Writeia

 You gotta keep hammering the stuff, the day you're out of the loop, you might as well be out of the game. That's  how we play it, we play it close to the minute, even the second. That is how we choose to live. But what is that all about, I barely understand. I am trying my best to play the game by the day, by the minute, but as soon as I close in to something, it blows into something entirely different. How can you catch something that isn't. Right now, I'm hoping for a good word, a good emotion, a good response from the people I did not care about a month ago. That is how it runs, something that was is already a matter of the past that you keep on clinging to, something that never would have been has become what you think about all the time. That is how we are built, well atleast me. I can't say about everyone, I get a feeling that I can but as soon as the words pour out, all I can write about is me. Right now, I'm having the time of my life writing down whate...

Comparison is the thief of joy. At least, that's how it has been for most of my life. If you knew my folks, you'd understand—growing up, it was always about who scored better in exams: me or my friends. This instilled in me the belief that I had to compete and compare myself with others to earn the love I deserved. It's not their fault; I was their first child, and many other parents in our society acted the same way. But this constant comparison of everything you do and have with someone else stifles your satisfaction. What years of reading self-help books and incredible fiction has taught me is that even the great people who led the world were once trapped in this same mindset. So what changed for them? Most of them started competing with themselves—comparing who they were yesterday with who they are today, and with who they want to become tomorrow. This is one powerful way to transform your life, and I am working on putting it into practice. I still catch myself comparin...