Feel your feelings fully, truly, completely. Stay with them, acknowledge them, absorb them, let them take their own time to pass. Don’t feel compelled to react. Just be. Emotions have a life of their own. They need to be acknowledged, respected, nurtured and channeled. If you dismiss them, suppress them or shove them in the …
Many people don’t read certain books simply because they’re classified as ‘Self Help’ somewhere. There’s a taboo associated with this genre. As if by reading a book classified as such, means there is something wrong with you and you’re crying for help. What a shame for so many of these jewels to remain unread by people …
Choose whichever path you may, you’d be missing out on a hundred others. Regretting not taking a different path is quite useless because that’s essentially saying – all else being equal, if I’d just made this one choice differently, then my life would’ve been brilliantly different. Well.. All else wasn’t ever going to be the …
We often give people our pieces of wisdom, thinking that we’ve already gone through the pain of coming to a conclusion and we want to save others the painful and time consuming process. But sometimes it’s like giving someone a whole bunch of weight to lift when they haven’t built the muscle for it. It’s not helpful. …
More often than not, what we think of others says more about us than about them. Some opinions shaped by our mental framework – purely based on how much effort we have put into enriching it. Other opinions shaped by what fits our own narrative i.e. what is the story we want to tell ourselves …
In no particular order.. That your work will almost always feel unfinished and that’s okay To not obsess over perfection and delay putting your work out there That every new creation is somehow stealing from (aka inspired by) someone else’s work That making a living out of creative work is challenging To have an open …
I am the Pondering Pupil. Like most people, I stared at my blank blog page for a long time thinking what my first blog post is going to be about. I finally decided that the age old Hello World! is indeed the perfect starting point. It is after all meant to be a consistent way to indicate …