Frail is my soul,
Liken to a glass,
Shattered to pieces,
I stay in dark,
Away from the perfect,
Fearing the judgement.
Little did I know,
Off I step in light,
And bright will I shine,
Prismic rainbow,
Vibrant shattered pieces,
Kept in dark, thought of sin,
Is the showpiece, I am.
I wanderI wonder Where I belongWere I belong
In peace is my mind, In appreciating art
Akin to phoenix, Aflame to ashes, Ascending to azure.
As a child, I used to gaze at the skies,
The void of the past, lingering around,
We strolled through the blue-tinted chilly night well-lit by the moon. The cold asphalt-topped jagged stones massaged my feet. He never judged me for choosing to walk barefoot.
As usual, the train was late. Me and my father choose to take a walk across the railway station. We were taking a journey to Kerala from Mumbai. As we walked aimlessly, my father asked me if I needed any books to read while on the train.
For someone, who did schooling in six different schools, you would think would have many friends. Well, not in my case. I can easily count my school friends on the fingers of one hand.
I was 10 when I saw a computer for the first time. And now, am a Software Engineer. Well, that story isn't that interesting. And I was no prodigy.
"What gets measured gets managed”. This famous quote is often attributed to Peter F Drucker. It not only applies to business but also to our personal life.
The author Ryan Holiday has titled his new book Discipline is Destiny. Our destiny is decided by what we do every day.
We all used to love our sleep. There was a point in time when sleep was the most precious. But as time passed, did our relationship with sleep lose its romance?
We have come a long way from lack of information to lakhs of information. Each day we are consuming around 74 GB of information. Now to put that into context, 500 years ago that was the amount of information a person would have consumed in their entire lifetime. [1]
As said by Ralph Waldo Emerson, man is what he thinks all day long. And to be a better version of yourself you need to broaden your thinking. The path to wisdom begins with you knowing what you don't know—and having an open mind to entertain a thought without jumping to conclusions.
It is interesting how death is the only certainty in life, and we seldom think about it. But why, why spend your life thinking about death? Isn't it a waste of your precious life to spend it thinking about your mortality?
Ryan Holiday the author uses the notecard system to store and curate his notes. Eventually, the index cards in his commonplace book get turned into published bestsellers. That creative magic happens through him going through the index cards, finding patterns between wisdom, and connecting them.
A few months back I bought an Amazon Kindle, and it changed my life.
Morning Pages is a method of writing introduced by author Julia Cameron in her book The Artist’s Way.
How often do you get bored these days? Or do you even get bored? We are all immersed in this lifestyle filled with constant streams of activities. All around us productivity gurus are selling us this dream of ticking off more and more tasks. App stores are flooded with to-do apps and time trackers. Hustle culture is instilling FOMO in us.
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