Category: Questions
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Rising From Ashes
Why Starting From Scratch Is Not a Failure? I was building my own castle with sticks, and now that it has burned to the ground, I have a fresh start, with everything I have learnt from what I have lost.
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When You Cannot Beat Death
If you could switch lives with a famous person for a week, who would it be and why? I have seen people with all the money in the world still unable to beat death. So, I choose to live my own life for a week.
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Writing Was Therapy Before It Became a Hobby
How do you manage stress? Journal entries, poems, at this point, anything that bothers me. It doesn’t have to be every day, and I do not expect to write every day. It is now so much a part of what I want that it just happens every day. It is a habit that has saved…
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Not Invincible, Just Winter
Why I Am Who I Am? The winter always takes me by surprise. How did I survive last year? That is my question every year. That is how I feel about falling for the wrong people. Why did I do it last time, and how did I survive? The winter always has me holding my…
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Love Is Not So Complex
Why Am I Obsessed With Blue? Blue as it can be, and reminds me of the ocean, so familiar yet not safe. I will jump without a full description of what I am walking into. No hugs, no smiles, just no eye contact. That is what we have ended up with. Some might see me…
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Biggest Self sabotage
How I failed Myself? If I cannot be my own voice and stand strong against all kinds of words, I believe I have failed myself, big time. If I cannot stand against all my enemies and not allow even the slightest dent, I have failed myself, big time. If your presence causes me to question…
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From The Vault
Why I Wrote A Poem When I Felt The Worst? Waited until I felt better to post this. I write this at my worst,thoughts running in cyclesand no shut-eye. Why would I write at my worst,with a broken mirror,a black cat crossing the road,a glass of milk slipping out of my hands?A moment. I pray…
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A Poem After Four Months
Why Connections Matter More Important Than Love ? I fell in love once or twice,not the way I’d seen in fairy tales,so I said to myself, not real. Now it is burnt into my memory,and everyone who is here,I love with a full heart. I live for connections.I do not live for happy endings. I…
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I Stole My Answer
Which celebrity would you love to meet, and what would you talk about? I remember the actor Jonathan Roumie from The Chosen answering a similar question. I believe he was asked, “If you could have a cup of coffee with Jesus, what is the one question you would ask?” And he answered, “How did I…
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Failed The 100th Time
Why is change so difficult? Our brains tend to prefer familiarity and predictability. Uncertainty can trigger a stress response because our brains are trying to work out what to expect and whether we are safe. You will see people who have failed for the hundredth time taking another setback like it is just another Tuesday.…
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Lost In Translation
Why Love Is Love? When the internet defines love as complex and deep, all I have seen and felt is how simple and fulfilling love is. When people label love as sin, I know they have lost the meaning of love in translation. They have put love in one box and said, “That is it.”…
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Consistency Combats Mood
Why should our mood not affect our work ? If we rely on our mood to direct our productivity, we are in the trenches, not wanting to even move. Most days, I’d rather just write and not do anything else. But some days, I am so excited to work that writing feels like too much.…
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Think Twice And Do It
What’s one thing you know now that would have saved your younger self a lot of pain? Just do what you know will work, do not over analyse small decisions. Trust your gut. Regret is only when you do not even try and get stuck at overanalyzing.
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Healthcare Assistant’s Perspective
Why Be A Healthcare Assistant? I have worked as a Healthcare Assistant for over two years now. Every carer I have met has a different reason for becoming a Healthcare Assistant, from why they joined the profession to why they are still in it. What I have found in my time is that they have…
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Beauty In Uncertainty
Would you rather know your future or be able to change your past? I would not be where I am if I changed the past. Knowing the future would only take away the enthusiasm of following my curiosity. I’d be more focused on changing the future than learning from it. Life is better when I…
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Never The Same
Tell us about your morning routine. It is different every day. Which is not that good for me. The first thing I do is drink, a lot of water. The only thing that is the same every day. I know what I want to do for the day. I have a checklist in my mind.…
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Simply Being Present
When do you know if you have connected with someone? If we can spend time in silence together without wanting to fill it with words, I know I have made a strong connection.It has to be a person who loves to talk but is also okay with being silent. It doesn’t make them anxious.If they…
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Obsess Over Being Balanced
Why Does Everything Feel So Broken and not So When Looked Zoomed Out? I always thought that if I zoomed in on any situation, I could solve it. Not really, not by the slightest. It just makes everything worse. I am not saying that sweeping things under the rug makes them any better. You understand,…
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Unique Understanding of World
Are We How We Were Created, or Do We Change? The assumption that we are a certain way has no place in the 21st century, where we have unravelled emotional regulation. Empathy has opened up an understanding of areas where being a certain way applies. Knowing our unique understanding of the world and ourselves should…
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Fastest Way To Know Someone
If aliens arrived tomorrow, what’s the first thing you’d ask them? Can I be your friend? That’s the first thing that came to my mind. I’m a kid at heart. I know the fastest way to get to know someone is to be their friend. And what better way than to just ask if I…
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Friends To Lovers
Why Most Relationships Fade? Mutual respect goes a long way in maintaining any relationship. Putting people on a pedestal is different from mutual respect. And here is why: we forget to see a person for who they are if we put them on a pedestal, just because of the way they look. Whereas mutual respect…
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Knowing What To Be When
What’s the most underrated life skill? Many times this skill can go unnoticed, mostly when you are focusing on being what others think you should be. We have many skills but when to use which one makes us who we are, relentless, resilient, even stubborn is wildly misunderstood and labeled as negative. Fine-tuning where you…
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Explore Before Settling
Why Did I Go Back To The First Company I Worked For? There is a very natural curiosity to explore the work you like in different companies, especially if you have only worked for one company. That was the position I was in, and I had to make the scariest decision to apply to different…
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Follow Your Own Growth
What’s a personal mantra or philosophy you live by? I have heard many, none of them helped. Just have good morals, and that will bring you back from the worst situations. Knowing that I could always be myself, that I am a good person without questioning my morals. The confusion is when there are questions…
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Not Always For Me.
What makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning? Sometimes it is the work that I love, sometimes the sun, and when both of these things look bleak, myself. Other times, I get out of bed for others. I need to be present and be one percent okay to function for others,…
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There Is Something For Everyone
What’s the best way to explore a new city? Talk to the locals. Google Maps does not tell you anything about the real experience, only fragments of it.Enter a bar or a café and just interact with people. I am too introverted to have to do this; my anxiety would just have crushed me.For people…
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Not Credited But Maybe Most Valuable
If you could instantly become excellent at one skill, what would it be? I believe it is a skill, but very much not credited. To read people, you cannot really know people, and I feel people changing is a huge reason why it is not okay to make an assumption. So if I could read…
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Present Is The Greatest Gift
What’s a moment in your life that made you feel truly alive? Every time I decide to be in the present, I feel truly alive. Most of my life, I have lived in fantasy because I was too scared to face reality. As a kid, it is easier to stray into a limbo most of…
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Finding That Balance With Necessities
What everyday invention do you think has changed human life the most? Smartphones, no matter the age. I think smartphones have changed human life the most. They have taken over our lives to a point where we are sedentary. So my whole point of walking to walk helped me, to a point that I now…
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Wider Than a Single Wish
The genie grants you a wish. What is it? Safety for all vulnerable people. That was not actually the first thing that came to mind. What came to mind was, “Save all infants that are sick.” But then I thought I had only one wish, so I’d have to be more broad with what I…
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All Eggs In One Basket
What are your favorite side-hustle ideas? I had many dreams, and I envied people who could put everything into one dream and become an expert in that area. I think that has changed for me. You become what you want. As soon as I saw what gave me the most curiosity, I realised that the…
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Nature Also Feels Like Home
What are five simple exercises to do at home? Planks that I have not done in the last four years, child’s pose that, again, I have not done in the last four years, weightlifting with 5–8 kg weights that can be purchased online, which, again, I do not own and have only lifted rice, like…
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Not The Glue
Which relationship has taught you the most about yourself? Friendships that faded with time taught me that I have grown and grown apart to the point that there is no point in holding on to some of them. To the point where it has opened my eyes to the friendships that you do not need…
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Strong You Say You Are
Why crying in your safe space matters? I pray it rains every time you are sad so the sun doesn’t take away your fear of feeling the feelings. You wrapped up each time in so many layers, you lost count of your own hiding places. This rain also has been hiding your sadness with no…
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Joy in Food Than Counting Calories
What are your best healthy eating habits? I try not to eat anything after 7 pm. Any fruit at 11 am, because our metabolism is at its peak function during that time.Since the new discovery that Indians consume more rice, dal and carbs than protein, I have made intentional, slow changes to have more protein.…
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Alone, Never Lonely
Are you really lonely when you are alone? Alone, never was lonely, and I say it lovingly. Crowds were enough to feel less alone, maybe not really, maybe a conversation with a single person was enough, not really maybe walking alone is what I needed. Not really comfortable, not really sad, not really happy but…
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Transformed Spark
Do You Still Have The Spark? Yes, I’d like to think I still have it. But a recent self-assessment says otherwise. I do not have the spark that I had as a child. I have a transformation of the spark. You see, I have changed into something I always hoped to turn into: a good…
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Do the Crime, Do the Time
Do you believe in karma? I thought I did, but I did not. I believed in justice. People should get some sort of punishment to learn to stop doing wrong things. Over time, if appropriate punishment is not given for minor wrongdoings like petty theft, humans have a tendency to do something more and not…
