Stop Escaping Behind the Canvas. Time to Step Out — This morning, your muse strikes and you get an idea for a film script. You open a page and start writing furiously. You start creating characters and conversations as they ought to be, a place where things are intensely interesting and unreal. Because the reality that we know is a…

#1: How About Aiming Beyond Youth? — We’re getting there, almost there, and we’re dreading it. We’ve been on the bus for a while riding that freeway hard, with the wind on our hair. So far, it’s been awesome and we don’t want it to stop, like ever. Let the bus ride on! And on, and on. …

Who are we beyond the chess-board? — “Oh yes comrade, chess is an escape — an escape from reality. It is an “out”, a kind of “make-work” for a man of higher than average intelligence who was afraid to live, but could not leave his mind unemployed and devoted it to a placebo — thus surrendering to…

Or in Short, Aiming Beyond the Skill — There, our online dream is nearly there. We can learn any skill we want from wherever we are today. The ocean of skills lies open and endless. Where do we dive in and how do we choose and where do we go? …

Ignore Them and You’re The Fool, Not The Hero — “Don’t do that, you won’t make a good first impression.” The first time I heard that while in my early 20s, I cringed. My internal monologue being: “Why should I bend over to some convention, only to accommodate someone else’s impression? As if I am supposed to care!” There’s it…

Some dynamites are dressed in everyday things — Some dynamites are dressed as books. They’re dangerous. No easy toy reads by a bedside lamp. Sit up straight, eyes wide open, and digest them with care. They demand to participate and filter them, wash the husk Until it becomes yours, privately, a kept secret between you two. It won’t matter if you “dislike” them and…

Time to step away from competition and high-speed races — Let’s talk about competition. Today you’re outmatched in every sense by someone or the other. Name any skill/talent and there’ll be a quarter of the planet to outclass you. Heck, you’ll find a prodigy in your own street, who already beats you to everything at two decades younger. …

Beware of all verbal advice, suggestions, and descriptions — There’s a kind of speech that generates order from chaos, breaks down large problems to manageable bits, and organizes clutter in thinking. Obviously, speech and words are a phenomenal tool. But there’s a fine border, which when crossed in overuse of speech, we end up misleading and distorting ourselves. …

Rule #2: Feet on the Ground, Head in the Skies. But Feet on the Ground First. — Today, in this modern exhibition, I speak from the youth booth and stall, with a rather unfavorable looking syringe at hand — Maturity. At first, the word ‘Maturing’ might make us cringe. We prefer passion and the quixotic. Maturity seems like the muttering elderly uncle standing opposed to us, blocking…