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[496] The Knowing

August 29, 2021August 29, 2021by Rahul Gaur4 Comments

The need to be understood drives all of us in our conversations. In all our little body movements and all that we signal on social media. We project our fond illusions in order to miraculously escape a direct confrontation with our truth. We seek to experience without experiencing and try to imbibe someone else’s articulation [...]

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[477] The Last Two Minutes of Humanity

June 25, 2021June 25, 2021by Rahul Gaur10 Comments

Everything we don't know ages us. And because we don't know a lot, we live so little. It is said that if we compressed the universe's history in a 24 hour day, human life would come to fruition just 2 minutes before midnight. This is a truth that stays on the edges of our grey [...]

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[473] The Test of Will

June 19, 2021June 19, 2021by Rahul Gaur8 Comments

The familiar forgotten feelings mark a blue moon return. A knot in my mind that I thought had unravelled reveals its survival, as it resurrects. An ugly moon hidden by the clouds. I know no other way to talk about it other than talking about it as if it is something other than what it [...]

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[400] Promote Your Blog + 4 Blogging Lessons I Learned

February 15, 2021February 15, 2021by Rahul Gaur99 Comments

To mark the occasion of my 400th post and 4 years of blogging, I wanted to write this post to share the 4 lessons I've learned from blogging for this long. --- Also, you guys are free to comment here your blog links or one post that you’d like everyone to read. Let’s make this [...]

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[392] Keys to Living Life

January 25, 2021January 25, 2021by Rahul Gaur16 Comments

There are three modes of living life. ⁣⁣First is living through the mind. The mind is the rational and analytical switch of our body. When you need to see things as they are, you use your mind to confirm it.⁣⁣Second is living through the heart. The heart is the idealism and the moral switch of [...]

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[388] A New World Dawns

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021by Rahul Gaur15 Comments

Inconsistency is something I have been battling lately. I give too much power to my mind to wreak havoc with its lazy and destructive patterns. Control is what I seek and the more I seek it, the more it evades me.⁣⁣⁣⁣The next step in my development would be to capture consistency in my writing and [...]

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[381] Why We Write

December 25, 2020December 25, 2020by Rahul Gaur18 Comments

I write what I deny to think in my own head. I surprise myself as I watch these thoughts become real. It feels like someone else holds the pen and writes things I didn’t know I feel. He writes all that I thought I conquered but all I did was, lose to it.⁣⁣It’s a reminder [...]

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[339] Lost Truth

August 27, 2020August 30, 2020by Rahul Gaur7 Comments

In the evening I see shapes of people attempting to get fit from my window. I see in them familiar shapes and faces, enough for me to feel the urge to go outside and meet them. My eyes focus on one such familiar-looking individual.⁣ ⁣ He drags himself slowly with his head down, unaware of [...]

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[335] Promote Your Blog

July 30, 2020July 30, 2020by Rahul Gaur32 Comments

3000 followers. It's been a self-reflective journey of almost 4 years of writing consistently on this blog. While reach this milestone I have slowly and steadily built a community who are so sharp with their words and gentle with their feedback. When I didn't have this blog, everything about the people here compelled me to [...]

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[323] Zeitgeist of Our Times

June 22, 2020June 22, 2020by Rahul Gaur20 Comments

I recently learned the word “zeitgeist”, perhaps I’m late to the party but nonetheless, this word holds a great fascination for me. Its meaning in the dictionary is “the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.” According to a google search, it’s [...]