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The author shares their experience with food aversion and weight loss during the first trimester of pregnancy, initially causing anxiety. They discovered that this weight loss is often normal, as the baby prioritizes nutrients from the mother. With time, appetite improves, and weight gain typically resumes, highlighting the body's resilience.
The author reflects on their seven-year experience as a teacher, emphasizing that it was unplanned and often frustrating. They struggle to balance their productivity-oriented nature with teaching's demands. Despite respect for their own teachers and the rewarding social life, they feel drained by the education system's overwhelming challenges and diminishing passion.
Isn’t it amazing how sometimes the sun dawns upon every façade and makes it see-through. Sooner or later, every human being resorts to his/her natural form, and if not, others will still starting seeing through. What you really are can never be hidden for too long. I have always felt like authenticity is the greatest... Continue Reading →
[I feel the need to add a little disclaimer – the thought originated somewhere and led to a place that believers might connect to disbelievers might as well find funny. So this is quite subjective.] I went to town through a thunder-rain on a mild medical emergency. Where I live is a temple town in... Continue Reading →
I wonder if existential questions are as common as I think they are. I don’t mean the depressing ones – just the ones that make us truly ponder over the point of anything we do in life. Sometimes they hit me so hard that pretty much everything feels pointless in the bigger context. What, after... Continue Reading →
I realize that most journal entries I make here are sad ones. I don’t publish the happy ones because mostly they feel like blowing my own trumpet; but more importantly there isn’t much soul-searching content there. As much as I wish that the soul searching, healing and re-inventing happens on the happier plane of life,... Continue Reading →
Its one of those times when my faith is tested to its limits, again. There’s a line in one of my favourite devotional songs from Bollywood that goes ‘Bhakti ko shakti do’, which means ‘give power to devotion’. It implies that if we pray hard enough, that could be our superpower. I have believed firmly... Continue Reading →
For the first time ever today, I felt like there’s a dangerous cache of unresolved anger within me that could surface at the most inconvenient time and make things difficult for myself. I’m usually one of those overly positive people – attempting to see the best in every situation, romanticising the littlest experiences, finding memories... Continue Reading →
With a lot of gratitude to offer, I inch closer to a new year looking forward to many good things incoming. What’s worth sharing here, however, is the battle with self-sabotage that I am still overcoming, but have made considerable progress with in 2023. A therapist would tell me a number of things about why... Continue Reading →
I assume that one of the hardest life skills to master for anyone is to not have expectations from others, especially when you’re someone who naturally makes a lot of effort to make things happen for someone you love. The motivational speakers and spiritual gurus on Youtube make it sound rather easy and glorious to... Continue Reading →