The Unabridged Version of a Rational Emotional Mind

I went on my first-ever work trip this month. Keeping the joys of newfound independence aside, I discovered something! So every day for the complimentary breakfast at the hotel I stayed in, sambar was served. Mind you they put extra ghee in their sambar and somehow, I love it!  But that's not the point of this blog today. On day 2 of eating the same sambar on the menu, I realized it was spicier. Day 3...it was tangier. And that's when it hit me...Our life is like sambar!  Each of us has a specific variation of vegetables, spices, water, and lentils in our sambar, i.e. life that we get to enjoy each day. Let's say, the water is the environment we are born in...our culture, family values, etc. The lentils are our specific variation of genes, the 'nature' part of our upbringing. The vegetables are our unique experiences, the schools and colleges we went to, the friends we made, and the jobs we do. Now here comes the most interesting part, everything I mentioned thus fa...

Two months from now, I will be one step closer to my quintessential quarter life crisis. Although life at present seems to be at a good place, I can not help but wonder where my life is going...neither can the people around me! As someone about to cross their early 20s, adulthood and adult-like situations seem to be the norm. I can no longer claim to be unaware or unprepared for life's inevitable challenges. The biggest challenge of them all is change. Not a uniformly paced, one size fits all type of change, but change that feels like seasons, only that every one is going through a different one. I see people my age getting married, moving miles away from family, buying their own homes, having children. And here I am, barely making it through each day of my new job. And no no, this is not a cry for help. This is an acknowledgment of reality that everyone's clock runs different. I am yet to find what my career needs to look like. Some of us are getting ready to get married. Some...