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Wrote this in 2012On this canvas of life, everyone I've met has added their color.Some with delicate strokes of love and friendship,While some just have colored with thrown ink.Some, giving their trust have drenched it complete,with the scarlet of their hearts, and blue of their loss,While some, their own, soothing verdant.Color it or deface it, the canvas still stands unbought,It waits for your b...
Last Sunday my friends and I, lets call it our gang since we are almost always together, got into a wedding. Nobody invited us (obviously). But thanks to our art and skill of making things happen, nobody stopped us either. We ate whatever we could reach and then a little more. Two of my friends fought over a chicken leg so long that a third one quietly walked away with it. That is how it works in ...
It was 2015, just after we had passed out of our MBA college, when we three friends decided we needed a different kind of break. No fancy resort, no new city to “check off” a list—just us, our backpacks, and the mountains. That’s how Har Ki Dun happened.We didn’t know then that this trek would stay with us long after our sore muscles had healed.Stepping Out of ComfortOur biggest concern before the...
First off, I’m deeply grateful to my parents and good fortune for being born healthy, there is zero credit to me for that. I see it as my duty to remind myself—and the people I care about—to stay fit and happy. I say “I take zero credit for being born healthy, but I’m 100% responsible if I die unfit”I’m not a certified trainer or dietitian yet, but after 30 years of lifting dumbbells, jumping rope...
Have you ever been sitting at a red light or standing in a crowded line, and you'll just stop and actually look at the people around you? It's a weird feeling when it suddenly hits you. Every single person you see is living a life just as loud, messy, and complicated as yours.The person in the car next to you is listening to a song that reminds them of someone they don't talk to anymore. The cashi...
Those who know me are aware of my unhealthy obsession with anything Latin-American. I actively seek books, content, and movies emerging from that region. In fact, I started learning Spanish because I read an extremely passionate poem by Pablo Neruda in college and was, well, obsessed. Needless to say, my brain immediately associates passion with Spanish, and it isn’t without reason. After all, the...
Have you ever wondered why so many of our natural tendencies feel... wrong for us?We crave more sugar than we need.We binge-watch shows instead of moving our bodies.We scroll endlessly but struggle to sit and read a book.At first glance, it seems like human instincts are broken. Other animals follow their instincts, live in sync with nature, and evolve. We, on the other hand, seem to be working ag...
15th September 2018, a day before my birthday, my family hadn’t started celebrating Ganeshotsav yet in USA. My parents continue to manage from India after almost half a decade,I left my motherland. May be that guilt that day was overwhelming me and I had a moment I felt I stated the inevitable, having track record of miracles happening around me with the divine presence of Lord Ganesh. I was famou...
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