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Dogs

Dog Today I woke up and decided to write some thing on dogs. How beautiful of creatures they are and how they are a good friends to humans. But then I realized I never adopted a dog, all I know of dogs is from books, videos and friends who had a dog. All that I know is from an external source, I never caressed a dog, never played with one. Then I started thinking, what it takes to write something about a dog. Maybe, you need to feed one. Maybe, you play with them. Or may be, you need to be chased by one. I’ve been chased by three dogs and five times. I hope that qualifies me to write about a dog, may be. If I write something, then it will be experiences and information from someone. I will never own it, there is no personal bond for me with dogs. I don’t know anything about them. I can’t write about dogs. Then I thought, if I’m not good enough to write about dogs without having that personal bond, what makes me qualified to write about someone, judge someone. I remember meeting an old...
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Overthinking

Overthinking is the most dangerous drug of all. It is addictive. What makes it so perilous is it stays in our head and eats us inside out and most of us even think that is absolutely normal. Overthinking a person, a situation or even an imaginary scenario is good enough to haunt us for a lifetime. Unlike other drugs it stays inside our brains, entices us with momentary affirmations and pleasures but we end    up being it’s slave. It is the root cause for half of our problems like anxiety and sleeplessness.  I understand, sometimes overthinking is a form of our defense mechanism. But we need to keep a watch on our thoughts. Dwelling upon the things we have no control gives us absolutely nothing, but it is not as simple to understand it as it is to read. No matter how much we tell ourselves, we end up overthinking things. We all did it at some point of our lives and most of us do this everyday. I did the same. I used to think of a lot scenarios and overthink lot of things, ...
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2020. We all hate the year. All of us suffered. Most of us lost a lot. Strange things happened, and we ended up doing weird things. Most of it all, we all grew. We evolved.  Suddenly, life has become difficult. Everything we took for granted has become so eluding in no time. We no more can enjoy simplest of joys like going to a movie or to shop in a mall. Visiting a grocery store has become our little adventure. We got agitated, frustrated and few of us depressed. We understood how brittle our lives are and how less time we owe on this planet. We found happiness in little things. And man, those little things we never paid attention to, really made the difference for us this year. Little things like eating with your parents, reading an old book that you bought years ago and never read, going through your photo albums and realizing how beautiful your mom was on her wedding day, binge watching a web series with your sibling. This time you got to spend with your family was very refresh...
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The true story of fire and ice

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The true story of fire and ice It was April 2005.  I was in my 7th standard. I was riding my bicycle fast, to go to a near by medical shop. No, not to buy anything but to check on the score, as we had a power cut. Sehwag got out. He should have been little careful, missed his century. Idiot. I was cursing him in my head. I just hope the rest of the team manages to make a respectable score now.  It’s time for me to go to ground and play cricket. We played for sometime and came back to check on the score once again. There he was on the little television set at the corner in the medical shop. He had a long hair and boggling with joy. ‘That’s his first century, he is the new wicketkeeper in Karthik’s place’ said one my friend. He was stout tall and with wide shoulders. He looked so different from a regular international player. He looked callous in attitude.  ‘What’s his name’, I asked, he replied ‘Dhoni’.  That was the first time I saw you. You were full of energy, but ...
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EDUCATION

EDUCATION. What is the first thing you would think of when you hear the word education? For me it is exams, home works and results. I never enjoyed my education. Only bright side is I’ve got some of the best people as friends, for life. One day I questioned myself, what is wrong with me that I never enjoyed my education, while others had a great time. May be I was so scared of the exams, may be I’m distressed about the results. My parents never pressurized when I got low grades but still I was always restless about my results. I worried my friends might leave, I was constantly under pressure that everyone would laugh at my grades.  18 years of education and I realized I’m in the wrong profession. I mean this is not what I love to do. But it’s too late. I’m a keeper and my heart says I should have been an archeologist. Whose fault is that I end up in the wrong profession? The education system? Or is it me? I recently found my kindergarten progress report and understo...
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Misfits

Misfits He is not right for you. That’s not how you do it. You are wrong. You can’t marry her. So you frequently learn what is right and what is wrong. Sometimes you correct your self out of compulsion. It’s the best way that you make yourself fit in this PERFECT world.  But the question is, is to fit in to this world your purpose? Is that what your up bringing is all about? A fish can swim as soon as it is born. But we need a lot of nurturing and protection at the earlier stages of our lives. These are the stages where we are moulded. I think that what makes us to be the smartest species on this planet. We question things, we learn things. But then comes the rules.  My understanding, this world is afraid of our questions. It is afraid that we might question its ways. So they made rules and if we don’t abide by them we are called misfits. You are supposed to get a career by 24. You are supposed to marry by 30. Supposed to have a child by 33. Suppose...
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In 1903, two crazy guys had invented the and flew the world’s first powered and controlled airplane. They risked their lives and gifted the world aviation, they gifted mankind wings to fly. 4500 BC,  in a dark cave, a man had invented wheel. And the world was never the same. In late 1930s, a man left his fortunes and family to pursue a dream, knowing he would never be able to return home. A dream to free a nation. They had one life. Just like you and me. A lot of courageous people in past have made the greatest of the discoveries and genius of the innovations possible by risking their lives. Some even died fighting the religion, which hunted them for inventing some of the important gifts to mankind.  If only we could hold our future and treat it as preciously as they did. World has become smaller, when a man invented the wheel.  World has become brighter, when a man invented the bulb.  World has become selfish, when a man invented cu...
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