Kya aapke toothpaste mein namak hai? Kya aapke zindagi mein stress hai? So if you can choose which toothpaste to brush with, why not choose which stress you endure! Weird idea? Allow me to elaborate. What is choice? Philosophers have been tinkering with this idea for millennia. Essentially, choice is something that helps us walk …
What is procrastination? Good question, I’ll answer that later. Maybe you’re reading this because you want to know more. Maybe you’re reading this because there’s some impending work, social obligation or filial responsibility that you’re trying to postpone for a future you that is definitely not going to appreciate it. The world goes round and …
When Amitabh Bacchan said “mere paas maa hai”, it was a resounding statement with far-reaching socio-cultural implications. No amount of material possessions can overpower our need for human connection. The people that we surround ourselves with, the bonds we choose to water, uniquely add to our lives. From a friend, a partner, a sibling to …
Anger, a primal emotion that is ever-present in our daily lives in little ways, is also one of the most searched terms on google. When this piece was written, the most searched query vis-a-vis anger is “how to control anger immediately” followed by “how to control anger and anxiety”. Babies feel it, adults feel it, …
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.” It strikes the mother who just realized her kid’s childhood is over, it strikes the 10th std student who realizes their school life is at an end, it …
Who are we? Why are we here? What’s the point? These are some questions that all of humanity has to grapple with at some point in their lives. Existential anxiety is the anxiety that accompanies the thoughts associated with the big picture. If you feel discontent and sad about there being no point to life, …
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Women are weak! Men are strong! Fat people are lazy! Short men are ugly! Fair skinned women are beautiful! Don’t worry, we don’t believe any of that. They are all classic examples of a bias. Bias is an unfair tendency to believe that one thing is better or worse than another that has no basis …
Through love, all is possible. Love sustains us, it enhances us, it protects us and it pushes us to be more. What we don’t realize is that this love could be of one, for oneself. Can one of life’s greatest mysteries have such a beautifully simple answer? Why not? Self-love is another one of those …
WAKE UP, GET DRESSED, GO TO WORK/UNIVERSITY, COME BACK, SLEEP, WAKE UP… A standard modus operandi for most of us. We go through the motions so often that we forget to actually pause, take a breath, and for lack of a better metaphor, smell the roses. Now you could be allergic to roses and still …
The term exam stress sounds familiar. At some point in your life you must have used it in a conversation, maybe as an excuse or maybe because you actually felt tensed and breathless while you were sweating with confusion, standing sleepy right outside the exam room. But do you actually know what it is? If …
