September 10 was World Suicide Prevention Day and so I thought to tailor this post around that. I wasn’t so sure what to write though. I still am not but hoping that by the time this post ends, I would have come up with something coherent. As we go into a more ‘politically correct’ world, several terms are being reviewed. While some seem cringe to me, others make more sense and I personally do not mind adopting them. One of such is the rephrasing of ‘committed suicide’ to ‘die by suicide’. The first time I came across this, I didn’t see the big deal. It felt like, the person killed…

My first thought on waking up this morning was, ‘it’s just about 4 months to 2022’. In many ways, the past few months have been a blur. It’s hard to imagine that so much time has passed since January 1st, 2021 when I sprained my ankle while playing ‘Twistas’ at an end-of-the-year/crossover game night with a couple of friends. Despite that, I still recognise and feel how long this year has been. It has felt like an endless stretch of time and for the most part, I have just wanted it to end. I clearly remember cancelling the entire year right from the beginning of the second quarter. I was…

It’s another Sunday! I have kept my weekly commitment to posting for about four weeks in a row now and that’s great! Looking back, I realise that if I didn’t start then, 4 weeks would have gone by and I still wouldn’t have gotten around to writing. I am finding that picking a topic to write about has been one of the most daunting things so far. There’s the picking a topic to write about, and then choosing what title the post should have. Honestly, sometimes I really just want to publish without a title, but I am not sure how that would go. Thankfully, I am not optimising these…

Have you ever thought about the fact that we are all writing a story with our lives? Well, in the real sense of it we can say we are living our lives and trying to make sense of it by piecing all the different parts to make a story. But is it really a story if, as Steve Jobs said, the dots only connect when looking back? In the past week, I have been thinking a bit more about life stories. At the beginning of the week, a friend started a new job at a company he has always wanted to work at. And even though he tries to downplay…