How long do we have? How many weeks more? I read Oliver Burkeman’s 4000 weeks when it came out in 2021, during the pandemic. Yes, from the time we are born and if we were to live till 80 we will have lived a little over 4000 weeks. I turned fifty that year and found that I only had 1500 weeks left. 4000 felt less … Continue reading Our Limitedness
In 15 years lot has changed. I have grown much older. I did not have a single grey hair then and now I can easily count the black ones. 2010 was a year of total uncertainty, a time when I felt so stuck, unable to move forward. More professionally than personally, but the toll was personal. Our personal and professional lives are so intertwined and … Continue reading Living a Life
Rahi turns 18 today. He only looks 14 though. At the age of 53 I have been told that I look around 60. He has got his mom’s gene. Lucky him. When he was very young he once asked me “what should I be when I grow’… I thought for a while and answered ‘you should be happy when you grow’ Yes be happy. It … Continue reading Happy 18th Rahi
Today is Valentine’s day and I am travelling to India. There is a peer pressure when you are not travelling with your partner on Valentine’s day. There is an element of aloneness that is felt online and offline. How can he/she ? Was that intentional? What is happening between you two? Is he/she that insensitive.. or is it inconsideration..? Why why why… On top of … Continue reading Happy Valentine‘s Day
Kurt Gray’s Outraged is a must read for everyone today. It explores the important question “Why We Fight About Morality and Politics”. Whether you fight or not, I am sure this question would have come to your mind about the world we live in. Is there a common ground. A common ground where we can converse and understand. There is always, but we need to … Continue reading So Outraged !!
And then one day everything will come to an end. It could be good, it could be bad. It could be insignificant. But will come to an end. We don’t know of everything that ends. We just know they will. Same goes with people. Everyone will return to dust. No one will remember. Does that mean we should not do anything? Why do anything if … Continue reading Even if all ends tomorrow
I did not know about Dry January till about the 10th of Jan. That was not the intention. One 4th evening I decided that I should take a 30 day break from alcohol. A few days later someone asked if it was the dry January and that is when I started reading about it. Yesterday I completed the 30 days and I wanted to share … Continue reading My Dry January
Today nothing happened,Maybe today itself did not happenMaybe we are still in yesterdayWho knows we might even be in tomorrowMaybe we just skipped today without even knowing I have had days and weeks go byNot knowing where they went….Looking back I feel,Even the years have gone byWhat did I do…?How did I spend them..?What did I gain.. lose..? Time is such an interesting pieceI once … Continue reading Today’s Time – A Poem
Today was an interesting day. A day of learning. For me personally, a day for self awareness. We had a training session at work about emotional intelligence with author of the book ‘Born to Create’ Anne Jacoby. Emotional Intelligence has become a corner stone of a lot of things w have been working now. And this session could not have been at a better time. … Continue reading A Day on Emotional Intelligence
On November 27 last year, I decided that I will go to the Gym every single day. I did not decide how long I will spend there, I did not have a target for weight loss or any set goals. Just that I will go to the gym every day. It can either be my local Gym or the one at my office. The choice … Continue reading How we spend our days…
Vinod Narayan 