Blissful Life

When you apply skepticism and care in equal amounts, you get bliss.

Category: Opinion

  • Proactive Change

    There are 3 kinds of people. Let’s call them versions 1, 2 and 3. Version 1: won’t change These are the people who hold on to their pasts. Once they are labeled something, based on something that they did or something that they told; they tend to retain that feature forever. Change is not a…

  • Complaining about Rape

    All you idiots out there who want to castrate the guys who molested the girl in Guwahati, your anger is misdirected. It’s not their fault, it is not the girl’s fault, it’s your fault that your society has problems regarding sexuality. And that’s because you fail to talk about it. You consistently fail. And you…

  • Are your parents the best?

    I believe vehemently that our character, intelligence, everything depends on nurture, rather than nature.Whatever you do, however you respond in a given situation will have something or the other to do with what your parents/teachers/friends/books/culture/family/siblings/environment taught you at some point in your life. And then comes the question. Do you have the best parents? Did…

  • What do you perceive as reality?

    Just saw Shutter Island, and I should tell you it's the most amazing take on memories and how they define reality and what neuropsychiatry is all about and omg, what not! SPOILER WARNING: If you've not seen the movie, and are planning to, then don't read ahead. So, here's where it all matches what ideas…

  • Attempting to Solve the Hard Probelm of Consciousness

    I remember asking one of my computer science friends a few months ago when he was coding a small game “When your program plays the game, does it actually know the rules, or does it just act as per your algorithms as to how to proceed at each imaginable point that comes up during the…

  • The Only Way to Win The Mind

    There is something special about a medical college hostel. You wake up in the middle of the night and walk through the corridor to the loo, whatever be the time, you’ll see one or the other guy awake, under the lamp with his textbook. Hard work might be the secret to success. But in medical…

  • Nobody is the King

    Had occasions when you wonder what you should do and what you should not? Ever felt out of the group in a party/dinner/function? Had to ask/listen to somebody’s lecture on friend/couple/family/stranger manners? Not any more. Wherever you go, whatever you do, there is only one rule you should know – “be comfortable”. And that refers…

  • 2011: The Year of Conversions

    “2011 is the only year I studied both in a school and a college.” ~SMS forward January – Started studying seriously for entrance examinations. Carefree to careful. February – Turned 18. Minor to major. March – 12th standard board exam is over. End of English as a subject. June – All exams done. Time to…

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