Hang In There

 Hello beautiful readers. I am back!!!

First of all let me present my apologies. Sincere apologies. I have been MIA for the past two years but hear me out I have a valid reason. Since the last 5 months I have given 12 entrance exams(still counting) and gave my 12th boards with PCMB( I signed up for the suffering). I had lost touch with writing and there was a time where I felt that my creativity had waned away, especially during my boards. But since most of it is over, I had a notion to update my devoted readers about what am I exactly up to these days.

Before anything else, lets talk about entrance exams. I perceive them as the pits of Tartarus in which we, students, are perpetually plummeting in without seeing the periphery. Its as if I am giving one exam the other one is lingering like an unloved guest; I am giving one, some other exam unexpectedly shows up. Expecting to get into a university, the indistinguishable pattern is bound to run over all again. Then how do you get out of this monotone through which each and every one of us is expected to run into? The answer is simple. Break the circle. I have learnt this the hard way that it's all a mind game, we can possibly control and manipulate all our thoughts, sentiments in the direction we want to. We can break this circle to get a single straight line on which we can run without looking back.

Few days back, I set foot in the realms of social media. I know what you all must be thinking. What can an anti-social person possibly be doing on these apps particularly after posting an entire article on how much I despise social media apps? Well, before you call me a hypocrite, I still would like to point out my intense repugnance towards this pretentious world capturing hoax happiness. Just a façade. Its feels good to stay connected with people, but there is a thin line in staying in touch and getting addicted. I personally use it to explore perspectives and anticipate inspirations. It can be termed "enjoyable" if and only if you like to dawdle.

The only riveting past time that I have cultured is by educating tiny human beings at a NGO near my place. A shocker isn't it?  I had never imagined myself as a teacher, much less a math teacher, but here I am. Now I finally got some time in my hands( hopefully without jinxing it) volunteering to make a difference feels great. Other than all this, I am sticking to the usual ,i.e, Netflix and chill, reading, sketching, painting, etc.

Change is the only constant, right? I bet everyone including myself is going through it. Sometimes it feels like an incessant tunnel with faith as the only beam of light. Other times its feels like a rainbow illuminating your life with every colour possible. On this note, I am enthralled to announce that I have explored a whole new writing style with a whole new me. Please do keep cheering for me, as my wonderful readers have always done. After all, this blog and my readers are the only spectators watching me grow not only as a writer but as a person.

Do not hesitate to share your views on the same. See you in the comment section;)

THE LIMBO

 

Hello beautiful readers!

I am back with another piece where I have explored a completely new theme and for the first time have collaborated with a passionate writer and a friend of mine, Ananya Jhunjhunwala. We have crafted this article for all the teenagers out there cause teenage years can be dreary right?

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THE LIMBO 

Everyday wake up at 5 am to fill the unfathomable void of homework then gawk at the scintillating computer screen till the eyes throb and maybe later become the victim of peer pressure, cyberbullying or stress. Well, this is the mundane life of a teenager along with various mood swings, pool of pimples and a little bit of angst. Adolescence is a tedium period yet fascinating cause one walks on a thin line between being a child and adult, muddled which side should they choose.

I recently came across this beautiful quote from the book/movie Chemical hearts, it goes like ‘Adults are just scarred kids who are lucky enough to make it out of the limbo alive'. It describes that teenage years are like an inescapable limbo between childhood and adulthood cause as a teenager you're discovering emotions like love, heartache, hatred, betrayal for the first time and your body is experiencing things that u have never felt before as if you are entering in an uncharted territory.

It is definitely tough being a teen today cause everyday you have to deal with pressures of social media, bullying, raging hormones and academic expectations. With constantly evolving personalities and moods, it is difficult to know who to count on. Everyone expects you to be mature like an adult but there is still a child in you who just wants to explore new things.

Another famous saying by Ijeoma Umebenyuo perfectly defines teenage life. It goes something like this " So many broken children living in grown bodies mimicking adult lives." Yes, we are broken. Yes, we indeed do live in grown up bodies which puberty gifts us with, and yes, all we are trying to do is mimic adult lives. We never had and we still do not have an identity of our own selves. We are neither considered in the category of children nor in the adult category. We are just like just like our minds, stuck. We just like our elders as need our share of love, understanding and support. Moreover, we need someone who listens to us and tries to understand our thoughts, feelings and emotions. Adults always tag us as impulsive and we are very often left unheard. I think we deserve our freedom of taking our own decisions based on what seems right or wrong to us.

 Well, Ananya and I might have exaggerated the horrors of being a teen slightly but we think teenagers keep going through a lot of things on a daily basis just like any other age group. Everyday is a proof that we come out stronger than yesterday. We hope you keep loving yourself and embrace this with a big smile on your face because you are not alone. 

WE ARE IN THIS TOGETHER!

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THE ERA OF E-LEARNING

 Hello beautiful readers, i am back with another post!

I know i haven't been able to post new articles cause I was tied up with online classes and homework. Speaking of e-learning, believe it or not, millions of learners and educators have adapted it in daily life but everyone has a spectrum of opinions on the ease of learning through this medium. Since this pandemic has overall altered our life in many ways, it has forced us to acclimatize to digital screens over textbooks. What are your opinions on this? 

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THE ERA OF E-LEARNING 

Honestly speaking, online education is an idyllic fantasy for me; attending class in pajamas, sitting with a tub of ice-cream during profound shower of knowledge and giving me a perfect way to binge on Netflix whilst attending class. Well, I can say that Genie has already granted my one out of three wishes.Meanwhile, all educators approach this new paradigm with either great enthusiasm or varying degrees of skepticism. Parents are arguing about the futility of conducting online classes for younger students and most learners are facing issues with the technological aspect of this mode of learning. All these facets have created an overall controversy which elopes the general idea of learning through screens.

Since online learning is an unprecedented territory for most of us, it poses potential threats to the success of it. Students from rural or lower socioeconomic neighborhoods are facing challenges with lack of access to a suitable device or network bandwidth along with minimum computer skills which are hampering with the success rate of online programs. Additionally, technology is neither seamless nor reliable because one can come across numerous issues including internet connections, sites crashing down, several internal problems in the app and the list continues giving more excuses to pupils for not completing their homework. Teachers are having difficulties in explaining some concepts through screens, additionally, many learners are having trouble in understanding particular topics.

Conversely, e-learning offers a whole new perspective to modern education along with opening endless possibilities for pupils to explore multiple courses on one topic from any part of the world. Asynchronous online learning has allowed physically challenged learners and educators to participate in class without any restrictions. Time efficiency is another strength brought by e-classes as the transportation time is saved. According to teachers, students are more focused and attentive in online classes as the distractions are less thus avoiding unnecessary chit-chats. The creativity of educators has overall boosted as they come up with multiple ways to ensure the learner has understood the topic well.

Socializing is the one thing missed by e-learning as it is quite tough to make friends and interact with professors cause it simply misses the human touch. It is a known fact that peers play a quintessential role in understanding the logistical concepts and adapting to a new environment to bring a level of comfort among people who you haven't met before.

We have now entered an era where the conventional textbooks are replaced with sleek and shiny laptops which has the knowledge of the whole world only with a click of a mouse. Deep down we all miss the traditional classroom way of learning but at least till the pandemic is over, we must adapt to it!

BE SAFE!!!

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A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME

Hi beautiful readers! I am back with another post which is inspired by the Netflix series Dark. Whilst i binged through the 3 seasons filled with enigma, I pondered ' What if time travel was possible?'

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A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME

What if i tell you that time travel is credible and you can travel to any year you like?

Well, keeping aside the scientific aspect, any sane person would travel back to 2019 to somehow prevent the transmission of Covid-19 or at least warn the world about its peril which in turn might save the lives of thousands of people. 

Time travel has been mentioned in many mythologies from all cultures. For example the Japanese mythology narrates the tale of Urashima Taro who traveled to the realm of Gods and returned home after 300 years. In Hindu mythology, King Kakudami also traversed to Heavens to meet Lord Brahma for his daughter's marriage and waited for 20 mins which in turn were a million years on Earth. Greek mythology also signifies the same belief. Coincidence? No. Well, I theorize that the Gods once described immortal explored time travel to be omnipresent. Crazy, right?

Time travel is about crossroads; one has to decide if they want to revisit past to physically be mesmerized by all the glorious moments penned down in historical books or can take a glimpse of the destined future filled with tinny voiced robots and scintillating screens. If you choose to voyage into the past, you can support Pythagoras or Aristotle when they convince people that Earth is not flat (your name can be written in history textbooks too) or can take a picture with Cleopatra to upload on your social media. There are about an endless number of things you could do or change.

If you decide to take a peek of our fates to satisfy your raging curiosity, traveling to future is a ride promised with bewilderment, eureka and epiphany. You can check out the well being of your loved ones in the distinct future, the advancement in technology, upcoming brands, which share market to invest in and do not be shocked if you meet your older self. Traveling to the future might assist us to discover major world threats and we can even know how the world ends!

This may sound extremely overwhelming but time travel is like opening Pandora's box as the consequences of your actions in past or future will be affecting your present. Alternate dimensions, wormholes, dark matter and all the things we have seen in sci-fi movies will become our reality, making our current world labyrinthine. Trust me, if we mess with time, our world will definitely be more perplexed than the series Dark.

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A parade from the heavens

Greetings,reader! Since the rainy season has embarked, i have written a small piece of descriptive capturing a part of its essence. I hope you guys like it😉😉

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A parade from the heavens 

The morning brought strings of grey lousy stratus dabbed across the ashen sky, foreboding a downpour. Moist, heavy air, encompassed the city, signaling the umbrellas to open up in full glory, giving it a chance to display its hues. Cascading from the impudent sky, the whispering hum as layers of condensation plummeted to the barren ground, altogether yet as pioneers led by their dictator. It quenched the soil with life support making the grass glossier than ever, reflecting scarce sunlight. The crazy chaotic drops filled up deep puddles that hide the ruts implanted by the cruel summer. Small pellets of water kissed my skin with affection, making me hope for unanticipated flashes of lightning or reverberating rolls of ominous thunders. Rain pounded on the rooftops as the sky roared with utter satisfaction. A dense earthly smell rose from the ground, enveloping everything in its soft embrace. The turbulent wind determined the wild vortices of chilly drops. Electric flares lit up the dreary clouds as if it were showcasing peeks of the disco party of Gods. Rain was truly the music of nature, its melodies bringing a new weather along with an era of hope. Sometimes i feel that rain is a theatrical performance of nature starring water droplets, directed by strong winds, produced by grey puffs in the sky and ended by thunderous rounds of cheers. 

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THE CHARIOT OF HAPPINESS

Hi guys, i am back with a piece of descriptive today!!!

Since recently i have got a lot of time on my hands, i have been spending it on admiring the exquisiteness of nature( always been a nature lover). For this article i have written a descriptive piece of sunrise as i watched from my window at 6 am. I feel that the sunrise is a common phenomenon which is seriously underrated. We wake up everyday and get so involved in our personal busy lives that we fail to appreciate the purity and allure of natural things like sunrise, making us bypass the teachings of nature.

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THE CHARIOT OF HAPPINESS 

The world is a pencil drawing, recreated constantly on the easel of the creator to spawn up a masterpiece. Right now the sky is a dark slate, waiting for my imagination to fill it up with grotesque figures erupting from my brain. The blackness of the night has strong protective arms and mystic kisses, holding me close until the sun travels back to rescue me. 

Soon the luminous streaks break radiating light as if a section of blackness has been erased to be filled with yellows. Audience to the cricket's lullabies, the star rose up in glory making the clouds blush and spreading her gold in every direction. It parred down the intensity of distant stars once scattered upon the darkness of night. There came the mellow blues, pinks and tangerines to merge together in a silver horizon bringing forth another gorgeous sketch, ambitiously illuminating each crevice of the land. These soft rays again brought hope and warmth to Earth after the cruel night to make the leaves shimmer once again along with giving a million opportunities to life on Earth. The glorious light softly caressed the land and ignited the birds into a chorus of melodies.Brilliant sunlight shone amid endless hues of white, making the clouds ruffle in riffles. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the beauty and simplicity brought to our planet in an everyday phenomenon called the sunrise.

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THE VIRTUAL LABYRINTH

Hi guys! I know I haven't been posting regularly as i was caught up in my board exams but now i am all free and quarantined so i assure you that i will keep posting regularly. Secondly, the following post is highly opinionated so please feel free to express your outlooks in the comments section below or can connect me via email. Lastly, I hope all my voracious readers are safe and healthy amidst the recent Coronavirus outbreak. Be safe and keep reading!

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THE VIRTUAL LABYRINTH 

Imagine there is a pile of fudgy, ultra thick layer of chocolaty brownies with a perfectly wrinkly crust on top emitting hot fumes in front of you. The spoon awaits to dive in whilst the brown chocolate sauce slithers and reigns over the polished white plate. But instead of dissecting it and thrilling your taste buds like a normal person, we take pictures of it with a gazillion filters along with captioning it like #yummy#brownies#treatday#truelove#blah blah blah that will continue till the rest of the page even though everything is pretty evident in the photograph. 

The advent of social media has improved our connections and marketing amongst people around the globe. Also it has helped us to stay updated since its arrival but at some point or another we all must have realised how hyped it has become especially amid the youth(Gen Z). I feel it has become a world of lies, pretense just like a virtual labyrinth that we cannot escape. Right now millions and millions of people are sharing their personal information, eccentric selfies and their voguish dance moves on a platform fundamentally made to keep us appraise. It has now become a portal for several criminal activities since, we always update our whereabouts, right?

Influencing, one of the professions on social media has flourished over the last few years as your one like has aided them to generate income. The idea of being an influencer is very polarizing and hence it is blossoming amongst teens to showcase their painstaking job of doing fancy nails, teaching us the art of a messy bun and most notably going thrift shopping which after all is just a business. 

Honestly speaking, social media has become more like politics( you follow me and i will follow you, i like your post and u like mine etc) just like a race of addicts to reach the highest number of followers or likes. Now social media has effectively made its way into every classroom, dinner table and workplace. Did you know that is has a hand in increasing eating disorders in teenagers, especially girls?  Did you know that it has a strong influence on a person's self confidence towards their body, eating patterns and poor self concept just to attain a perfect physique which might fetch more likes? Cyberbullying, depression, anxiety are just in line which is vacuous and outrageous.

I have no intentions to alarm you, just stating the facts. Today, I stand proud to announce that I am only on Whatsapp (just to stay connected with my amazing readers) and my life is perfectly normal as i ain't missing out anything. Again, i am not asking you to do the same but just try to reduce your levels of addiction by trying to reflect upon your purpose on social media other than killing time. 

Lets skip the pretense!

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