Reaching There

It was in the September of 2009 that I got stuck with an idea. I decided to create a blog. At that time, it felt that this venture would soon fade away too. However, looking back now, I see that I have stayed faithful to this idea. I wrote sixteen posts in the next four months of the year 2009. Since then I have published close to hundred posts on my blog with another forty a work in progress. A few days back while writing a post I began to wonder why I write. A rather stupid notion at the start but it soon began to evolve into a painful migraine in my head. I had to find an answer that could satisfy my thirst of sanity for my mind. Thus began my journey through the reasons people write. The best place to start is to see if people who write have gone through a similar phase as well. Writing an Act of Optimism I found the answer rather easily! I was browsing through the headlines of The Economists on my Flipboard. An article that was published on June 26th 2012 caught my ...

Susan Cain's Quiet Ever heard a voice coming inside of you? It makes you wonder who is this person speaking to me and sounds just like me. Some movie-makers have tried to visualize this voice as that of our consciousness (remember the scene from the movie Guide where Dev Anand's character battles between the two sides of his voice ). So Easy to Drown the Voice It is easy to drown this voice in the constant bombardment of “entertainment” available at the click of the button. I have these urges to write down a piece of prose or a poem. I open my blog to begin a post and few seconds later I am on Youtube.com going through some random videos! I can kid myself that it is part of the research, but my voice knows it all. And it goes into a hiding. A World that Ignores the Introverts I am reading Susan Cain’s Quiet these days. Some of the things surprised me and others created a feeling of discomfort. For example, a young man trying to give a few good ideas; but t...

Act I Life is full of coincidences. The other day while I was almost about to doze off during my layover at Dubai airport I met a friend of mine. Okay..a coincidence...good for me. The back-story is that I knew he was travelling and we discussed we'll meet up when we're back in India . However never for a moment it crossed our minds that we can plan to meet in Dubai! So a silly little coincidence.  Moral of the story is - good things can happen unplanned too. Act II I was pondering over the thought of changing jobs soon. With every change I get a box full of doubts as a gift from my mind! Ain't that a shame? Naah, that's the nature of an introvert (ref: Susan Cain's Quiet ). I was pondering over the "mysteries of universe" and "ephemeralness of life" and "Black Holes" and many more topics which would have been useful if I were a scientist or a psychologist.  All this "bullshit" was shot down when I r...