5 life lessons I’ve learned over the last 5 years

Photo by Jill Heyer, Web Designer @ Art Director, http://www.jillheyer.com/ I might be young; however, the last 5 years have knocked me over and lifted me up more times than I could count. That’s just life, isn’t it? Retrospectively, I grew more than I could ever realize, but there were also more tears than I would have wanted there to be. So, here are 11 ringing bells I have gotten over the…

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Understanding Mathematics

Photo by Artturi Jalli on Unsplas I grew up absolutely hating mathematics but here I am, 10 years later, trying to get through an undergraduate degree in Mathematics. My love for maths started in my English literature class. Funny enough, they are very opposing fields of study. I knew I was not good with words. In my head, if people could create wonders with the same 26 alphabets, then the same…

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The Art Of Manipulation

Photo by hessam nabavi on Unsplash It is so easy to get manipulated that some of us do not even notice. Manipulation is a way to control thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and relationships. People engage in such tactics on a daily basis. This is known as periodic manipulation. For example, telling an acquaintance you feel “fine” when you are actually depressed is, technically, a form of…

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Small habits?

Photo by Lala Azizli on Unsplash Something about the little things that you do in your everyday life is exactly what makes or breaks your day. Now that I fairly have some time on my hands, one thing I noticed from my days, is that the little things I used to do while studying are exactly what misses me the most. While I was at my table, I had gotten into a habit of making time-lapses, and…

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How hard can it be to get out of a slump?

Photo by Cris Saur on Unsplash What even is a slump? It’s a downturn in performance — a struggling ballplayer and a sinking economy are both in a slump. There are many kinds of slumps, but they all involve things going downhill. If you slide down in your chair, you slump. Other slumps are less physical. When you’re in a Slump, you’re not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily…

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An Occasional Burnout

Photo by Nataliya Vaitkevich on Pexels.com The feeling of ‘burnout’ is definitely not a pleasant one. This is where you remain stagnant and cannot bring yourself to do your tasks for some time period; I’d even classify it as a vicious cycle. You procrastinate; you push forward your tasks for tomorrow and when tomorrow comes, the tasks get further pushed forward and never get done. The feeling…

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Overworking Your Brain Can Spark Ideas

Photo by Kvalifik on Unsplash In our modern lives of nowadays, where creativity is a rare ‘aspect’; people who work in different organizations try out different methods to they could better deal with a rising problem. When we’re tired, most of us think that resting would help us think better. Well, that’s not entirely true, the findings from a new research study have suggested that mental…

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The Inability To Recognize Emotions

The Inability To Recognize Emotions

Photo by Natasha Connell on Unsplash Medically known as Alexithymia, it is a marked dysfunction in emotional awareness, social attachment, and interpersonal relation. Furthermore, people with high levels of alexithymia can have difficulty distinguishing and appreciating the emotions of others, which is thought to lead to unemphatic and ineffective emotional responses. While the condition is not…

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The man at night

The man at night

Photo by Stefano Pollio on Unsplash When I was younger, I had a lot of problems sleeping at night. I’d sometimes wake up and feel suffocated, almost like someone is choking me; or just simply, turn my head and find a man crouching down next to my bed and staring right at me. Maybe, waiting for me to move, which I definitely was not able to, or just watching. During those times, I was far too…

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Your Feelings Come From Your Brain

Photo by Alexas_Fotos on Unsplash I was recently watching a show where one of the protagonists got a heart transplant and ended up in love. During that time, the latter kept on questioning whether it was their own feelings or it was those of the previous heart owner. This got me thinking whether our feelings come solely from the brain or is our heart also in sort of way ‘involved’?  Most of us…

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Déjà Vu

Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash Has it ever happened that you’re talking to a friend and suddenly you think- Oh, this has happened before? Most of us have experienced the eerie familiarity of déjà vu, and now the first brain scans of this phenomenon have revealed why — it’s a sign of our brain checking its memory. The term déjà vu is French and means, literally, “already seen.” Those who have…

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What Defines Us

Photo by Norbert Kundrak on Unsplash Personality is a big word. It is one of the things that make us who we really are. It builds itself around our thoughts and decisions and at some point, the reason you will be having certain thoughts or making certain decisions is because of your personality itself.  Many scientists believe that it is something that comes from within; while many also believe…

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Why do we like listening to music

Photo by James Stamler on Unsplash ‘We just do’. Yes, it can be hard to describe why we like something sometimes, but what people do not realize is that we do know it subconsciously.  “Self-awareness,” it turns out, is a big reason we listen to music. There is so much more than the joy we get from music; it could be peace, emotional control, amongst many others. The reason you listen to music…

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Ending The Year

Photo by Clay Banks on Unsplash This year is about to end in a few days. It was a pretty tough year for a lot of people and it is all about to end. We’ll say ‘Hello’ to new beginnings, habits, thoughts soon enough.  We all start the year with massive motivation to do what we have in mind- ‘to change’. However, it does not always work like that. Once the first few weeks go by, you start finding…

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The End Of The World

Photo by NASA on Unsplash We have been hearing about this ‘event’ for centuries now. It is almost entertaining reading the various theories out there about how the world will end in 2019, 2021. While I do agree, Covid- 19 impacted the world population more than what we could imagine, we are still not at the end, YET. It can be scary thinking about ‘The End Of The World’; my thoughts on this are,…

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How far is infinity real?

Photo by Reuben on Unsplash When hearing such a question, one would normally think ‘yes. Infinity exists and it’s big.’  But how far are we right about the concept of infinity? The word infinity is derived from ‘infinitas’, a Latin word, meaning endless or eternity. While in mathematical terms, it is a number greater than any assignable quantity or countable number.  Is anything infinite in…

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Borderline insanity

Photo by Diane Picchiottino on Unsplash A more specific word for this would be ‘shell shock’. This was a term coined in World war 1 to describe the type of PTSD many soldiers were afflicted with during war. At that time it was mostly a reaction to the severity of the many bombardments and fighting that consequently caused a sort of helplessness in terms of panic, their ‘fight or flight’ instinct…

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