Gathering thoughts…
A world of little thoughts.
My first book read by an Indian author, was, The Book Of Short Stories, By Rabindranath Tagore. It was in my school library at the age of 13, when I discovered this masterpiece. I was enthralled by the collection of stories in it that gave a brief understanding of the prevalent complex caste system, society and…
I think it’s time to pick this thing back up and micro-journal daily. The goal. To create a writing habit that sticks.
me: i have a once in a lifetime opportunity for you seb: ok? me: do you want to hear it? seb: well they're usually scams me: so do do you still want to hear it? seb: sure me: ok, so how about when you're done making that box, you can go rinse off the deck while i dust off and vacuum down here? seb: weren't all of…
Sometimes everything feels a bit off. The motivation isn’t quite there and nothing flows like you want it to. The most frustrating thing is that the main problem I have these days is that I can’t seem to type properly. Normally I’m pretty good at not misspelling things but when I have those days I’m always messing up…
I googled synonyms for happiness because I didn't want to sound cliché but all of them sounded too pretentious. Lol. This is just a personal take on the feeling that everyone is so bent on finding. I’d read headlines off of newspapers and magazines that told me stories of people and the lives they lived. To me at that…
Imagine as KB said - what if you live life regretting that you could've done more I always imagined if I was like what I was when I study for exams. On the last day. Or the last hour. The hormones or the awareness just made me increase my capabilities by 1000%. But I was a 10% prior to that last hour. Imagined that.…
This morning I watched a desert spiny lizard successfully intimidate an antelope ground squirrel. The squirrel is a delicate but scrappy creature. The lizard on the other hand is a spiny and tentative being. The squirrel lay bathing in a little patch of dust warmed by a sunbeam. He indulgently rubbed his belly and…
After I revisited Richard Siken's wonderful poem 'Birds hover the trampled field', I wrote a lot in my Google docs. I didn't 'get it' the first time I read it, which must be about three or four years ago by now, but I didn't have to get it. I let the meaning of it develop in my mind unconsciously without trying to…
Imagine my third-grade surprise when I got to Kingston the first time since migrating and found out our driver was named "Drugs." My grandmother arranged the pickup and everyone was saying this name like it was a normal title. Like his name was John or Joe. Except, it was a word that'd been drilled into my head the…
No matter how good their life becomes, some people will find things to complain about. It doesn't matter where you put them. What you change about their life. They will crib. They will find things going wrong in their lives and rant about it. The problem is not their situation. It is not the people around them. They…
Hoje eu fui na festa de aniversário de uma colega de trabalho. Super novinha ela, esqueci de perguntar a idade, mas não passa dos 23 anos. Linda, solar, alto astral, com tudo pela frente. Feliz de estar perto de gente jovem que ainda não perdeu a esperança na vida. Refresca e renova real!! Ela escolheu o parque…
There's a sickening feeling of being surrounded by darkness. What feels like an everlasting doom consuming your peripherals. You're trapped, maybe not physically, but mentally, or both. If, one stands in place, that place becomes your home. A home that echoes into the voids of your mind driving you insane. The purpose…
Twitter is different from Instagram and YouTube because Twitter is where politics and journalism live. Journalists construct the world. The media world the rest of us live in. If you influence Twitter, you influence the ink that fills the pages of culture more broadly. TV producers and reporters are listening to what…
My earliest memory of paperwork was the annual trip to National Book Center to buy brown paper which I would use to cover our text and note books. Then the beautiful letters that my Grandparents would write from New Delhi or the ones that my Masi would write from Boston. Also, the special note pad that my Father had…
For a change, I'm not fishing for a topic in the river of my thoughts. I was thinking about the idea of feeling heard today. In fact, I got thinking about it when I first interned as a journalist. I spent most days in those two months running from pillar to post, attending press meetings, gathering 'newsbites' from…
One gets a sense of a particular culture's deepest anxieties by examining its curses. Curses are an expression of a culture's most undesirable or objectionable state of being. It's like saying, "here's the thing I would dislike the most, and it's exactly what I wish upon you." The inverse of empathy. The most powerful…
O título vem de uma frase que Gabi Pankekinha falou no BBB, às 3h28 do dia 7 de abril. Eu gosto do BBB por isso. Por algumas semanas, você tem acesso a formas mais cruas de pensar do que a gente vê nas redes sociais. Diálogos genuínos, dores e alegrias reais. Eu vejo super como aprendizado, mesmo. Eu comecei a…
The golden sun dissolves into the forest which now looks like a painting. Warm wind kisses the cheek and tingles with her open hair. I lie down on the soft green grass with my friends. we listen to machine-made music from Britain. The air is crowded from the smoke of Davidoff. The mountains somehow resemble the folds…
Oh Hi! This seems so cool! 🤩 I love it, simple and clean. Oh it counts words not letters. Means,ifIdon’tUseSpace,itCountsJustOneWordLOL(thisIsStill1word!HaHa). Very interesting. I love this font, it makes me feel like I’m coding 😂
reflect & manifest reverb23 in january adapts the reverb10 event shared about in this post - https://nicheless.blog/post/before-%7C-reverb-in-december-20 "... online initiative to reflect on your year and manifest what’s next ... an opportunity to reflect on what's happened, and to send out reverberations for the year…
Y entonces, cuando pensé que había sido todo, resulta que no. Resulta que volviste a escribirme. Y una vez más vuelvo a confirmar que lo tuyo es muy, muy profundo. Hoy, después de mucho pensármelo, te mandé una canción, con un texto bastante escueto, pero con mensaje profundo y sincero. Decía: Hola... Cómo estás? Qué…
Good Evening. It is 0:24 AM where I am right now. It is nice to write words again. Tt feels good to do something that's not participating in the negativity and cynicism and general heat of 21st century mainstream media. Here's to a new sincerity, to humanity, to thoughtfulness, and the generosity that's only possible…
ahh Poetry from eras gone show why our words are powerful. They inspire new creations decades and centuries later. It connects us to the past, present and future. One day I would like to design Poetry, but for now I do not know what to say. Time will give me a stronger voice...
Fitness fads come and go. Depending on who one talks to or what one reads, the recommended exercise routine for adults keeps changing. The latest one doing the rounds is the importance of sprint and interval training and the photograph is from a recent session. 30 minutes on the treadmill with eight sprints timed…
Evolution ist nicht zielgerichtet, nicht linear, nicht auf den Menschen hin ausgerichtet. Evolution - was auch immer wir damit meinen - ist chaotisch, ein Prozess, geprägt von Anpassung, Umwelten, Zufall (!) / Mutation, und Selektion. Evolution ist Kultur! Und Zufall, Evolution ist ein Machtspiel und kein Machtspiel.…
Is there anything worse than feeling alone? To believe you are worthless. To envy those who aren't alone. To regret your decisions. To question your very existence. To feel your life passing, surrounded by love and laughter, and yet so far away from achieving it. To write and hope the pain dulls. To invite sleep with…
It's the first week back at my job after a two week vacation. I had a nice Monday: no meetings, just checking email, code reviews. Then, on Tuesday, the onslaught begins. Meetings, meetings, Slack, distractions, multiple threads, dropping balls all over the place. Feeling dumb. Here we go again. I got some feedback…
Hello! I am glad to be here and just type out my thoughts, not for the sake of anyone but myself. Hopefully I get to be regualar in the process. Look forward to it. Currently I am preparing for my Steps for my future residency program, so this is not a great time to start. Nonetheless, this can be an outlet and a…
You’re either making it - making change in the world Or you’re just living the game If it’s too heavy; forget about the past and the future - just carry the present The best skilled people knows that skills comes with discomfort; and only by persevering in discomfort you’re able to gain skills The best is actually…
It's been over a decade since I last started a blog, so curious how this will feel. Blog feels like an outdated term for this—I guess I mean, "long-form tweet!" Just perused the aforementioned blog I made as a young person. I'm so glad to have a record of that time, even though I didn't write much about anything that…
i think that information consumption is the opposite of navel-gazing; being so afraid of navel-gazing, i went completely the other way, reading books to become aware of others but i think it's good to look both ways; 50-50? i don't know -- to the degree that it feels most enjoyable, maybe navel-gazing vs…
So I have this little theory about communion. It's not something I care enough about to actully research - but I think it's fun in a 'plausible but unscientific TV plot' kind of way. So most people are familiar with the practice of communion in the Christian church, people eat little bits of bread and wine which…
Neil DeGrasse Tyson once made an argument underlining the difference between a political/courtroom debate and a scientific debate. And according to him, the crux of the difference lies in the possibility of an agreement between the two participants based on mutually agreed, objective, observable facts. That is, for…
A spiritual advisor said "gratitude is an action." So as we send text messages and, for the special ones, phone calls of gratitude to those in our life, it is time for me to reflect on how I display gratitude, rather that a simple admission of being "thankful." To my wife and family, I am grateful. She has a full time…
8 out of 10 people hate their jobs; If you love what you do daily, you're one of the few lucky people. Rest all of us are like lost satellites drifting away deep in the space with no mission and no clue of why we are even doing it. Taking back the control of your life into your own hands is not as easy as people talk…
Why is it that you see most of the philosophers talking about high performance rarely act upon them and are high performers? Philosophers tend to romanticise life in their heads and yet dont see the beauty of the world they live in. Here, is something to note that I have read some of the works of alan watts, Jiddu…
Have you ever scrolled through your past writings or posts online and had a feeling of cringe. That can't be me, What a stupid I was ! I am sure you have, at some point. In part, this is explained by a phenomenon called Denning - Kruger effect. The less you know about something, the more likely you are to not know…
To Jiang Wei & Bryan: don’t just think of yourself: 下次跟你们抽, 我现在赶时间 If you reroute it same destination but different feels: 我回来再跟你们抽 我刚好要meet 朋友; 这个可以让他们好回 因为你让他们开心,所以他们也不会 因为你的不开心而不让你开心 The most topnotch about emotional intelligence: people care about you because you care about them; and also you have that aura ✨ and…
my transitional coworker, a coworker who took over my piano teaching job for me and who, during this transition, became my friend, is a musician more precisely stated, his main thing, as he sees it, is the music he makes, and this piano teaching gig, as he sees it, is just a side hustle -- it's the root that nourishes…
Strive for making the hardest decision Even relationships or flirting People don’t expect the easiest answer you know… it’s kinda easy to say the most obvious answer Think twice - and go for the hardest Think of this life: you’re playing the childhood game & suddenly you’re 26/27 Age is just a number. Now you gotta do…
Finn lysningen Der trærnes viklende røtter viker plass for himmelen Der solen når helt ned Et åpent rom Et lerret av luft, oppspent i mørk, ugjennomtrengelig skjebneskog Vent her Vær tålmodig som mosen Ta mykt i mot den neste som kommer vaklende ut mellom stammene Vi leter alle etter stien Vi lengter, men vet ikke hvor
ahh as i continue to think about digital worlds my mind draws to how i would like to be 'seen' inside of these worlds. digital fashion has been emerging with mainstream NFT projects as mundane clothing that imitates what we wear today. yet a digital world does not require us to wear clothes with the same intent. i…
Incidents that have scarred me from Nelson: 1. ITC, telling me to not initiate conversations with guys until they talk to me first 2. Telling me that I should not disagree with him in public multiple times 3. Breaking my glasses because he was angry 4. Telling me wearing a langa voni for my sisters engagement and…
In my previous blog, I wrote about an interrupted childhood - one where I was a day away from beginning tennis classes, when my family broke apart over the course of one consequential night. A few weeks ago, I decided to experience the reality that could have altered my childhood. Life throws curveballs at us that we…
I used to be a man who wanted to go into women's toilets. This wasn't a gender identity issue and I'm not a pervert. This had to do with the fact that I am the father of four daughters, who were once small girls. The default position on fathers taking their daughters to a public toilet is that they should go together…
My girlfriends laughed when they wondered out loud if I wrote about them in my journal. Journals conjure up images of teenage girls' diaries under lock and key. Of course, they were curious. They saw me writing each morning of our getaway trip. What juicy details were included in my daily writings? Until then, I…
His eyes were shut, and everything was dark. He inhaled, sharply, snapping his head upright. It were as though life abruptly crashed into him. Slowly, he wiggled his toes. Pinky toes first, gradually working toward the big ones. He was alive, but that was all he knew with certainty. He tried to blink, but his lids…
AHH. There are many objects in the world. this makes me wonder how do i decide on what are the things that i desire? i thought long about the answer; it must speak with me. i find the following quote very true "As soon as you put on one garment, it speaks to your personality" by Virgil Abloh. objects may seem…
