Desire is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.
Naval Ravikant
Lost Myself – SYML
These days I have been hooked into the World History Videos.
It is hard for me to fathom the fact that no-one had hot shower until 50 years ago.
The electricity.
The entertainment.
Technology, the amenities, modern medicine, and the infrastructure we have today are mere fragments of imaginations for the ones who lived 100 years ago.
Someone said it right, “We are living like Kings.”
Yet.
We are never objectively happy.
Subjectively worse.
To top it off, the rampant social media; the flex culture in tandem bringing in the worst of us. Nakedly. Ignorantly. Unknowingly.
Generation Z or often referred to as ‘Zoomers’ are the ones who were born between late 1990s and ealy 2010s. They are often described as first true ‘digital nativees’, having grown up with smartphones, social media and the internet access.
On September 8, 2025. Gen Z organized a protest against Corruption. Although there are plenty of other narratives that have found its way on the local, national and global media.
Estimated total of 21 Gen Z protestors were Gunned down that day
The videos coming out were heart wrenching.
Heavy.
Unimaginable.
Nepal was crying.
People outraged!
But.
I can’t comprehend how a grown-ass man can pull the trigger aiming for the maximum fatality towards those kids.
I can’t comprehend how a genuine concern to call out on an evident corrupted system can have you killed. Not one. Not 5. Un-official data is:
51
I can’t comprehend how horrifying it would’ve been for the ones who heard the news of their loved ones killed.
My thoughts and prayers are with parents
who will never see their children,
who will never hear a word … from them,
who will never feel the warmth of their skin.
who will never share their laughter, their sadness, their happiness, their experience.
Don’t try to write a great book. Just write a book, then make it great later. Don’t try to build a perfect product. Just build a great product, then make it great later. Your initial jobisn’t creating something amazing. Or even something good.Your initial job is simply making something exist.
Hugh MacLeod
Krishna Stuti by Devrishi
After along day at work and a game or two of chess.
With her beside. Watch her, Until the last breath.
~ Author
Billie Eilish – BIRDS OF A FEATHER
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey was the first ever non-fiction book I had an opportunity to get my hands on — that too very much accidentally. That’s a separate story for some other time.
One of the line in the book read loud, … all in bold.
“BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND”
It’s been over a decade since I’ve touched that book and quite frankly I have forgotten all the other six habits that Sean put in that wonderful masterpiece with only an exception of this six words maxim.
For the most part i haven’t forgotten it is because the line was always on the back of my mind in all crucial decisions I’ve made. It is a filter all of these decisions pass through.
In the like pretext, when Ryan Holiday introduced me to ‘Memento Mori’ that translated to ‘remember that you must die’ from one of his essays; I tell you — I’ve always navigated my life deliberately, diligently and delicately around these two sharp lines I hold dear.
The inevitable end of borrowed time and the value of beginning anything keeping a sublime end in mind — must be the path, must be the goal.
Must be j.u.s.t.
Begin with the end in mind
I’ve always done things this way.
I always will.
And, I see how I want to see my life drop the curtain off :