The World Within

A happy, positive and successful person has also had a rough, uncomfortable, problem-ridden and painful life just as an unhappy, negative and unsuccessful person has. Something that sets the former apart from the latter is a slight change in perspective. The problems you have in your life, all those aching moments you would rather want to forget, those dull and dark moments, they're all a normal thing to all of us. We all have a lot of crap to deal with in our lives. One thing that I would tell you is that that crap should never hold you down or hold you back from becoming what you want to become or being who you want to be. You have to use all that crap to build yourself up. Honestly, if you have a lot of problems and there's a lot that's going on in your life right now, then consider yourself lucky. You have an opportunity you would not want to miss.  You can let all the experiences and lessons, the problems that life offers, build you up instead of break you down...

We've often heard that happiness acquired from temporary or materialistic means is short lived and that true happiness is one which is self-induced and is not attached to anything. True, Happiness that arises out of external things is bound to fade out as soon as that external thing is taken away. If you are happy because you just bought a new car, then that happiness is not going to last long. As days pass by, it will no longer matter and your new car will grow old, not bringing you any happiness and if it gets stolen, it is bound to make you sad. So we should not be happy due to anything materialistic or external? Quite not. Some materialistic happiness is needed. I'll explain as we progress ahead. So, what is happiness and how does one go about acquiring it? Happiness is a state of mind and I will also add that it is self-induced just as sadness or even anger is. If someone comes up to you and were to slap you, what would happen? That action of getting slapped would ge...

There is one inevitable state of being and of existence that is dreaded by many. Loneliness. Whether by choice or some other reason, loneliness can easily become destructive—of course, if you let it to. The person in acute loneliness begins to sink in deeper and deeper into a dark and empty void that loneliness brings with itself. In a sense, loneliness is a companion albeit a violent and a destructive one and manifests in the form of the person's own thoughts. It can drive one insane after it starts shooting out of control. Sometimes that state leads to complete ruin. Humans are social animals and as much as we need food or water to survive, we do also need company. We need touch. We need each other. We need our community, without which we can easily lose our identity as a conscious and alive being. There are several reasons why someone might face loneliness, but one thing is for sure that everyone in their life goes through an acute or at least some degree of loneliness. Ma...

Quite recently, a friend sent me some lyrics he had written and wanted me to go through them and let him know if they were good—simple enough, but his text also read, "Please rate them something from 1 to 10," which, however, was a little challenging part or that's what I thought. While the innocent scale started at 1 and ended at 10, it really was one going from crappy to perfect. These are things we don't mention, but the numbers really have such implications—you know it, don't you? He had written the stanzas impressively and I liked his choice and placement of words not to forget the meaning the lines conveyed, which was beyond what the words superficially stood for. After reading, feeling and absorbing all I could from his lyrics, I sent him a text letting him know that I liked it and that he'd written them well, soon after which he reminded me that I hadn't rated them—something which I had to. I hadn't just ignored that clause in his text o...

I sat on the raised platform lining and making up the queen's necklace, facing the mighty Arabian Sea. The salty oceanic breeze brushed through my dark hair ruffling them back in the wind. I felt the breeze gliding past my skin, the smooth sensation and this strange awareness that thousands of gas particles composed of Nitrogen, Oxygen, other gases and what not were literally bombarding my skin at extreme speeds and that collectively was causing the sensation I was cherishing at that moment. The concrete platform was warm due to the bright, five o'clock summer sun which was shining high up. I didn't mind the warmth seeping through my skin or the golden rays of the sun which had glazed everything else in a golden hue. The sea captivated me, as I gazed deeper into it. Everything else slowly faded into the oblivion—the various other tourists, some private guards plodding by, the blaring horns and loud car engines in the traffic jam behind me, as well as the skyscrapers ...

I'm a little free after all, in the sense that I can finally start getting back on track, which I've deviated a lot due to unavoidable things turning up every now and then. If I'm trying to stick to a schedule which will exponentially increase my health and productivity then I will really need some time alone with myself to get everything right and straight. In the last few weeks, whenever I've begun and tried to continue a schedule, some or the other thing has caused me to deviate from my schedule which causes me to start everything from scratch—I'm trying to establish habits which once done correctly will be hard to not stick to, but to turn a certain action into a habit, it needs to be done consistently over a sufficient period of time till it gradually gets solidified as a habit. With me? I have followed something for a few days and every time something else has popped up to break the process—just like the last three days completely reset all my progress....