Where is Home?
I have always been able to get comfortable in new surroundings quickly.When I went for the गृह प्रवेश of one of my father’s friends, I (an 8-year old) ended up staying there for a whole night. I had no qualms about going to different places if I got instant gratification.As a child, I was pretty sure that my home was where my family lived, where I grew up sneaking around, and where I received love, food, security, and other kind of things. Here is home.But as I grew older, m…
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Pouring Your Heart Out!
If you poured your heart out, would they listen to you. If they listened, would they care enough to do something about it?When you are pouring your heart out, it’s not elegant. It is raw and messy and feels somewhat gooey as well.It no longer feels like a cathartic experience. Now it feels like a door opened and everything you held dear in your heart bled away in the abyss of nothingness.You are scared that you would get hurt. Is this relationship doomed?Why is your problemo…
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Repeat After Me: Love Is Patient! Love Is Kind!
…love bears all things, believes all things, endures all things!—First Corinthians 13:7 Some people (who are in love) often express their need for their partner. However, some others folks in love refuse to believe that someone else could be essential for them in order to exist. I have been a bit of both and I still keep jumping from one side to the other.I know that it is possible to survive without someone you love. But is mere survival enough? Well, you don’t always get a …
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How to Live Alone Happily: Part 2
Challenges of Living AloneYou will inevitably have to face several challenges when you venture out into the “Real World” which is why it is better you prepare in advance to conquer them. In this blog post, you will be presented with information collected after more than 3 years of living on your own.If you think of these challenges as tests/exams in your school (in a more practical sense) you may be able to glide through them with ease. All of the following mentioned obstacl…
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How to Live Alone Happily: Part 1
The Planning StageAre you planning to live alone? Whether you are moving to a new city or somewhere familiar, establishing a new life away from your childhood home is quite difficult. Whatever the reason may be for your move, you should prepare yourself for the upcoming challenges.Having moved out in 2016, I have a few insights that will definitely help you learn how to live alone happily and make your experience much smoother.Have you traveled alone before?Don’t worry, you …
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Modern Loneliness
Today, we have the technology and with it—the luxury to reach out to our loved ones with just a click.The irony is even with the ease of reaching out, it is actually so difficult to have a conversation and connect with people. I find the confines of this modern structure for socializing truly bizarre—I can see and know what you’ve been up to and what is going on in your life (well mostly, whichever part of yourself you choose to share) but I cannot seem to find a way to conn…
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A guide: How to find good people and keep them
Having found some gems in my life I think I may be able to shed some light on the matter. I have amazing friends who I dearly love and they love me back.We are creatures of love, we need to be surrounded by people we love and desire and vice versa, otherwise we may end up demotivated and depressed.Table of Contents Why does every other person keeps on complaining about not having good friendsBeing blessed with amazing friends, I found it strange when I met new people most …
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How I wish I were not a woman
It took me about 22 years to accept the fact that I am a woman and that need not change for me to have a better quality of life.For so long I wished with every fiber in my being to not be a woman in this place/time.Table of Contents A Little BackgroundI was born in Agra, Uttar Pradesh in 1998 to a middle class household where my father worked hard to give us a better future and my mother supported him by giving everything she had to offer.Seeing her from the very beginning, I…
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