There is a peculiar transformation taking place in the way modern society speaks about intimacy. We have always had ways of talking about relationships, desire and sexual experience, but increasingly, human encounters are being translated into numbers. The number of followers, matches, partners, dates and sexual encounters can all become metrics through which people evaluate…
I h?ave spent a surprisingly large part of my life trying to make sense of why things happen the way they do. Whenever something goes wrong, my first instinct is to look for the mistake. Maybe I made the wrong decision. Or maybe I wasn’t prepared enough. Maybe I should have worked harder or been…
I have been thinking about whether enough questions have been asked lately: Consider this: a large part of our society is not really trying to do well. However, it seems they are mostly trying not to lose. There may not be enough effort to improve. Think about how many decisions in everyday life are driven…
In the modern world brimming with conveniences, we have simplified the definition of affordability. Most of us think that if we have enough money to buy something, we can afford it. Or that even if I don’t have the full money, I can comfortably pay the EMI. However, in both cases, the calculation ends more…
Every day, we walk to our destinations in mind. Earphones on. Eyes fixed on the phone. Minds already occupied with meetings, deadlines, and the endless list of things waiting for us. This daily routine is a privilege many people share. A few days ago, I happened to leave my earphones in my pocket. That small…
Most of us carry two versions of ourselves. One is our self-image i.e. the person we believe we are. Some of us believe that we are kind, rational, hardworking, honest etc. while some of us believe that they are rude, arrogant, lazy, etc. . Either ways, we build this image over years, collecting compliments or…
After reading my previous article ( Read here ) on finding happiness, I got comments concluding that I was promoting poverty or suggesting that money is unimportant. Well, that was never the message. If anything, such a conclusion reflects one of the very misconceptions the article was trying to address: the tendency to view money…
We spend our lives chasing happiness, believing that a little more money, a better house, a prestigious job, or a long-awaited possession will finally make us happy. Society reinforces this belief at every step, and so we continue running, convinced that the next achievement will bring lasting fulfillment. But does it? If it does why…
We often hear that love has changed because people have become busier, more independent, or more ambitious. While this is true, but we miss something more fundamental. The deepest transformation is not in how much we love, but in how we recognise love. For most of human history, love was not expected to be constantly…
Generally its said that good decisions should be based on facts, not assumptions. It sounds like sensible advice until you realize that almost every important decision in our life is built on assumptions. In fact, if we refused to assume anything about the future, we would hardly be able to plan our lives at all….
