The Exuberant Realist

In the undying spirit of trying to appease people around us, often times, we neglect ourselves. We strive to be at our best to impress others and, in reality; life doesn’t require that we be the best, rather just to be our truest selves. Just stop for a few seconds and ponder on how many times you have done something for yourselves without feeling guilty. Try to recall the number of things you have let go just because someone else doesn’t approve of it. “Ewww”, “You use that?”, “What’s wrong with you”, “Yikes!” and many of such remarks that made you question your habits and life choices. People.. Human beings.. Us!! We just have everything under and above the Sun to condemn and disagree upon. Freedom of speech, we say. What a joke?! Some of us just don’t seem to realise that not all situations or phenomenon need our opinion. To the ones that are at the receiving end, please be reminded that many passersby will come across us and try to feed us with their snide commentaries; th...

Time and time again, the human mind never fails to allure me. It intrigues me how easily influenced our mind can be. Pessimistic influences from our peers are understandable at times; but we ourselves beguiling it? To say, "That's  beyond my understanding", is an understatement! More than that, it is surprisingly shocking to fathom how self-centred people have nurtured into. People are too beauty conscious and are always in pressure that society imposes. They let others define their beauty and this phenomenon, little by little, embeds into their subconscious mind. The way they look physically is never satisfying and, in turn, they gravitate to wanting more. A self-created image forms in the mind and they consistently keep comparing themselves to it. Flaws are the only trait that they see and calories are the only maths that they mastered in! Well, weighing scales, on the other hand, are the most dreaded equipment. Every time they stood in front of a mirror, they...