Thought Catalog 34

We love someone when the importance of his or her needs and desires rises to the level of our own. When people fall in love, no justification for their attachment is necessary. When people fall out of love, the demands for an explanation are insistent. Much of what passes for intimate communication involves admonitions and […]

Voters Yearn to be on Winning Side

We perceive the world not in any objectively accurate sense but through the lens of our own needs, goals, and prior experience. Still, we take a lot of pride in being a rational person. This is evident in our endeavour to get the highest degree of educational qualification from topmost educational gatekeepers — a signaling […]

Thought Catalog 32

We profess indifference to what we secretly long for but do not have. It’s advisable to revisit the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer us. We prefer to quote rather than speak and think for ourselves. Anger results not from an uncontrollable eruption of the passions, but from a basic […]

Why Should You Refrain From Chasing Happiness?

Had happiness been the ultimate panacea, we all would have enjoyed the Netflix and gorged on daily diets of unhealthy & tempting fast foods. But then we all can recollect instances when we had to go through that sh**ty feeling after indulging ourselves in brainless consumption. If that is the reality then why are we […]

Thought Catalog 25

Being smart is all about having the ability to go deeper and extract more abstract information from deluge of data that keeps inundating our senses on consistent basis. Life in any given socio-economic system is too complicated and there’s no one correct path to understand all its nuances. Any sincere effort to understand it is […]