Society and Lifestyle

  “What if I did not clear this interview?”,“What if they did not like me back?”,“What if I fail?” There are incessant “what ifs” waiting for you to call them out and build on them. If you are a horror fanatic, you know that saying the name of the demon out loud makes them more active. The same applies to the ‘what ifs’. These are the demons of our lives. Amid these questions, ranting or venting is so easy that we hardly try to figure the answers. The answer to, what if I fail? can easily be deciphered. The problem can be solved by just turning 'what ifs' to 'even ifs'. But all these questions are inducing fear and pulling us back from taking any step forward. Rather than preparing for the upcoming event, we are questioning ourselves again and again. Darius Foroux’s “Win your inner battles” , used a different approach to understand fears. According to the book, when men used to hunt, the fear helped them warn against some grave dangers, for example, being lynched by...

These days are difficult, let's be easy on ourselves. These days are truly horrid. The newspaper is overcrowded with the death rates and active cases of the Coronavirus. The first news we get through media channels is ‘this many cases reported and this many deaths in last the 24 hours. Moreover, whenever the phone rings we pray it is not what we think it is. It is hard to keep up in such an environment, hard to be positive amidst such negativity. I have chosen not to read or watch what I cannot handle. I am a little extra sensitive when it comes to such information. A day before yesterday, I cried over Kobe Bryant’s and his daughter’s pictures, I don't even know why. Adding on, I visualise images in my head quite comfortably. It is hard for me to read about the floating bodies in Ganga and not imagine the scene. Hence, I have decided not to look up to the news, creating a panic situation within me. Yes, we have only one life and we have to make a difference. But it is not n...