Tag: Happiness
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Self-love: Path to an empathetic society
The other day I was talking to my friend. It was not the usual day! While in my best effort to give her some sympathy and console, I was witnessing all the emotional suffering she was dealing with. My friend lost her father! She was here, thousands of miles away from her hometown, when she…
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Are we there yet!

“Are we there yet?” This question is familiar to most of today’s generation’s parents. The longer we travel, the more we hear these sorts of questions, especially when our kids are not preoccupied with smart gadgets or other activities. After we book our flight for any trip, usually the first thing they ask is, “Will…
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Accepting the change: Holding on to moving on
I can’t believe one day I will be writing on this topic. My childhood friends would know why I am saying this. Yes! A lot had “changed”; it was inevitable like “The change”. Summer of 1997, after my grandma’s demise, my parents told me that they would want my school closer to home. Thus, decided…
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Solitude: a friendly connection with ourselves
Reminiscing my childhood, we used to have a lesson in civics where we study about civilization. All of our necks were swayed from one corner of a room to the other, in an effort of making sense of this famous phrase – “Man is a social animal”. Some of us laughed silently and cracked jokes…
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Self-worth: know yourself, value yourself!
At the beginning of every school year, children make their self-portraits here. When my older one drew his self-portrait successively in the second year of his school life, I questioned myself, what was the intention of drawing a self-portrait every single year? Then I looked at those self-portraits carefully, and it all started making sense…
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Valentine’s Day- Celebration of myriad forms of love
14th of February, Valentine’s Day: The celebration of love, adoration, devotion, affection, care, friendship, respect, and commitment. In my childhood time, the day was observed to celebrate the romantic form of love. Couples used to be busy getting greeting cards, flowers, chocolates, and gifts for each other, sharing their feelings on cupid day. Over the…
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Focus: a way to overcome distractions
Distraction: the companion whom we try hard to get rid of while doing our intended task. Its chasing powers are intense. Let me put it this way, “Traction of distractions is sometimes irrefutable potent, that we just flow with it and lose are intended traction.” We use these phrases immeasurable times while trying to finish…
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Priorities or Priority
“I think these are the most important priorities for me to handle today”. ” I just need a little more time to get my priorities in line”. Commonly we use these phrases every day. Priority-for some of us, it is associated with a single commitment/task for the given time. Yet for a couple of us,…
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Detachment
The word is very simple yet powerful and often confusing to most of us. To be very honest it is mostly taken negatively. Until a couple of years back, I used to think detachment means keeping yourself away from materialistic noise. I used to think that it is an “I don’t care” feeling. The feeling…
