You are supposed to be fit, strong, charming, aggressive, hard-working and social, at 25 the world is there for you to be dealt the way you wish to deal with it. You can take maximum stress without much harm, you are free to risk everything you have, and figure out exactly what works and what doesn’t. You hate being stuck, you are at your lowest, when it comes to patience and you probably make more mistakes and learning a hell more than you have done in your entire life. This is what it means to be 25.

But being 25 has it lows as well. If you don’t get the life you want to have, panic sets in, easily. You become so desperate to achieve your lustful desires (yeah, they become lustful) that you can’t handle rejection & failure, and it cooks a perfect recipe for revolt.

Well, there is dual connotation to ‘Revolt’ here. Either you set to change the rules. They get in your way and sort of...

Today was the start of something that I had been craving to do for long. It’s just, I couldn’t muster the courage to take it forward. May be my internal fears & demons were stopping me to pursue the same but, I have finally taken off. Finally!!!

To break the ice, today was the start of my first stint with a bike. I am learning to ride a bike. When I first felt the bike in my hands it sensed heavy. Then, negative thoughts started engulfing my mind, what if I mess it up into a pillar? If I ride it into a person or break my leg instead? And worst, if I scoot it into a car, I will end up taking the life of a stranger and mine. I was sweating. In the chill of 11 degree Celsius.

My friend who is coaching me to ride it calmed me down and gave the handle into my hand with instructions to first learn to control it if you aspire to control the bike.

Then, a demonstration of what importance...

The other day I was browsing through a list of articles- I have bookmarked in the past, ones I have enjoyed the most. Basically, these articles were the ones that have impacted my life for good. One such article is written by James Clear, where he talks about improving by 1%.

Most of us would dread over the thought of improving by ‘only’ 1% every day, week or month. So here it is:

Actually, James Clear writes about transforming habits, behavioral science and improving performance. Being a health enthusiast by himself, it actually sounds quite weird that he talks about improving by just 1%, in whatever activity, profession or passion you are involved in. Isn’t it delaying the improvement time, accentuating the efforts and loss of will power in between?

The habits that you are trying to form take time. Especially, if you are trying to replace old ones with new- for good. If you just...

If ever Writing Block existed, I am suffering from one. I am not getting new ideas in my head that are worth talking or sharing. For writers, it is the worst phase. It seems, I hardly know anything of substance and it is ever so painful, disgusting & frustrating.

These frequent bouts of creative deficit are due to the fact that I don’t write often. Well, that gets a prompt question remained to be answered- Am I a writer at all? That’s what I reckon myself to be. But lack of my creative instincts during writing leaves this question staring continuously into my eyes.

Every day, I plan to write something that I know or what makes me feel good but I fail miserably at it. During all these years I have donned a writer’s hat at every job but my current job leaves me with very little scope of producing creative stuff, atleast for my own sake.

I know being a writer, I shouldn’t be...

Just to remind you the facts once more before I barrage this article with few thought provoking questions- India is home to certain 1.20 bn people out of certain little more than 7 billion people on this earth and we are right at the top in the IT & ITes services. Moment of immense pride…really? World’s top global companies outsource their IT services to us. Kudos!!! Probably the industry puts bread & butter on the plates of millions of people.

I am not being cynical at all. My bone of contention here is to contemplate why we don’t produce “coders”? Why we don’t produce enough world class coders who can build next big products? A product that India can swell its chest upon and become the world’s envy. Well a tough question with an obvious answer.

To say the least- Coders are a rare species. They think, breathe, write and eat code. They simply make computers do what they want them to...

For me writing well makes me feel good about myself. I really feel the jubilation and rush of adrenaline when I get words flowing like water- in harmony and at regular interval. And this is when you find your actual tone and voice as a writer.

Every writer writes in a certain peculiar style which is different from others like some write in a conversational style while some write in third person and some write in first person where you get the impression that whatever they are writing has indeed happened to them. Well, it is the way of putting your argument strongly so that people can understand what the writer is trying to convey.

I feel the biggest job of a writer is to help portray the environment in the minds of his readers exactly the way he wants it. So that the readers may feel and experience the same joy, despair, gratitude, grief and excitement as the writer goes through or...

I have been trying really hard these days to keep fit. I have started to run 5 stretches of a park which is reasonably big in size. Some days, I am able to run and feel the satisfaction and someday my body parts just refuse to move. This is when guilt resides in my mind. I feel like, I have ruined all the work that I have accumulated in the past weeks or days.

This ‘guilt’ really is a very harmful thing to happen to any person. It gets so hard to concentrate on the work; you are like always thinking of it even when you are engaged in a meeting, at your home, office, coffee shop etc.

People who are suffering from obesity feel the same kind of guilt when they binge on to that extra smoothie or that hamburger which they painstakingly avoided during the day. This guilt is the reason of more harms than good. Off course when guilt resides in your mind, the person curses himself for...

My mind these days is into a strange quandary, I can’t think properly, having just too many thoughts going through which are pretty irrelevant and hypothetical. My mind is constantly juggling me into the future and past. It is making me reflect on the past mistakes and actions which may have direct bearing on my future course and I am sort of stuck at it.

It is pretty clear to me from my behavior and antics that I am thinking way too much and it is where the real problem persists. If I dive deep into my state of mind and conscience, I am particularly worried about what future holds for me and it is in a way holding me back & I am not being able to concentrate on my present. It is affecting my work. In fact while writing this piece, I am making far too many errors then I normally do.

In short, my mind is not in a state of peace rather it is in a state of pure chaos where I find no way...

I get sleepless nights thinking about my future and career path I would take. It is all bizarre to think about what has not been transpired yet be confused and worried over it, but that’s how we humans go.

The words that are flying these days like a fire in the Australian wilds- “Love what you do and do what you love”. Well that’s an incredibly motivating quote to read but a very disgusting and sometimes purely hypothetical quote when you apply it into practicality.

We humans by nature evolve over a period of time. Like I always wanted to become a pilot who could fly those supersonic jets but this dream slipped away in the mist of different interests I developed over a period of time. I then had a fantasy to become an engineer, a doctor, a banker and it all just kept changing till I completed my college.

If you look for patterns (well there is are patterns as such, all pure work of...