Hi All,
I have forsaken this blog since 2018. Mainly attributed to my lackadaisical attitude towards everything that I try in life, I have recently learnt that my pessimism also has a part to play in this. I have always wondered the possible difference a few words on the page of a CA-cum-poet can make, where the page is not even known to enough people, let alone read.
However, I was reading this book - The virtue of selfishness by Ayn Rand and it has completely change my perspective towards life. The general feel of the book is - Motion is life, Stagnation is death and from that I interpret that every decision we take in life is just that - a choice between life and death. Invariably, I chose death over life at every instance.
Let me give you an example. You have to complete a book. Its your dream to write a poetry book and you have given yourself 50 days to complete it. Now, every time you don't work on the book and choose sleeping in or binge-watching a series on netflix or just going out to get drunk and come back, incapable of lifting a pen or pushing that power-button of your laptop, you are choosing death. You are choose ways of passive living, the kind of living that has no impact on yourself or your surroundings.
If you spend 50 days working on the book and the book is not completed you will still come out a lot smarter than your version of 50 days ago. However, if you just go out get drunk and come back, you can do it for 50 or 500 days, there will be no real growth to your personality, your perceptions or your profession.
Making that choice to work on the book or complete a 37 day exercise challenge or learning how to cook, ride a bike, play chess... all these things give a certain dimension to your personality and that will only happen if you're doing these things to do these things - i.e. you're choosing life - instead of doing these things to escape from doing other things - i.e. you're choosing an escape from this life.
Hence, I have decided to revive this blog because I can't see the premature death of something I created. Well, not anymore. So, this blog is less for the viewers and more for the writer - for me - because the person most affected by this will be me. I hope you find it worthwhile to spend your time here. But even if you don't, no pressure.
This blog will feature strong opinions about the government, meaningful breakdowns of song lyrics and insightful poetry about life and lots more. Stay tuned.
I have forsaken this blog since 2018. Mainly attributed to my lackadaisical attitude towards everything that I try in life, I have recently learnt that my pessimism also has a part to play in this. I have always wondered the possible difference a few words on the page of a CA-cum-poet can make, where the page is not even known to enough people, let alone read.
However, I was reading this book - The virtue of selfishness by Ayn Rand and it has completely change my perspective towards life. The general feel of the book is - Motion is life, Stagnation is death and from that I interpret that every decision we take in life is just that - a choice between life and death. Invariably, I chose death over life at every instance.
Let me give you an example. You have to complete a book. Its your dream to write a poetry book and you have given yourself 50 days to complete it. Now, every time you don't work on the book and choose sleeping in or binge-watching a series on netflix or just going out to get drunk and come back, incapable of lifting a pen or pushing that power-button of your laptop, you are choosing death. You are choose ways of passive living, the kind of living that has no impact on yourself or your surroundings.
If you spend 50 days working on the book and the book is not completed you will still come out a lot smarter than your version of 50 days ago. However, if you just go out get drunk and come back, you can do it for 50 or 500 days, there will be no real growth to your personality, your perceptions or your profession.
Making that choice to work on the book or complete a 37 day exercise challenge or learning how to cook, ride a bike, play chess... all these things give a certain dimension to your personality and that will only happen if you're doing these things to do these things - i.e. you're choosing life - instead of doing these things to escape from doing other things - i.e. you're choosing an escape from this life.
Hence, I have decided to revive this blog because I can't see the premature death of something I created. Well, not anymore. So, this blog is less for the viewers and more for the writer - for me - because the person most affected by this will be me. I hope you find it worthwhile to spend your time here. But even if you don't, no pressure.
This blog will feature strong opinions about the government, meaningful breakdowns of song lyrics and insightful poetry about life and lots more. Stay tuned.
