Strike a match above a sheet of paper and time becomes visible. Before the flame touches the page, one movement of the hand can prevent the damage. Once the corner catches, another kind of action becomes possible. Smother the flame. Tear away the burning edge. Save what remains. But after…
Category: Memoir & Life
Distilled life lessons covering every topic that covers human life and the state of human existence on this planet. Topics include grief, suffering, loss, death, life, enlightenment, peace, joy, love, and mindfulness.
Memoir & Life 
For Those Who Stayed Close
There are friends who belong to ordinary seasons. They come with laughter, with ease, with dinners, with bright plans made under a harmless sky. They are good gifts, and the heart should not despise them. Life needs the joy of simple companionship, the unguarded hour, the joke repeated until everyone…
Health & Longevity 
The Body Slowly Learns Hope
There is a strange mercy hidden inside our livingness. We suffer as if grief has carved its final name into us. We believe, in the first violence of loss, that what has happened has become a permanent country within the soul, a dark nation with fixed borders, a place from…
Memoir & Life 
The Strange Mercy of Growing Older: When the Body Declines but the Soul Expands
There is a strange mercy hidden inside the years. We are taught to fear aging as if it were only a slow subtraction. The body begins to spend what youth once scattered freely. The knees no longer rise with the same obedience. Sleep becomes lighter. Names arrive late, like hesitant…
Memoir & Life 
The People We Lose by Living
We begin life surrounded. Before we know our own name, others have already spoken it with hope. Hands lift us, feed us, wash us, carry us from room to room. We arrive into a world already occupied by faces bending over us. Mother. Father. Grandparents. Siblings. Neighbors. The first truth…
Love, Romance & Eroticism 
When Intensity Pretends to Be Destiny
There was a time when I believed that the depth of a feeling revealed the truth of it. If love struck with enough force, if longing rearranged the inner weather, if a face returned again and again in silence, if the heart suffered with a devotion it could not explain,…
Books & Literature 
Why I Write: Reading, Writing, and the Life I Want to Leave Behind
I have always believed that a writer’s life begins before the page. It begins in the listening. In the books carried through ordinary hours. In the sentence that arrives while walking, driving, exercising, waiting at an airport gate, sitting in a bus, standing between one life and the next. It…
Memoir & Life 
The Company We Keep Becomes the Life We Live
There are few mirrors as honest as friendship. Not the mirror of glass, which gives back only the surface. Not the mirror of reputation, which trembles with gossip and misunderstanding. Not even the mirror of our own thoughts, which can flatter, excuse, condemn, or deceive us depending on the hour….
Memoir & Life 
For Avik, on Your Hundredth Day | A Letter to Our Son
To our dearest Avik, Today, April 12, 2026, you are one hundred days old. That is such a small sentence for something that has felt so immense. A hundred days ago, you arrived before the world expected you, at thirty-three weeks, and nothing about your beginning was ordinary. The room…
Memoir & Life 
30 Lessons From Surviving My 30s
My thirties did not arrive like a promotion. They arrived like weather. I entered them with ambition, hunger, and the private conviction that life was about to finally reveal its pattern. I thought hard work would produce clarity. I thought intelligence would reduce suffering. I thought if I moved fast…
Memoir & Life 
When the Ordinary Turns Strange: Childhood Fear and the Uncanny
There are children for whom the world never arrives as a safe and given thing. It arrives already bent. Not visibly, perhaps. The house still has walls. The table is still set for dinner. Shoes wait by the door. Grown voices rise and fall in the next room. Morning comes….
Memoir & Life 
The Soul’s Refusal to Harden
There are nights when the sky appears almost cruel in its serenity. The stars burn with their ancient fire above the houses where children are born, above the roads where men betray one another, above hospital windows, prison yards, empty chapels, and fields still holding the memory of blood. They…
Memoir & Life 
People I Admire
The fall colors are taking over the New England region. There is beautiful fall foliage all around. So naturally, I thought it was a great day for reflection. What came to mind is who the people are I admire the most, and what I can learn from them and apply…
Memoir & Life 
The Wisdom of Doing: A Journey from Knowing to Understanding
“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.” — Chinese Proverb This ancient Chinese proverb distills a profound truth about human learning, wisdom, and transformation. In a single sentence, it maps the stages of engagement: passive reception, observational memory, and active participation. Each…
Memoir & Life 
From First Date to Forever: Celebrating 10 Years Together
My Neha, Today marks ten years since the beginning of our relationship. Back in January 2014, during the snowy MLK long weekend, we chose to begin our relationship with a scenic train ride through upstate New York. It was our first out-of-state trip together as a couple. Somewhere in that…
Memoir & Life 
The Greeks and the Birth of Western Philosophy
The Ancient Greeks believed that the best way to understand human nature is by using philosophy, which uses logic and reason to arrive at the truth. Philosophy dates back to ancient Greece before Christianity was even invented. Socrates was one of the first philosophers who used a method called ‘dialectic’…
Love, Romance & Eroticism 
Thoughts on Love: What is Love?
What is love? That is a question that has been posed to us thousands of times, and it is one that humans do not seem to be able to answer. I’m not sure if there’s an actual scientific definition for the word ‘love’ since its usage varies from person to…
Investing, Technology & the Future 
A Decade In Review: 2010-2019
If you are a millennial (like me), you would agree that the last 10 years were interesting and full of ups and downs. We started this decade at the tail end of one of the worst recessions (2008-2010). The economy then gradually started to recover in 2011 and since then…
Books & Literature 
Top 250 Books of All Time | Books I Have Loved
This is my personal list of the best books to make you wiser and a better thinker (and a writer, if you are into writing). But, most importantly each one of these books is life-changing and full of wisdom. By the way, these books span five continents, dozens of countries,…
Love, Romance & Eroticism 
Our Romantic Wedding Vows
I wrote my wedding vows and shared with my love and to-be-wife. I spoke it first at our wedding. While writing, I could feel my heart and a deep sense of love within but I could have never predicted how it will feel at the time of the wedding. To say the least, it…
Investing, Technology & the Future 
Outsourcing and Immigration: Human Labor as a Commodity
Anyone who is currently active in the workforce (any type of work) must have individually faced the growing impact of two related yet distinct global phenomena: Outsourcing and Immigration. In short: Outsourcing is: Capital —-> Cheap Labor Immigration is: Capital <—- Cheap Labor Outsourcing When capital (money) moves to a country…
Memoir & Life 
51 Hard Truths No One Tells You About Adult Life
In older ages, life forced people into adulthood early. War did it. Hunger did it. Labor did it. Loss did it. Responsibility did it. The world gave fewer illusions and demanded more quickly. Modern adulthood is stranger. You can legally drive, vote, drink, borrow money, move away, get hired, get…
Memoir & Life 
The Battle For Your Future, Freedom, and Life
Someone I know (through someone) got fired today. Over a *BS* reason for misspelling a name. We all know that’s just a veneer for the true underlying reason: workplace politics. “Workplace politics” is just a fancy phrase for “battle of egos.” No one wins in the battle of egos. This…
Memoir & Life 
Ideal Education System: The Future of Education
Everyone feels that the current education system is broken and outdated. Throughout the history, we have had several forms of educations. Before we talk about the future of education or an ideal education system, let’s first look at our history. In the ancient Greece city-states, for example, the purpose of education was to produce…
Memoir & Life 
There Will Be No Privacy In Future By 2050
Privacy is dead. Privacy has already lost the battle. There will be no privacy in the future. The future of instant media powered by Artificial Intelligence will make it impossible to hide your successes or failures. What do I mean? In this era of intelligent platforms, which knows a lot…
Memoir & Life 
Travel Is The Best Thing You Can Bring To The Table
Recently, I was having an interesting conversation with one of my team member at The Art of Travel. I think it is worth sharing here as well. One of the “best skill” that you can bring to any team or project is your “travel experiences.” The more you travel, the…
Memoir & Life 
I Hate Unfinished Business
Last year, this was the week when my brother told me that doctors are suspecting that Dad might have Cancer. He was not getting better and all other options were crossed. Doing a Biopsy was the last remaining test. This was hard for him and everyone. I suspected this through…
Memoir & Life 
To Feel Pain Is To Be Alive
Do what you need to do, do what you want to do. Anticipate pain. Without pain, you won’t last long under pressure. Pain is the jet fuel for inner motivation. People say pain is temporary, don’t give up. Don’t quit. BS. Pain is not temporary. Pain is intermittent. It should…
Memoir & Life 
Everyone Says It Can’t Be Done
How do you know if you will be successful? How can you tell if you will make it to the end of the tunnel? The answer is “you can’t!” The only thing you can do is to keep the faith and keep walking. You can only give your best. You can…
Memoir & Life 
Transformative Change Through Organic Inquiry
There are times in our lives when we all feel we’re on the top. But, there are also times when we slip down unknowingly. They are the high and low points of our life. Sometimes, I wonder why we need to experience these low points, when in fact; we know…
Memoir & Life 
A Day Without My Phone: A Transformative Experience
Today, I forgot to take my cell phone in the morning. And what happened is nothing short of a transformative experience. I woke up, got fresh, boiled water, made coffee with organic coconut oil, ate a banana and left for the work. Usually, my fiance and I drive to work…
Memoir & Life 
Life As A Research Project | Transpersonal Experiences In Ordinary Settings
What is the experience of being human – the one we wish to inquiry into, investigate, experiment with, or examine? We like to believe that we are living an ordinary life in an ordinary world, but are we really living an ordinary life? Examining our life under a “transpersonal lens” may be…
