Today is the 357th day in our journey of the gratitude series. And today I felt like I should thank the app in which I scribble the content. It’s the Notes app available in Apple iOS. I’m sure if this app had a living soul then it would be happy that I’m thanking it for…
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day356 – Exploration
I just stumbled upon beautiful verses on exploration and this was it: “There is no failure or victory in exploration. Only knowledge and growth!” I was floating around on this thought the whole day! I arrived at the conclusion that it’s yet another beautiful way to define life! Life itself is the greatest exploration opportunity…
day355 – Cause and effect
I was listening to a thought leader, and he simplifies a fact about our feelings. He was analysing the happiness and sorrow we experience. He arrived at the point that both happen within ourselves inside our mind… We may let an external thing trigger our feelings but ultimately those external things don’t do anything. As…
day354 – Goddess
Onam is the most widely celebrated festival in the Indian state of Kerala. People make flower carpets at homes and offices and institutions to welcome prosperity and the mythical King Mahabali. On the Onam celebration day at school, students had to bring flowers to class to make the flower carpet. We enjoyed the process and…
day353 – Feeling small
I just happened to notice a groundbreaking study on human tactile perception (the sense of touch) by a team of Swedish scientists. They show that people can detect things at nano-scale while running their fingers upon a seemingly smooth surface up to 13 nanometers! For a better understanding, if our fingers are of the scale…
day352 – Numbers don’t lie
I was casually telling my friend about a book I was planning to buy for my next read. The book was “Numbers Don’t Lie” by the Canadian economic analyst and author Vaclav Smil. After 3 days, surprisingly, my friend bought that book for me 🙂 This book is indeed a really good read. It reflects…
day351 – Saṃsāra
Saṃsāra is a Sanskrit word that depicts the cyclicality of eternal time! It is also interpreted as the cyclicality of life and life events, as well. If we keenly observe the world and events, even our very life from the micro to macro level, we can see an unexplainable repetition of events at constant intervals…
day350 – Inspiration
The other day I was having an interaction with a group of college students on entrepreneurship. It was more of a Q&A mode and a student asked me a question and it was this: “How do you find your inspiration? How do you keep yourself motivated?!” Actually, it was the first time ever I also…
day349 – The democratic polity
People of Afghanistan are trying to escape from their own motherland, clinging on to aeroplanes, horribly falling from 20000 feet and dying. Today the whole world has been witnessing such heartbreaking visuals from Kabul after the Taliban invasion. These visuals remind me that I’m living in a heaven on earth, my motherland. There is nothing…
day348 – How safe is flying?
Since the first time I flew in an aircraft, on every take off and landing – every bit of turbulence I experience it in the air, I am always a little tense and afraid, if something bad happens to the aircraft, what will I do. I always pray for safe journeys. Today, I was reading…