Redefining Life - Recreating meanings

Pic credits: Wave accounting The most interesting part of our lives which involves continuous learning is “Travel”. Travelling might be moving within the city, country or even across the world. When we go on trips or expeditions, we get to experience an overall package of emotions which carves a deep relentless memory that we carry throughout our lives. However, no tour whether long or short can be satisfactorily completed without the assistance and guidance of a “Travel guide”.  While I was on a tour to explore one of my favorite historic destinations of Karnataka, which was also the capital of the “Vijayanagar” empire, that is none other than the spectacular “ Hampi”, I realised that without my tour guide, I would have definitely witnessed the obvious places but at the same time would have certainly missed noticing and recognising some of the unique and worthwhile spots which added so much more value to my exploration that would have otherwise led to an incomplet...

On a gloomy Tuesday morning, my brother and I were having a cup of coffee and looking through our phones, while I noticed this sudden shocked expression on his face and asked what had happened, with the same bewilderment, he said that one of his school mates had attempted suicide. And the reason left my mind boggled, yes! The reason was he failed to seize a suitable job for himself even a year after completing his engineering. When he was asked by my brother as to what pushed him to take such a drastic step, the reply that came was “an unsuccessful person doesn’t deserve to live”. My question is, on what basis did he judge himself as unsuccessful?                                                                               Pic credits; decisivemarketer.com Is “success” the ultimate m...

                                           Pic credit:Changebyexchange.com  Life involves various emotions like joy, sorrow, anger, fear , surprise etc. A person can never escape from experiencing or feeling all of them in his/her life span and it is a fact that can never be changed at any point in time. On the contrary, every individual is solely focused  on uncovering that one person, place or situation to which they can hold onto and consistently  experience this comforting superlative emotion of "happiness" throughout. The truth is that the creator is generous enough to bestow this super power upon us which says "Human beings can choose how they want to feel at a given point in time" . Once we learn to use this power flawlessly, no individual  will struggle to find happiness outside, as we can invariably feel happy from within with anybo...

                                          Photo credits- Meaningfullife.com                                             Game of life often oscillates between “Bench” and a “Swing”. It always tries to maintain balance between moments of bliss and sorrow. Sometimes we get to enjoy the beautiful moments that allow us to sit back, relax and enjoy just the way we rest on a bench in a beautiful park. But on the other side, we are pushed into innumerable tests and unwelcoming situations that often make us feel unstable exactly representing a ride on a swing. Purpose of life is not just working and searching for happiness. The best way to live life is to keep moving forward and living every moment with acceptance whether bliss or sorrow. Record only the best feeling...

Before google maps was invented to guide us through our paths so that we don’t take an incorrect route and reach the wrong destination, God created this fool proof guide to lead us through our lives, we call them as “parents”. Parents are like a compass to children’s’ life: whenever we feel lost in this vast world, parents’ guide us to be back on the right track. They form the most concrete foundation for all the “first impressions” in a Child's life. These first impressions during a child’s early life form a strong base or structure for its character and attitude towards life. Therefore it becomes supremely important for all the new age parents to get this point right: human beings possess the great power of bringing another life onto this world, but they should never forget that “with great power comes great responsibility”.                                           Ph...

Why do most of us struggle, when it comes to love? Is loving someone a difficult task? Does it involve a lot of analysis to love? Do we need any reason to love? Why is it tough to maintain the love we have towards someone forever? Should we love someone only if we are sure of receiving it back from them? Now a days we all effortlessly say we love someone, be it husband, wife, siblings, friends, parents etc. eventually the emotion which we feel for that person diminishes for various reasons like; when the love is not reciprocated, when the quality you like the most in him/her is not seen anymore, when the person you love hurts you, when the person you love doesn’t make you feel important, when the person you love loses his/her beauty and so on. But when we activate all our senses to understand this aspect of “PURE LOVE”, the question that we need to answer ourselves is, does “love” have a basis? Is love a materialistic approach or an idealistic approach? Let us make a...

Where is the working world going – Is it hitting a dead end?? Is the basics of humanity vanishing in the employment world with the increasing desire to be on top, the richest and most powerful? – is it even leading us anywhere? Let us make an attempt to analyse the deteriorating work culture which is creating extremely disinterested and demotivated employees in huge numbers. As all of us spend most part of our lives in our work places and also maximum time of our day there, it becomes extremely important to understand and analyse where we are going wrong as most of the working class are being affected with depression, low confidence level, lack of interest to live, fear to acquaint with people, fear to believe friends/colleagues, deteriorating mental and physical health and most importantly they are failing to find meaning in whatever work they do. Now a day’s people are of the opinion that all their hard work and efforts are serving no purpose at all. While conve...

Social media in recent years has become the most influential, impactful and fastest medium of exchanging ideas and sharing content across the world among all age groups. Among various crazy challenges which go viral from time to time, 10 years challenge was one of those which went vigorously viral across the world that even pulled some of the world famous celebrities into it like Ellen Degeneres, Miley cyrus etc to name a few. While this “ 10 years challenge” was buzzing on the internet platform   which mainly involved people posting their photos 10 years back and hence, a simple yet complicated thought struck me as to , if at all world was on social media platform what would it   post for the 10 year challenge? Further, let’s try to sort this thought out by getting into the shoes of the WORLD itself!! Talking about human touch, back then during 2009, birthdays, anniversaries etc would be filled with receiving wishes from loved ones and celebrating with friends an...

“Generous” as the word itself says “the quality of giving anything more than you ask for or the quality of giving anything in plenty”. Now when we add the word “selflessly” to the above meaning, a synonym for the word “generous” can be derived which is “MOTHER”. This is the story of one such selflessly generous mother named “Ahalya”. Ahalya was born in a typical orthodox Iyer family dwelling in the beautiful city of Tanjore, in the state of Tamil Nadu. At a very young age of 4, she lost her mother and was brought up with immense warmth and affection by her grandmother. This made her realise the value of a mother and therefore, at a very young age, she decided to herself that she is going to be the best mother to her children. After finishing her basic schooling, Ahalya got married and moved to Bangalore along with her husband, who was an exceedingly egoistic, narcissistic, unresponsive and irresponsible man which she barely knew before marriage. Initially she was disturbed and s...