Thoughts

The morning. The morning. The morning. Without a doubt, morning is the most important time of the day. It sets the direction, either gently or chaotically. Most days, I don’t use my phone after waking up. But today was different. After socializing the previous night, I reached for my phone in the morning. And I felt it immediately. Scrolling turned into indulgence. Instagram turned into images. Images turned into restlessness. Lust crept in. Not acted upon, but stimulated. And that stimulation left a residue. The more we indulge, the harder it becomes to come out of it. That’s why I believe in minimal indulgence. Phones don’t just waste time. They leak energy. Phones, Stimulation, and the Cost of Indulgence There’s a subtle chain reaction that’s easy to miss. Phone leads to lust. Lust leads to anger. Anger leads to greed. Greed leads to inner destruction. Once you lose your inner ground, everything becomes shaky. The phone creates a parallel world. A world built on assumptions, project...

 Yesterday confirmed something I have been sensing for a while: video entertainment is not healthy for me. I was watching Tanmay Bhatt, KV, even kvizzing content, and while it may look intellectually harmless, I noticed something subtle but important. After it ended, my mind felt affected by the external world. A kind of residue remained. Yes, I wasted time. But what followed that storm was interesting: the silence. And that silence was beautiful. The noise slowly disappeared. The mind settled. It made me think that perhaps our brain is fundamentally wired for silence. Our ancestors didn’t consume the world the way we do. Video entertainment, in the form we know it, is barely a hundred years old. Books, on the other hand, have existed for thousands of years. That alone tells us something important. Reading is aligned with how humans have historically absorbed knowledge, while video is an evolutionary mismatch. Too fast, too stimulating, too external. I strongly believe that structu...

A day that started with Kvizzing with all stars. I usually don't think entertainment is a good option for morning time. But well, it happens. Trying out new things in morning gives us a way on what not to do. Although kvizzing is a good show, but it's not something you should watch in the morning. Yesterday, on the other hand, what I felt was after a productive day, like I went to the gym, I did certain exercises, I wrote a blog, I felt good about it. Recently, I found the joy of reading. Moreover, watching video entertainment like Kvizzing is not bad, as it exposes you to the ideas of certain books like the great Gatsby and just in general the idea about the world. My question is how much of our day should be reading or video entertainment and what part of the day should suit the best for each of these activities? Are we Tanmay Bhatt or Gaurav Kapoor, I think it's their profession to be a comedian. Our profession is something else. They do their work, the earn their money ...

Yesterday, I was watching Australia Vs England the ashes series that is going on. It was an interesting contest. Australia scored 152 in the first innings followed by a 110 of England. It looked like no matter how badly Australia plays, England was there saying, we can play even worse. I thought 152 is literally nothing in terms of score. The next thing that happened, Australia came out to bad, scored a 132 all out. Wow. Now that means there was something in the pitch. It was a tough job to bat on the wicket. 174 would not be an easy score to chase. That was the actual moment I started watching the game. England's second innings, and the match's 4th innings was the point I was watching the game.  The commentators were saying the Australian's were disciplined and patient about the game. They did not chase after wickets and hence they got the wickets. Now this was a time, the game just had 174 on the board, and the Australians were desperate in search of a wicket. I know the ...

India vs Pakistan at any level carries more than runs and wickets, it carries history, pressure, and emotion. The recent Under‑19 match was painful not only because Pakistan won comprehensively, but because the Indian side seemed to lose something more important, composure. Talent was visible, but  talent without discipline  cost the game. What Went Wrong on the Field The defeat felt less like a tactical failure and more like an emotional one. When a team is already behind, doubling down on aggression becomes reactivity, not strategy. Reactivity disguised as aggression leads to poor shot selection, sloppy bowling, and a breakdown in basic discipline, line, length, and patience. Aggression versus discipline : Aggression is a tool, discipline is the hand that guides it. Human opponents : Rivalry can inflame emotions, but opponents remain human and make mistakes you can exploit only if you stay calm. A Personal Moment and the Lesson It Holds I experienced a personal lapse recent...

Those days to new days I can romanticise about those good old days, but well, we are trying to talk about good new days out here.  Hello World ! Well that's the first program I had written during my teens. I was just writing code for the fun of it. There was also an element  of competitiveness to it. I wanted to pass an exam with great marks. Oh of course better than my next door neighbour haha ! The teacher was annoyed that even though I did not attend any lectures, I somehow did well during the exam. It was just me having a good support network of people who knew computers better than I did. But well, all encompassing, I did write code during the time when there were no instagram reels or shorts.  Today's generation on the other hand is too occupied with reels and shorts. I wanted to discuss just that.  Instagram reels, Youtube shorts The topic I am going to discuss today is more of the context switching of YouTube and instagram. Isn't it too much. Today the kids w...

Dear Reader, thank you for sticking through the year 2025. We are almost heading towards 2026, but I thought an important thing that I want to tell you about was breathing exercises. Just like how we exercise our body, our mind needs to be exercised as well. While reading is one exercise for the mind. Writing is other. Breathing is the third one.  Without wasting too much time, let's dive right in.  Box breathing: 4-4-4-4 (Morning) This is an exercise where you inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 4, then exhale for 4, then hold for 4. What this brings in you is tremendous amount of control over yourself and your body. I truly believe grounding yourself for such a period is a really difficult task, but when you really ground yourself, you start noticing the benefits.  Now the question is that when you want to feel in control, that's where you do the exercise.  Slows breathing, stimulates the vagus nerve, lowers heart rate and blood pressure, and improves focus and emotiona...