A few gems from a book that I am reading – The Anthology of Balaji. In no random order…
It may be that humans get addicted to feeling righteous anger just like we get addicted to sugar, alcohol, or nicotine. If we can, social media is a superstimulus we need to identify and consciously limit in our information diets.
If you are what you eat, then you think what you see.
Non-obvious truths are always unpopular in some way, because they are either very technical or very sacrilegious. Popular communication channels are biased toward telling you obvious things or false things—or both.
OLD: Trust one source to hear all sides. NEW: Hear all sides before trusting one source.
Many people do not reason forward from logical premises, but backward from social consequences.
And FIVE MONTHS already pass by.
Do you remember what you did on the second day of 2024? or 2021? or 2020?
Chances are that you would not have a clue. New Year’s Eve is considered a special occasion and we generally recollect what we did on these days every year, and also probably the next day as well. But that does not hold true for the very next day – when we start to settle into the new year or what they call ‘Business as usual’.
And so it continues, with some breaks and some milestones (birthdays, anniversaries) in between, until we reach the 31st again, and so on and so forth.
Life seems to go on in auto mode nowadays – with us in the middle of a large cycle that keeps going. And it keeps going until we realize that we are well past our prime and well, we went through the motions to reach there but hardly lived.
Maybe we need to constantly remind ourselves of our journey, and our current standing – where we are at present, and how far we have come to get to here. How lucky we are to be where we are and how much we possibly have left, so as to make the best use of it.
Otherwise, life just passes us by, doesn’t it?
I leave you with a favorite quote of mine, from an author who I very recently discovered. You may like him too:)
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
Haruki Murakami