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Difficult Roads Often Lead To Beautiful Destinations

Ishika — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:53:16 +0000

Isn’t it true?

What you want to be tomorrow, you got to do today.

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Feeling low, just because of no specific reason? Is All You Fear Uncertainty?

Ishika — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:29:48 +0000

Reasons are not required to be scared!

Is All We Fear Uncertainty?

Yesterday, as I was about to bed, I was pinged by a person. He epistled me, just a short paragraph, composed of a single sentence.

‘I don’t know why, but I am sulk, scared and feeling beside myself.’

On being forced upon a conversation, he admitted he feared nothing but uncertainty.

But was he the only one who feared it?

It took me a while, to decide what to inscribe in the reply. Because, this was the very knot that worried even me, more than often. And I am sure, each one us, at some point of time, would have got scared and felt lonely and out of sight. So, how can I help someone with a problem, I myself am yet to get to the bottom of?

I was feeling helpless.

Scribbling Down the Uncertain

Then, I began jotting all the uncertain things in my life, to be able to make up an answer.

‘Whether I will wake up tomorrow, and will be able to see another morning is an uncertainty, for sure.

If the amount of sugar, in the cup of tea, that my brother just handed me over, would be apt or not, is another doubt.

Or perchance, he might have forgotten to add the sugar, altogether.

If the WiFi would work without frequent disruptions for the next few hours, is chancy and incalculable.

Whether the person I love shall always be my side, is iffy and in the lap of Gods.

If I will clear the next exam, that I will take, is inconstant.

Etcetera …’

The list seemed to be unending.

All I could conclude was that even certainty in real life is an uncertainty.

So, What’s the Band-Aid for This Misgiving

We have two options, as always, at this fork in our life.

Either to continue fearing the uncertainty or another, the extraordinary one, to accept it.

Accepting the Uncertainty

What you should do with this self-willed thing called Uncertainty is this,

Embrace it.

And live with the iffiness that it brings.

Believe me, this is the only way out.

And to anyone who has ever lived the literal meaning of the word ‘life’, the fact that unplanned day outs are wonderful and far far better than the planned evenings, need not be detailed. Isn’t it amazing to know, that your every day to come, invariably, won’t be monotone or preplanned? Every day will be a new and a different one. Not an hour to come would go as you imagined it to.

The plans, the days that pick up the threads and knit up on their own, that are sudden, on-the-spot and uncertain, would be the most awe-inspiring.

And as has been opportunely quoted,

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all the events are blessings given to us to learn from.

~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If you don’t think your anxiety, depression, sadness and stress impact your physical health, think again. All of these emotions trigger chemical reactions in your body, which can lead to inflammation and a weakened immune system. Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days.

~Kris Carr

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

~Helen Keller

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

~ Paulo Coello

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IF YOU GIVE A FCK ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS, YOU END UP BEING FCKED UP! ~ MARK MANSON

Ishika — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:01:16 +0000

If you give a fuck about lot of things, you end up being fucked up!

~Mark Manson

Life

What does it really mean?

I have spent the last few months, summing up to almost a year and a half fussing about landing at a definition of this overrated yet ordinary word “life”.

I started from high rated definitions like being unique, extraordinary, odd one out, the best, the different one, the … and standing out of the crowd to do something crazy, that you may call your dream work, that will end you up in Mercedes or.. Harley Davidson and will result in increasing the budget of your vacations from a low simple vacation to a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious one, is life.

And yeah, I learnt the spelling of this long word for a month, thinking to leave a remark and, you know, be an odd one out.

But at last, what actually helped me find the true definition of life, and a not so highly rated one, is the fact that there isn’t any definition at all. What you live, with pain and struggles, is life. As simple as it is. And not in the least are you supposed to be odd to appreciate it!

You are an ordinary, simple and usual man like anyone else in this world with a heavy baggage of stupidity in your head and more problems than hours in a day!

And this is life.

Accepting that you are negative at times, your life sucks more often than not, things go wrong more easily with you than going right, while the world seems to be sitting at a luxury sofa and having pancakes and … And it is okay. Because this is how it is. Accept it.

Acceptance is life.

Standing in between the crowd and accepting that you are alike, and no different than all around you except the different diet plans and a difference in timings of the arrival of the same-same kind of problems. That’s it.

Till date, I was literally searching topics about which I should blog on. Searching from every source I could. And then, after a lot of searches, landed on the fact that not a lot of people, like me, are motivated and thus require motivation, so I began reading motivational novels, books, autobiographies… Not to learn from them but just to do something to tell aloud that I was extraordinary. I used to read around 500 to 1000 pages and go through an hour or so of some related videos to be able to produce a blog that suits the readers, more than it suits me!

Ishika (I) had been a good writer since my schooldays, and actually loved writing, especially in the poetic sense, but the fear that at the international level I may fail in becoming an appraised blogger, I comprised my thoughts. I deliberately put myself to so much stress and reading and messy schedules, just to have a life that can be dictated through my blogs and can receive appreciation, while actually negotiating the sense of living all at once. Concerning myself with everything and everyone I actually started accepting that I am already a failure without even trying to try and, ending up depressed and visiting a psychiatrist a couple of months ago!

This is where all that running behind the pre-requisite motivation and extraordinary life landed me.

I spent the next whole month almost 2000 miles away from my place with people from all over the world, and almost all different continents and cultures.

I read self-help books.

Luckily enough, then there was this book, I came across.

The book that I thought of re-reading while I wasn’t even half-a-way across its pages. I read it once, twice…

and this book, by Mark Manson, gave me a worthy counterexample to the high rated definition of life, and upskilled me to a better one as per which accepting the ordinary and bringing a pause to the race for perfection, happiness and comfort, and to stop losing sleep over every other thing through his book, ‘The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck’.

And then I wrote this blog, the third blog that I wrote without pre-requisite motivation or stress or planning… I just wrote it in the middle of my sleep. I wrote it when I was tired and ready to bed at nighty nine and suddenly felt the thirst to write since I hadn’t written a word back a long while, busy with my life-hunt. And I wrote this note!

I think I will write a lot now. And you must follow. Because now I don’t really care if what I write really makes sense, or is decorated with heavy phrases or not , or will make me famous or not …

I have just learnt this new way of accepting the things and then trying to work on them. It really works.

And giving you a taste of my mathematical ground, the equation of life supports some real paradoxes, like the Russell’s paradox, I must add.

A case in point : when I stopped craving for comfort, I became a little comfortable.

A lot more to add, but I hope you got the point?

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Live It Like This !

Ishika — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 11:39:42 +0000

If Life Fascinates You …

And you do live or wanna live it like this …

Travel

If you are a backpacker, a globetrotter, a leisure traveller, a pathfinder, a roadie, a rover, a sightseer or simply you just love to travel then…

For people who candidly love to travel can understand the immense pleasure that accompanies. Footslogging on the sedgy passes that leads to hilltops, rills, scenic valleys and other adventurous destinations can give a kick no feeling can substitute.

Hiking through thrilling and stimulating disembarkations will surely leave you in awe. If you don’t wait for a weekend to trip an excursion and if taking ‘risks’ is the noun that ranks top in your dictionary,

then, …

Yummy

If being a foodie is your quality or eating a hobby, then…

The sensation of flavour perceived in the mouth and throat on contact with a Delicious delicacy can absolutely cause anyone’s mouth to water. But if you can’t keep yourself from exploring yummy and appetizing cuisines, then …

Music

If your hands and toes also hum when the music is on, then…

It has been believed since long, by those who practise music, that notes and tunes have healing powers. But, even those who just rock-n-hop to the beats, or lend an ear to the music at rare events or occasionally can endure its therapeutic and soothing effects.

It has the alphabets that hum and rhyme. As quoted aptly,

” When words fail, music speaks!” ~Hans Christian Andersen

These alphabets of music take you to a world that connects your imagination to reality. And if you too feel the emotion of the music, …

Passion

If your dream is the only thing you can’t stop thinking about despite unalike-colours of life, then…

Success Story

If life stories or stories from the lives of un-alike people fascinate you …

… that’s it. This is the correct page you have landed on!

Life is but a journey. Probably the longest of all the other journeys we have ever been through. If you are a daredevil, say yes to every upcoming random adventure in this journey. Howsoever heebie-jeebies each episode of this journey might give you, you’re allowed to scream, you’re allowed to cry, but not to quit ;

Put your heart, mind and soul in every little act of your life, and live a life out of the box.

Remember that,” a ship is always safe at the shore but that isn’t what it is built for!” So take chances, face risks, and sail across the dangerous waters akin to a ship.

Design your path, choose your direction and lay the bricks. Make your passion your destination. Find the job or line that engages you the most. Then simply pen your own definition of success.

At the same time don’t fail to remember that there isn’t an elevator to success. You have to take the dilapidated, time-worn stairs. And if you have finally built a map to a walkaway and are tracing your steps on the map, do it with passion or don’t do it at all ;