A pensive 19 year old

  "Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results"      - Willie Nelson   I know with all these disruptions around the world, it is hard to stay positive and focused on your  everyday goal but not impossible. I hope this blog takes your mind off from the all the negativity around you and makes it easier for you to find positivity in yourself.  In order to stay positive and focused you need to control your mind and one of the best ways to control your mind is through meditation or yoga. During these testing times, one of the major drawbacks of our mind is overthinking and it causes anxiety, stress & loss of attention. Meditation is scientifically proven to help control these things and even fight addictions. Meditation is easy to perform and the only requirement is your mental presence. If you want to follow a routine Meditation process, this is the link for a 20 day meditation challenge conducted by the ...

"Education is not about molding children the way you think they should be. Education is about organizing the natural longing in a human being to know"        - SADHGURU Education, a process everyone has the right to enjoy. Education should be the activity of learning new skills, values and gaining knowledge but the education system and the society has made it more like a competition and a race. Sadhguru in one of his interviews in the London School of Economics was questioned on the part of competition in the modern day education and on the race of being the first in the class. He answered in the most sensible way possible as, "Being better than someone, if it's a pleasure for you, I call that sickness, it is not success". Competition is a subject that has divided opinion for years. Some argue that it encourages a child to excel in today's fiercely competitive world where we compete for everything be it a job, a partner or a house. Others say it can ...

"If having a soul means to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of human beings." - James Herriot Indeed this quote makes sense now, I am sure most of you would be aware by now of the very disheartening incident that took place in Kerala involving a pregnant elephant who ate a pineapple filled with firecrackers and I am also sure that most of you only half the picture of what actually happened there.   Here's the full story: On May 25, in the village of Palakkad, Kerala, a pregnant elephant came strolling into the village for food and ate a pineapple which had firecrackers filled in it. The fruit exploded in her mouth which broke her jaw. She then entered the Velliyar river in Malappuram, standing in the water for hours where she eventually died hours later, despite efforts to rescue her. The fruit was indeed planted by humans but it was not for the elephant, the pineapple was kept for the wild boars that come and destroy c...

INDIA AND CHINA BORDER TENSION 2020 " A true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him"       - G.K. Chesterton After destroying world economy and causing almost three months of worldwide lock down, China is back to being its own self just after things were beginning to settle down as tensions between the two most populous countries have flared again in the recent weeks. On May 5, 2020, China began to push along the Sino-Indian border and things have been pretty heated from there on. In addition, face-offs are ongoing at multiple locations in eastern Ladakh, along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) that has persisted from the 1962 Sino-Indian war. China pushing/crossing Indian borders is no new thing. Since the 1980s, there have been 20 rounds of talks between the two countries related to the border issues. The face-offs are taking place in two states , which are Ladakh and Sikkim. On May 9, do...

INDIA A country where culture unwraps itself in the best possible way. A country which is proud of it's rich and varied heritage. But things have not been good for India recently and maybe one of the major reasons for this is the Indian youth and young adults. Youth is the period between childhood and adult age. During this phase of the life, a human body goes through many changes developing desires, habits and etc etc. Youth in collective has lot of power. Not only do they have sense of reasoning but also the audacity to ask for answers. The youth of the country can be a key measure to the country's success but Indian youth have been distracted by various outside factors. The known future of the country are attracted to artificiality rather than realism. The youth of India indulges itself in gadgets, apps, games, materialism rather than indulging itself in relationships, knowledge, art. According to the data produced by the Global Business Coalition for Education (G...