Month: January 2021

There is a thin layer of difference between knowing a lesson and learning a lesson. What made me write this today is that I happened to bump into a quote that is simple but very thought-provoking – “Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned.” This is simple but very important. There are…

Sometimes, maybe because of travel, or because of slight deflections in the routine, or my experiments with food, or even for some unknown reason, my body responds to unfavorable situations with an unbearable headache. For many years I experienced this, and I never found a solution, I tried medicines and alternative habits but they didn’t…

Like many of you, the Matrix trilogy movies are one of my all time favorite movies. Over the past two decades, I have watched the trilogy many times, and every time I watch I find new meaning and dimension in them and that’s the truth. The movies are about an imaginary future in which machines…

Today is beautiful, it’s a full moon day. I can see the full moon through the windows in my room. I can see the highway, the vehicles on the road, the garden around the hotel, people, some birds, flowers, a lot of other things, and the bright beautiful moon in the sky. I feel like…

Just before the lockdown, I was flying from Mumbai to Bangalore, I saw the cabin crew serve meals to passengers. The meal was included in my ticket, so I was waiting for my turn. I overheard the cabin crew say the options were vegetable pulao and roti and chicken curry. In my mind, I decided…

I have a friend of mine who is an amazing bike rider, he travels hundreds of kilometers on bikes and, especially when we were in college, I have accompanied him many times. It was quite frightening to sit on his bike because he is such an adventurous, fast and furious rider. Fortunately, he didn’t meet…

One of the constantly evolving challenges we have as humans is decision making. Every day we make many decisions, sometimes tens and hundreds of decisions, small and large. If we really want to make crucial decisions, but are not aware of how to proceed logically, what to pick, there’s a solution in one of the…

In our school it was mandatory that we finish our lunch without wasting it, we were asked to be seated during the break until we finished lunch. Me and some of my friends don’t normally eat much food, we consume less. So this rule was a troublesome one for us. But there was another girl…

If you pay enough attention to history you can see that in all times there were some legends, thought leaders, who massively influenced people. On the other hand, there were also parallel ideologies and perceptions that ran a parallel track opposing the main celebrated leader. Though they attracted the masses they made some points that…

Recently I happened to read a news report, it’s a story that happened in a town in Northern Kerala called Kanhangad. There was a person called Sudhakaran who ran a little shop selling sweets, juice, cold drinks and lottery tickets. One day, one of his regular customers Ashokan called him and asked him to set…