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Digital Friendships

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Are online friends worth it?   I was in sixth grade when I went online for the first time to chat with couple of my friends. They were the same friends with whom I spent most of my day at school. Facebook was new and so were we to the internet. We used to plan and decide the timings to co-ordinate our presence on the internet world. This world was so fascinating that it ended up in our daily routine time table. I vividly remember that I always managed to take out time in between homework and playing outside to sit and chat in front of a desktop. And now, history has repeated itself. Here, we are sitting in front of our screens again. The only difference is, this time we are not excited at all. We are not excited to chat with a friend who lives just 15 minutes away. The pandemic has not only jeopardized our physical well being but has injured the intimacy as well. We are talking to our best friends as same as we are talking a new person. How will these digital friendships t...

The Book of Twenties

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WHAT ARE TWENTIES FOR?  “Your twenties are going to be the prime years of your life.” What does it mean to have “prime years”? Does it mean to suffer for a successful future or to make it a life of a party? Existential crisis is the term which came into existence during 20s. The self critic is so active that you may feel worthless .  Establishing self identity, balancing intimate relationships and forming a career, is a lot on the plate to begin the adult life with and can be a catalyst to drown the mood.                                                                                                         Every chapt...