Elections are near. Don't break long-standing equations and relations with your dear ones due to ideological differences.
Remember, religion is personal, and politics is temporary, like the weather!
And as i see it, "parties" will be irrelevant 10 years on. People will vote directly for "independent" candidates who actually connect with, and work for the people...
Remember #2, you don't need an expensive campaign when people already know you and your work... 😊
I may be here to mess up with your mind.
But hey, you can choose to not take me seriously!
3 glasses of red wine, and suddenly you find so much clarity in life.
Antioxidants doing their job well...
Money does not change people. It just makes us more of who we already are...
Doing something feels so much better with someone who shares your enthusiasm.
With the loss of my parents, especially dad, a huge void was left on this front
Proving people wrong is not worth the time.
Better to work with people who are already on board with what is the right thing to do
Saves unnecessary friction in the Interaction
I don't test people because i already believe them to be good. I see infinite potential in every human
But the problem starts when people begin to test me. That goes against the idea of me feeling accepted.
Ordering food from an app is not being lazy. Its just effective delegation of tasks...
And i order only healthy stuff :)
Follow your passion is not bad advice. It's incomplete advice.
Rather, follow your passion when you become really good at it.
Passion is not what you do with a full stomach. It's something you would do despite being hungry. Something that leads you to many "can't sleep, cant eat moments"!
Passion is not something to do for money (only). Its something you keep on doing even without money.
Might sound obsessive, but if we want to rise above mediocre sh*t, one has to work obsessively.
Routine is boring and mediocre.
Circus animal. Something i hate to be.
And no helicopter parenting. No paranoia for me.
Long ago, I was judged for being judgemental towards people. Then I stopped judging people.
Now I am judged for being too accommodating and being non-judgemental 😀
Well, that is life. Just do what you feel is right and whatever works for you!
As a teacher, to get the best out of a student, it's not about pushing them to do their best
First one has to figure out what best means to them and when and how they deliver their best
It's needs patience and TRUE understanding of a person at a much higher as well as a deeper level
Someone judged me for being digitally illiterate because I have few apps installed in phone
Truth is, I use those services/platforms through the Browser. Don't need "yet another app" for taking up valuable storage space
So much for judging (:
Some thing I end up saying a lot to people in my in-person interactions.
Not sure if I recorded it in my personal blog. So I'll just say it again...
We need 3 Cs in our life.
Courage
Clarity
And Conviction
And of course when it comes to learning:
Pursue excellence and not petty competition
Have a natural love for learning!
Who I am...
Artist at heart, tinkerer by hand :)
Architect by nature... Or you could say, by design!
We are the generation which has seen real change happen on ground.
We have seen our white college buses become yellow!
A bathroom reads "Occupied" when you put the latch on.
But when I put the latch on, it must read "Contemplate"...
Wait 10 minutes till I update this little post... From a beautiful bathroom worth contemplating in!
Playing drums while reading notations is like driving while looking at GPS maps
Turning on navigation and not looking at map is like listening to the song so you can play simultaneously
Driving fast is possible only when you have driven before, know the next turn. Same goes for a complex song.
And then many a times relying solely on GPS can lead to bad roads. Likewise, notations can be incomplete. Use your own experience and judgement... Too.
#Analogy
I'm not technologically backward that i dont upgrade my phone/OS every 6 months
I'm just someone who's not very dependent on their phone to keep their life in order.
Can do without every new feature since I use the phone mostly to stay in touch n capture memories. Few basic apps and I'm done...
To media houses: if you need to put a star mark against a name to say it has been changed, well, then don't give a name!
Controversial and sensitive comments don't really need to have a name. Period.
"Vinci by the day, and Wayne by the night?"
So succinctly summed up by someone I barely met and told them who my role models are!
Leonardo da Vinci and Batman (Bruce Wayne)
Since I was 6 or 7 :)
Proof, I love layers, just like Da Vinci did...
Had avoided listening to "Dance of Death"
Circle of people, fire in the center, being led into it. Run away as fast as you can...
Well, sounds more like a marriage ceremony to me, than a pagan ritual for dead aatmas :P
To me, buying a luxury product is not about flaunting money.
It's about appreciating the craftsmanship and design. The functionality. The effort which goes into making an excellent product!
Design is more about how it works than how it looks...
Window shopping is passe. I go to expensive malls for "market survey" 😀
Anybody who's able to fool you has obviously used a more advanced version of math in their head that you couldn't grasp (:
I was good enough to be his armour. But he wanted arm candy. So it's better I keep him at an arm's length :-|
To those facing emotional, psychological abuse, it's necessary to recognize it while it happens. Minimize your suffering. Or don't suffer at all. A psychiatrist can only help you assess the situation in the hindsight and suggest remedies. But you need to know and handle it while it happens...
Yes, you have trusted me to take your secrets to the grave, and i will. But i just wish to reduce your suffering while it happens. So there's little to correct later.
Obviously, the biggest tragedy of cities like Delhi and Gurgaon is that a lot of places are "walking distance", but not walkable!
I see my life headed somewhere bordering between Michael Corleone, Batman and Marcus Aurelius.
Purely in analogous terms. Since I'm neither mafia nor king nor playboy billionaire.
But my life in qualitative terms, incidentally, purely matches theirs... Since the only school I've been to in the last few years is the University of Hard Knocks!
One of the most useless things I ever did for fun?
Already had 75 tabs open in my browser. Opened 25 more.
Then Chrome browser had a good laugh :D
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_orphans_and_foundlings
I've always been extremely attached to and fond of my parents.
Their loss and my turning an orphan puts all the more pressure and onus on me to aspire for doing something greater in life 🙏
