THE REFLECTIONS OF MY MIND

We all believe in the power of Karma because we’ve all somehow experienced it ourselves or watched it happen to someone else. We’re all flawed and we’ve all made certain choices that we’re not very proud of. We’re all responsible for our own actions but Karma is responsible for how we’re treated for them. The thing about Karma is that you never realise when it’s about to come for you.  Karma is the universe’s mechanism to punish or reward you for your deeds. Karma waits for none, but comes for everyone.  My idea is to link Karma with whatever that your mind is feeling bothered about. If you’re wearing your heart on your sleeve for that friend of yours who doesn’t bother to even check up on you, leave it to Karma. If you’re struggling to feel a moment of love from the person who doesn’t value you enough, leave it to Karma. If you’re being bullied and bothered by something that someone did to you, leave it to Karma. Trust it’s power and let it do what it wants to. Remember how w...

A simple appeal to the society that has divided men and women in the name of feminism— “The advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes”— this right here is the definition of feminism as defined by our very reliable search engine, Google. A lot of people have different ideas about feminism and I’m not here to support them or advocate against them. I’m only here to express my honest opinion and maybe, try to preach our men and women to love each other again.  I want you all to first assess the true meaning of equality before you start defining politically strong terms like feminism. Equality means, the state of being equal in terms of status, rights and opportunities. And, now that you know what equality means, can you really say that men and women are treated equally with respect to status, rights and opportunities? NO.  And now, let’s look into the definition of feminism as I mentioned above—The advocacy of women’s rights on the GROUND OF THE EQUALIT...

Remember the time when crying was our green signal to everything? We cried when we were hungry, we cried when we wet our nappies, we cried when we wanted to play, we cried when we were sleepy and the best of all, we cried every time a new person tried to cuddle us up! Baby life was so fascinating, one moment our mothers were literally struggling to get even one hour of rest during the day and the next moment we could see her capturing us doing something completely foolish which by the way, she found adorably cute. If only she knew what we were going to grow into! All through these years, we looked at the world so cluelessly while our families kept planning our lives at every step.  The theory here is, for over sixteen years of our lives, we gave an unquestionable hall pass to our parents to nurture us, mould us and make decisions for us and all of a sudden when we’re twenty, we want everything in our control? Major hypocrisy alert here, but HOW on earth can we except our pare...

From our morning newspaper to our domestic help, from amusement parks to movie theatres and malls, from public transport to air travel—LITERALLY everything has come to a standstill. I really haven’t experienced anything crazier than this in the history of my entire life so far and I’m sure even you never saw a catastrophe like this coming your way.  We almost never knew that life could look like this too. I mean us millennials not knowing when we’ll get to go out next is absolutely devastating. But, you know what else is devastating? The world falling apart.  We’re smart, educated individuals. We are probably not looking at the reality of things as clearly as our parents want us to, but we’re definitely doing the world a favour by staying home. I understand that waking up to another godforsaken news every morning is just a major buzzkill (as if life isn’t already a HUGE buzzkill in itself, but okay), in fact I myself wake up to a major commotion induced by the sounds of...

Always having lived under my parents’ protective shield, coming to Chennai to pursue my graduation was probably the most challenging decision I had to make. My parents always thought of me as the more naive and gullible one among me and my younger sister which also made this, the toughest decision they ever had to make. It wasn’t easy, of course. I would be leaving behind an entire world I had been part of for eighteen long years of my life, my parents would have to finally break open that shell they built around me for years and my sister too, would get lesser of her best friend at home. And what was all this for? Only so that I could build myself a career.  Fast forward to April 7th, 2016; I stood by my hostel gate at SRM Institute of Science and Technology to bid a final goodbye to my little family who I wouldn’t see for the next six months at least. As I saw them leave, all kinds of thoughts gushed into my system. Thoughts like, “Is this really happening?”, “Am I real...

There is a thin line of difference between being known and being recognized—people who want to be recognized don’t want to be known and those who want to be known, hardly care about being recognised. ⠀ I’ve always been an extrovert and I’ve never hesitated to express myself before people, even when I’ve hardly known them. I express too soon and as an immediate consequence of that, I’m judged even sooner. I don’t blame them, though.  I should’ve chosen a better audience.  ⠀ I’m guilty of trying too hard with friendships. I’ve always felt the need to go all out and extra when it came to keeping people. And, every time I’ve done that, I’ve always lost. The problem is, people don’t appreciate effort as much as we think they do. ⠀ I realized with time, that friendships are everything but hard work. They don’t require too much effort, they only require an understanding of minimal efforts. We could go hours, days and even months without seeing them or even talking to them, but we kn...