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Unlike football field the middle portion of the berth in Indian trains are not the favorite piece for the travellers but it does contribute in orchestrating the drama in a train journey.  When I entered the train 5mins before the journey started, little did I know about the fun waiting for me. I had to rush from office to get home, grab my things and get into the metro station. No appreciation is ever enough when we talk about the metro trains which are also feeders for the long distance train stations which was my first destination. I just can’t stop admiring how metro flies above the normal roads on those metal tracks like a king when the whole city is stuck in traffic going nowhere. Metro keeps gliding carrying a big chunk of office goers back to their little abode across the town. I didn’t want to miss my train back home and was continuously running various complicated algorithms on my mind based on various time sensitive parameters on how to make it on time. Long story short w...

Guru word is so popular worldwide now that you don’t even have to look it up on Oxford dictionary. Everyone considers themselves to be a guru on one or other thing. Every new beginning starts with us bowing in front of guru and/or chanting the divine mantra of ‘Om Sri Gurubhyo Namaha’. It is a belief that the vibrations that this can bring when practiced with a pious mind is comparable with various other powerful verses and mantras.  A new born baby observes everyone around him/her and learns from all. As he/she grows up, starts acknowledging the parents as a de-facto guru for the role they play in teaching their kids. Most of the religious beliefs across the globe places parents on a pedestal and agree as a guru in many ways. As we keep growing older, we are exposed to a larger world where we learn lot of the things parents don’t want us to learn, from your acquaintances and friends. Most of these friends tend to be older than us in age or exposure to the world. Many of them might...

I f we try to contemplate whether we need a stable family or personal life to do well in job, we might get confused thinking whether it is actually steady and peaceful job that brings stable family or personal life. When we zoom-in further to it, we could see that stress in either of it can impact our lives at both ends. One of the most quintessential ingredients for a composed mind is the support of the family and the confidence that there is someone who genuinely cares for us and roots for us whatever happens. Unfortunately for many families doesn’t mean the same as painted above in the family portrait. While all the stress in this world could compete and challenge each other for being the toughest one to handle, the real one where the mind really gets crushed is the stress induced by family. Even though there are ideologies which gives direction to form ideal family, there is no real ideal family. It’s like that picture which is beautiful in spite of the imperfections because it bri...

Four in every ten people we meet in this world are expected to be stressed. Many times we don’t realize that one of our dear one is in that four too. Think about ten people you met today, can you name the ones you suspect to be stressed? Maybe not, as most of us had mastered the art of masking the stress and projecting a sparkling version of ourselves to the outside world. Reality is that there is nothing to be ashamed of being stressed instead we need to cultivate a society where it is spoken out loud and we look after each other to ensure stress gets the treatment it deserves by getting it busted!  We are always in look out for stress busters and keen to adapt famous methods around us. But why do we get stressed? For every individual it is different, as unique as we are with our dna, the types and variety of stress inducers are also different. Many of us are stressed because of our job commitments or rather expectations. Many times we set these expectations unknowingly, by overco...

Stress is a by-product of human life when facing situations or conditions beyond our natural habitat. We face it everywhere around us whenever we are challenged in ways which are irregular. We are used to a template or pattern of life and life events, any routes which are not mapped in otherwise routine life of ours guarantees a minimum stress level. That is the easiest way to put forth the concept of stress. The body reacts to stress causing chemical changes which reflects in the form of blood pressure, heart rate, sugar levels and many unknown ways which great men of scientific knowledge are still learning about. Stress which is caused by pressure can also be negative or positive. None of us are used to associating pressure as positive as in today’s world stress had become synonymous to negative pressure. We can be stressed with our work demands, overwhelming family commitments, challenging personal goals, unattainable financial backlogs and ever-increasing societal expectations to l...