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Strings of Happiness

I feel I am much happier and at peace with myself in my thirties (well early thirties!) than I was ever in my twenties and this is not because things around me are working miraculously in my favor. No that is not true at all. It is just because I have started thinking differently and that has helped me a lot. I always used to get good marks in school. Even in college and in my further education I had done extremely well in terms of getting good grades but there was so much I completely missed out on which I didn’t even realize till I was 23-24. While growing up there is so much emphasis given on “education” and yet as grownups, we are lost. No one teaches us about accepting failure and moving on, taking risks, dealing with trauma, dealing with political/judgmental/calculative people, adapting to change, dealing with competition, overcoming fear, handling stressful situations, adjusting to change, anxiety and actually many more such life skills.   Many people feel that y