Varun but Vaguely

  It had been a long day, Ronny has had it enough, he was pissed off, depressed, and feeling alone. The past 2 years he spent preparing for the all India scientists league but he got knocked out by 3 points in the entrance exam. All the sleepless nights, the painstaking notes, and the hope of all his friends and juniors were shattered. The visuals of their disappointment tormented him through the night. He was frustrated. He didn’t know what to do, he knew its not the end of his life neither that he was alone who fail in the entrance exam, many more of brilliant colleagues couldn’t get through it, his coaches too condoled him, “cheer up son! 1 exam is never enough to evaluate a student and 1 setback doesn’t mean you didn’t deserve it.” Said coach mike, one of the best guides to the exam, they both with many other students spent hours a day training and solving the most probable questions to be asked, as a teacher, he had faith in all of his students. Then came the selection perio...

  Life takes unexpected turns; the funny thing is it does not require your permission to it! Just imagine you’re in a cab and you want the driver to turn right and he ignoring you turns left, and you have relocated, in the end, you get fed up and leave the cab, guess what?! You can’t do that in life, by anyways getting off a running cab is suicide in both cases. Therefore, you don’t have a chance other than changing the destination. In such you look up to god and ask him why the hell you are doing this to me, I wanted to go somewhere else, I ended up somewhere else, the metaphorical version of” jana tha japan pahuch gaye chin samaj gaye na!” but life goes on you have to relocate several times. I’m in midst of  relocation too, I spent 2 years of my preparing for an m.pharm entrance test called GPAT. I was truly determined to live my life as a research scientist, looking for new drug candidates to change the course of humanity, give new life to patients all over the world. It ...

  Lockdown has been transformational, everyone I know has changed in some dimensions, whether its   fitness or wellness, the habits that have been formed and removed the entire addition and subtraction has been a positive-sum. Over the past few months I've become more meditative, read books on various topics, been exposed to a different set of minds and was able to create a blog. Overall the the journey has been excellent, the days that I have meditated multiple times a day and those experiences have been blissful . If someone asked   me what was the biggest lesson\change of the lockdown Id say it was the realization of compound effect. Compound the effect is when small changes everyday end up in huge sum results that were unexpected when the deed was initiated. You can get a glimpse of it by this eg. Suppose your lazy and want to lose weight , but consistency kills you, you cant stick to the process , you want to progress fast but you the work is too much, well, th...