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[335] Promote Your Blog

July 30, 2020July 30, 2020by Rahul Gaur20 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 [...]

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[271] Making of The Truth

November 19, 2019June 9, 2020by Rahul GaurLeave a Comment

What pushes a person from knowing something to be true to believing something to be true? It's the journey between knowledge and feeling that knowledge. The gap between thinking and doing. To understand this is to know yourself. You are gradually learning the things that shape you and you begin to create these surroundings by [...]

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[269] Lying To Myself

November 11, 2019by Rahul Gaur11 Comments

All that I’ve written previously are thoughts that I no longer remember, words that I didn’t act upon and feelings that I don’t relate to. Is all we are the thoughts that we hold then? Or are the ones I’m writing out now going to become a part of my subconscious soon? Will these thoughts [...]

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[266] 42.

October 31, 2019by Rahul Gaur4 Comments

Naturally, we're all filled with self-doubt in every waking moment. A feeling that normally stays dormant till we're faced with the mountain of expectations. Either from us or from others. What we need to understand is that these expectations are given articulation by our own mind. So in a sense, these expectations are self-made. But [...]

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[261] How To Begin Again

September 27, 2019September 27, 2019by Rahul Gaur2 Comments

You forget the process when you stay away from it long enough. The process of beginning again rusts to form resistance and you feel lost while trying to find the spark to discover fire again. There is the idea and then there is a journey you go through to reach that idea or let that [...]

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[246] Confused Clarity

June 17, 2019by Rahul Gaur7 Comments

My distraction is aware of all that it lacks. It can be missing out on the various sounds of rain or it can be not holding the knowledge to appreciate architecture it falls on. I accept that there is a lot that I don't accept. I understand that there is a lot that I don't [...]

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[238] The Napkin Cafe

April 23, 2019June 26, 2019by Rahul Gaur14 Comments

Mumbai is a city where you see people drifting in and out of their own lives. Some days they feel the urge to live and some days they stay quiet and let the city consume them. On the days of living people go out in blind hope of chancing upon their destiny. They feel the [...]

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[222] Letting Go

January 10, 2019by Rahul Gaur1 Comment

I’m at a point in my life where tedium has replaced ideas in my brain. The concept of time is just a construct and the passing of it as ignorant as my ignorant breaths. I lie in bed, fully awake in my physical form but half asleep mentally. The internal voices have died down into [...]

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[207] Looking Again

November 21, 2018November 21, 2018by Rahul Gaur23 Comments

How do I start writing? How have I written until this point in time?These questions plague my mind that is numb. Feelings don’t come and stay, they are fleeting like the time that I lost. The confidence that I cherished until now is nowhere to be felt. Ideas do come in my head but they [...]