Reflections on my OS – Part 1
Stoicism, and the reading I do, has made me focus more on the self. No, not being selfish, but trying to get a. better sense of why I am the way I am. A book I read recently – Behave – gave me a good starting point.
Stoicism, and the reading I do, has made me focus more on the self. No, not being selfish, but trying to get a. better sense of why I am the way I am. A book I read recently – Behave – gave me a good starting point.
A few months ago, when I wrote Hope Trope during what on hindsight seems like a particularly low phase of my mind’s wax and wane cycles, a relative wrote to me. She said the post almost made her cry, and as a person who has been reading my posts for a while, she felt that my […]
After I shared the “We, the storytellers” post on Twitter, Surekha sparked off this interesting discussion on how we could persuade others to be less judgmental and more compassionate. I really didn’t have a fix-it-all answer and felt that it was more important that we simply practice this ourselves. That, however, did not stop me from thinking […]
In TDKR, there is an interesting conversation between John Blake and Bruce Wayne, during which the former says that he knows Bruce is the Batman. He then talks of how he does not remember his mother’s death, but remembers his father’s murder well, and that the anger stayed with him. People understand, he says, but […]
The last few episodes of Masterchef Australia Season 2, especially after it came down to the final four, were quite awesome. For me, it went beyond the cooking or even the amazing camaraderie between the participants and the judges. The final two turned out to be Adam and Callum, separated in age by more than […]