What makes you different?

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

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.

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 is the best way to get over your ex?

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.

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

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

Does having the wrong address on my car insurance invalidate my policy?

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

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.

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

What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Watermelon Regularly - Verywell Health

Take my word. You won’t regret it.

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

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.

Why is my vagina swollen, it’s very itchy. I had sex we used protection, but day after it felt like my insides had a heartbeat as well as itching, the pulsing has went away but it is still itchy and my discharge is yellow, i'm 15, what could it be?

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.

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

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

My boyfriend always verbally abuse me and makes me cry. If I try to tell him how hurt I was, he says to me he loves me and can't hurt me but always abuse me. Why?

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?

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.

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.

What kind of book did you write after turning 55?

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

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 make it?

Is there a stereotype that South Indians are physically strong and muscular compared to other regions of India?

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.

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

What would you do if you found out that someone had broken into your home while you were sleeping?

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

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

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

What do you think of the Black history lessons in the PBS documentary about jazz pianist-singer Hazel Scott?

Don’t drink because everybody does today.

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

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

How will Israelis respond to someone claiming that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, in the same way as anti-feminism not being misogyny and opposing same-sex marriage not being homophobia?

Agree?

Yes, I was not at all happy.

What if he’d come outside?

Was Michael Jackson really an innocent person?

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.

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

What makes you YOU.

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

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.

So, keep on experimenting.

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

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.

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

You know how all of this enlightenment came to me.

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

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

Without experiments, is life worth it.

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.

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

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

So, what actually makes us all different?