What makes you different?

Until the day I choose to listen to myself. I let my subconscious go wherever it wanted me to go. It was not just in dreams I wanted to live, but in real life. Not allowing others to cloud my personality, my ability, my inclination towards philosophy, knack to motivate others, and my indifference towards others’ opinions.

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde

Don’t get a partner because you’re jealous of your friends.

What did Rama tell Sita about Kaliyug?

Honestly, there’s nothing that makes ‘me’ different.

Tried everything. A well-paying corporate job, govt. exams. Nothing provided me with security. I didn’t have time to myself. Hustling was my name. Didn’t go to parties, travel or anything. Didn’t talk to friends.

You can be fearful and still use it to tame your weaknesses and build your emotional strength.

How did you as a human being change while growing up?

Not ignoring emotions because they can be destructive. Not underestimating your aspirations because society calls them second-rate.

Being different is being a weirdo. And being okay about it.

Consider a rat who never came out of the hole fearing for his life. He stayed in the dark for years and died one day, unbeknownst.

Is it possible to permanently quit pornography?

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” - Lao Tzu

So, keep on experimenting.

Can you make it?

Why don’t people want the American Dream anymore - marriage, kids, a dog, and the white picket fence?

Otherwise, thank you for reading. It was fun writing to you all. Hope it helped you in more ways than one.

Experiences: What has happened to me? Have I led a normal life with two parents and two siblings? Yes. Breakups I’ve had. Friends I’ve made. School I have attended. Guides I’ve met. Places I’ve been.

What if he’d come outside?

What do you think of a parent telling their adult child to “keep their personal life to themselves” in relation to talking to them? No reason they should say that it was mean what should I do?

Become different not according to the world, but according to what you like and what you don’t.

You know how all of this enlightenment came to me.

I am an ordinary human being with the same body structure as you who are reading, you and I have the same material of what our bodies and brains are made up of.

Why do Trump supporters believe Trump should deport the immigrants? These people you call "illegal immigrants" have lived here for many years, they have houses, jobs, how can you think they will just go back to their country, where they have nothing?

I know being a writer is no different. But my journey is different. Its unique to me.

Yes, I was not at all happy.

He would have experienced the miracle called light. Maybe he got better food to eat. Then he got wounded. Then in search of balm, he travaled to the wilderness and found a party of rats, eaten to its heart’s content and danced the night out.

What does it mean if someone asks if it’s pink?

So, what actually makes us all different?

Everything has shaped me. Friends who gave me their pens and journals. Best friends I never made. Crush that made me write poems while he didn’t care. Romances I’ve missed. Opportunity to become an editor or a news correspondent I missed. I think all this has made me the writer I am.

I experimented. A lot. And now I know I don't need more trials of this kind. I’m writing this today at just the right place from the comfort of my home while it rains outside. While a cold breeze rings music to my senses.

What is the scariest thing that ever happened in your life?

Even if that means disappointing your parents and teachers for some time, but believe you’ll eventually make them feel proud.

Experiments: My life has been a group of experiments that failed to take off until I resorted to writing.

"Life is a journey, not a destination. Enjoy the ride." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m a 25 year old teacher teaching at boys school & I have colleagues younger than me. I caught one of my students telling her he wanted her as his teacher instead & it hurt my feelings. They compliment her a lot. It makes me jealous. What do I do?

I always yearned to go for government jobs because I had a few relatives already into it and doing well with money and security. And here is me, with an arts background, uncertain about what to choose.

P.S. What’s your idea of being different? Do you have a different point of view?

All of it would have been different, and this life would mean something, at least for him.

Are democrats inherently stupid or just lazy? They can Google " Ohio is investigating reports by residents that migrants are eating the local wildlife " why can't they seem to do the most simple things? Blind, ignorant, stupid or obtuse?

To take out these experiments, accept the asymmetry of your emotions, your eccentricities, aspirations and thoughts for what they actually are. Instead of filtering it through the social system, recognize the difference and apply it in your life.

Anxious to get a job, I chose to do what was socially recommended for me. So, I tried. Being a govt. servant. Failed. A Research Scholar. Didn’t make it. A Professor. Guess what?

Long story short, here I am. Being a writer. Doing things I’d always love to do. Sharing my experiences of what I learnt.

Can you give an example of a documentary where the person telling the story believed it to be true, but it turned out to be false?

If you’ve read this far, let me tell you one more thing.

Indeed, a number of other factors contribute to your uniqueness, but that’s for you to introspect.

I have always wanted to write things. Wrote poetry during my grad and reluctantly left it for preparation of a govt. exam because who’s got extra time for it.

Do anything and everything because you like it. You love it. Do the things that make you go crazy. Things you’d barter your breath for. Things that make your life a rainbow.

Take my word. You won’t regret it.

Without experiments, is life worth it.

Neither I’m Tesla, who got poor grades in school, nor I’ve grown to invent electric current that powers many electronic devices today. Nor I’m an entrepreneur who is the idea behind the Tesla cars.

Not because people show it off and you have to follow the lead.

Don’t drink because everybody does today.

Don’t choose to be an engineer just because it pays well.

What makes you YOU.

A govt. job could do it for me. Plus Money, plus security, plus prestige.

C’mon, it’s an opportunity to break the rules, stand out and become ONE of a kind.

Agree?

Don’t go to the gym because it’s a fitness fad.

Being different is being a mess, yet being okay with it.

Being different is being okay with failure, so you know what the dessert of a win tastes like.