Category: Random

I couldn’t help but notice that I’m able to think a lot better and in depth when I’m walking relative to any other activity.

Walking offers the time where one can be with themselves. I didn’t feel the same while jogging or running as it requires me to distribute my focus such as keeping an eye on the road as well as people around (so they don’t bump into me). That’s also why I prefer walking in a park or on a secluded road.

Walking is therapeutic. I find it most effective doing it early in the morning on empty stomach. And not to forget, it comes with immense physical and mental health benefits.

I’ve personally brainstormed on a lot of ideas and analysed many situations while walking. I would highly recommend walking to anyone and everyone who see it as a daily chore.

Lately, I have been noticing that I am using my mobile phone a bit too much. Not because, I have something important to do every time I pick it up, but rather to keep myself occupied.

It doesn’t feel like a good habit. It seems like as I’m trying to run from myself, which comes out when I’m sitting doing nothing. And honestly, it feels a bit scary to be in a situation where you are literally doing nothing and sitting there just with yourself. In a way, face to face with yourself.

Whenever I find myself in such a situation, I generally start to reflect on things I’m currently doing or things I have been doing for some time. You may think of it as overthinking. As I start to feel overwhelmed just after being a few mins into this. Before, I could get any further, Bam! Distraction pulls me out.

I don’t know if not coming back or not giving enough weight to these thoughts is normal. And whether this will do me more harm in the future.

Deep down, I feel it certainly is not normal, and I should do something about it.

No doubt, our attention span is decreasing. Modern day content is optimized for views. Titles are clickbaity. So are thumbnails.

Short form content has blown up the social media usage. Shorts, Reels, Stories, and shit. People are glued to their devices than ever before.

In this race to bottom, one key thing is overlooked, ‘Nuance’. Endless consumption of content has corrupted our brains. Such short span of time spent on a single piece of content isn’t enough to truly understand it. We are forced to take things at face value, based on how they look on the surface. It takes effort to find how it works under the hood. This false sense of understanding has long term effects. It gives us the illusion that we are becoming smarter by consuming so much variety of content, but in reality, it is making us dumb.

Since we don’t understanding anything, we merely are aware of it.

Almost everything you read, watch on social media has a lot of nuance associated with it. And that nuance is crucial for understanding the true meaning of the content.

Once there was a poor farmer living in a village. He had a few cows and a small piece of land for farming. He used to make butter and sell it to a shopkeeper in a nearby city.

Every month, he would go to the city to sell the butter to that shopkeeper. He would offer the butter in the form of 1 kg blocks and receives sugar, pulses, and other groceries in exchange for the butter.

One day, the shopkeeper decided to weigh the butter. To his surprise, the butter blocks weighed only 900 grams. He became furious and planned to confront the farmer during his next visit.

When the farmer came next month to deliver butter, the angry shopkeeper told him how he was cheated and asked him to leave the shop.

To which the poor farmer courteously responded, “Sir, I’m poor, I don’t have enough money to buy weights for weighing the butter. I used to place the 1 kg sugar you give me on one side of the weighing scale and weighed the butter on the other side.”

The shopkeeper was embarrassed and couldn’t look straight into farmer’s eyes.

This short story beautifully illustrates how what we give to others comes back to us. It’s Karma!