how it makes me feel awake and aware, I love the expansion in my perspective, I love staring at my thoughts from a third person’s view. It is liberating. It trains your mind to be vulnerable and…
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Ground Control to Major Tom
A couple of days ago, I was fully engaged and absorbed by my work at home. My mom (a complete extrovert, in my humble opinion) rather rudely interrupted and asked, “Why even bother to work so much when the world might be ending?”. I, a professional appreciator of dark hopeless thoughts, fully agreed with her…
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Moushmi Mehta 