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Tag: happiness
I’ve Spent Years Studying Happiness – Here’s What Actually Makes for a Happier Life
What I’ve learned on the journey to happiness.
Stop Dissing Pessimism — It’s Part of Being Human
Pessimism, as explored by the philosopher Schopenhauer, offers tools to come to terms with the idea that refusing to relentlessly pursue happiness is perhaps the most reasonable attitude.
My Yellow-Eyed Friends
A poem on the author's avian friends and how their amusing antics lighten her up.
To Be Human Today
'We may have risen through innovation, but have yet to solve the quest for happiness.'
Dispatch From Kashmir: A Letter to My Newborn Daughter
'Life here is hung in uncertainty between two extremes. I don’t exactly know where I belong and whether what I have chosen is right or wrong.'
To a ‘Happy’ New Year
What we do not realise is how we are part of a continuum, and how happiness, the way it appears before us, is far more a constructed idea than …
My Secret Life: Indian Parents, Pride Parade and Troublesome Lies
How I realised I have been protesting all this while – within the closed quarters of my home.
Questions Unanswered
I can now see all the questions rushing back. All the ones I tried to push away.
The Silent Death of My Friendship With My Best Friend
When relationships have no closure or definite reason for their ending, moving on becomes difficult as you start doubting yourself.