Reflections
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Shedding Leaves: Letting Go for Growth
Trees shed leaves in winter not as a loss but as preparation. Each falling leaf represents a choice: release what is no longer needed to conserve energy for future growth. This simple act carries a profound lesson for humans. We too carry unnecessary weight—old habits, toxic routines, unresolved fears, and limiting beliefs. Winter is a Continue reading
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Tragedy is a Crossroads
It is often said that great tragedies are the breeding ground of great people. At first glance, the statement feels harsh, even uncomfortable—as though pain were being celebrated. But history and lived experience suggest something more nuanced. Tragedy, by itself, creates nothing noble. It wounds, fractures, and diminishes. What tragedy does offer, however, is exposure—it Continue reading
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Drive Through Endless Roads: A Journey Through Space and Time
There is a particular freedom in driving along endless roads—the horizon stretching indefinitely, the asphalt weaving through forests, plains, and mountains, carrying you through landscapes both familiar and strange. The wheel in your hands becomes a compass not just for direction, but for the journey within. As the car moves, so do our thoughts. Time Continue reading
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When the Forest Shaped Me
There was a phase in my early adulthood when much of my life unfolded in forests. By profession, I was there to survey frogs—walking streams at night, listening carefully to calls that rose from the dark. But beyond the work, I found myself wandering deeper into the forest, lingering on quiet trails, allowing it to Continue reading
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A Bridge Between Science and Feeling
I often think about where science ends and feeling begins—if it does at all. Science asks for structure: measurements, names, carefully recorded facts. Feeling arrives differently—through silence, through dusk, through the way a forest changes its voice before rain. For a long time, I believed these two belonged to separate worlds. Time in the field Continue reading
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How a Random Thought Becomes a Song
Sometimes a thought appears out of nowhere—soft, fleeting, almost forgettable. But when you pause and hold it gently, it transforms. A random feeling becomes a single beautiful line, a line that suddenly carries more weight than you expected. Soon, that line attracts memories, emotions, and rhythm. It finds companions. A stanza forms—not because you forced Continue reading
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When a Song Reminds You What Lives On
Yesterday, as I was returning from my professor’s funeral, the world felt unusually heavy. Grief has a strange way of slowing everything down, softening the edges of reality until all you’re left with is a quiet ache. The entire journey back, I sat in silence—still trying to accept the truth that I would never meet Continue reading
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The Last Month Begins: A Quiet Call to Reimagine the Coming Year
The beginning of the last month of the year carries a peculiar hush—a moment suspended between reflection and anticipation. December always feels like a gentle reminder that time is both fleeting and full of possibilities. It asks us to pause, look back at the road we’ve travelled, and then look ahead at the one waiting Continue reading
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Beyond the Curve
There are roads we take because they are familiar, predictable, and safe. And then there are roads—silent, winding, disappearing gently behind a bend—inviting us into the unknown. They ask nothing of us except courage. They promise nothing except possibility. However, beyond such curve also exists out fears. Fear often dictates the course of our lives Continue reading
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The only Joy we can Store
We often use the words pleasure, happiness, and fulfilment as if they belong to the same family of emotions. But they are not siblings. They are more like distant relatives—occasionally meeting, occasionally overlapping, but each carrying a very different temperament. Pleasure: The Flash of Ecstasy Pleasure is intense, intoxicating, and unmistakably temporary. It arrives like Continue reading
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