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Are you grateful?

Published October 2, 2025 By 8ijay.shrestha

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.

Are you grateful?

Namaste.

Is, Was

Published September 18, 2025 By 8ijay.shrestha

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision
Marcus Tullius Cicero

^{Chezile – Beanie}

Robin is an ordinary 88 years old man just sitting on a park — all by himself.

When asked about how he feels at his age. He says, “Well… it feels less than 88… I don’t feel 88. It sort of comes up upon me.”

He further adds, “The older you get, the q.u.i.c.k.e.r it goes. and you have to make the most of it.”

There I remembered my Grand Ma.

When asked about if he has any regrets in his life.

He goes,”I suppose, I do,… yes. Not marrying the right girl!”

He digs deeper confronting he had the opportunity but he was too slow. He stresses, “Be Decisive and Go For It if you feel it’s right.”

There I remembered my Wife.

As naked as it can be, there will be one day when my ‘Is’ will become ‘Was’

When, stuff I stress about today will mean Nothing!

When, people or things that mean world to me today will be a distant memory.

Live immediately! One step at a time.

Namaste.

Gen Z

Published September 11, 2025 By Bijay Shrestha

Life and Fairness are not promised
Musicpervs

^{Alex Warren – Ordinary}

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:

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.

Grieving.

Empty.

I pray for Nepal.

I pray for the lost souls.

It still has not sunk-in yet.

Namaste.

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Just Start

Published August 28, 2025 By Bijay Shrestha

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.

I was melting.

Eyes hurting.

Head heavy.

I wanted to sleep.

I needed to Start.

Just Start.

Kick in the momentum. Flowing..

Bake Musicpervs warm and fresh

Give her lungs to breathe, the heart to beat.

Show up!

Namaste.

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Breaking the break

Published August 21, 2025 By 8ijay.shrestha

What is your home?
Musicpervs

^{Anomali (Reprise) – Jordan Critz}

3 months since I last wrote.

3 months of heaven on hell, and hell in heaven experiences.

There were Thursdays i could have wrote a line or two.

I succumbed to my laziness.

Surrendered.

I slept a minute or two more.

Musicpervs is my home.

No matter where, when and how, I return to my home anyway.

Namaste.

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Good things take time

Published April 17, 2025 By 8ijay.shrestha

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
The Obstacle Is the Way – Ryan Holiday

^{Laxmi Thapa – Topic}

1293 days since I landed in JFK on October 03, 2021.

Took me 3 years, 6 months, 15 days.

42 months, 15 days to be able to step into the new phase of my life here in the US.

Today was a very special day.

Good things take time.

But your goal is important.

Perseverance is non-negotiable.

Responsibility,.. more responsibilities is called for

Obstacle is the way.

Setbacks would be an integral part of living.

Bits of rain, bits of sunshine are blessings.

Namaste.

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Surfer Mentality

Published January 16, 2025 By 8ijay.shrestha

You can’t catch any waves siting on the shore. Always put yourself in the water.
Sahil Bloom

Laage Re Nain – Ayesha Omar, Rohali Hyatt

I was having a conversation with my Twin brother regarding the need of urgency in our lives.

I have been Pro-Urgent for a very long time.

I’m of an opinion that

Urgency invites change, demands commitment and hardship

Change invites Opportunities, demands consistency and discipline.

Opportunities invites responsibilities, makes like meaningful, purposeful and fruitful.

Wisdom demands what Bloom calls a ‘Surfer Mentality’

Meaning.

When a surfer rides a wave, they savor the present, knowing all too well that it won’t last forever. They fully immerse themselves in the experience, embracing each moment with the wisdom that more waves will follow.

Succinctly put.

Be mindful.

Of your decisions.

Of your indecisions.

Namaste.

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Charlotte – please be kind

Published January 9, 2025 By Bijay Shrestha

Fall in love with places. Fall in love with the situations. Inspect. Accept. Adapt.
Musicpervs

^{My Space is Overgrown – Aayushi}

I will be moving to Charlotte, North Carolina on January 11, 2025.

Having been living a nomadic life since I stepped in the US on October of 2021; The two suitcase life has been delightfully rewarding.

Who else than Colin Wright can explain this way of living.

Not having a stable, fixed household has never been a cause for concern.

I don’t have regrets a bit.

I take it as an opportunity to stretch and grow further.

I take it as an experience of the privileged,.. for the privileged — if things are full-well under control and fore-planned.

I like it.

Most certainly, it will be a wild, exciting, exhilarating and exhausting couple of days. Probably a week or two.

To settle down.

To acclimatize to new normal.

Charlotte — please be kind, gentle and beautiful!

Namaste.

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We only die once

Published December 12, 2024 By 8ijay.shrestha

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Seneca

^{Ek Din Aap Yoon Humko Mil Jayenge}

The entire while from when I was born, life has been wild and surprising,

Curve balls after curve balls.

Scaring. Scarring. Hustling, Humbling.

Chaotic. At times orderly for sure.

Changing. Demanding.

But. .. .but

One thing has been ‘a’ constant.

Yes, it was painful. It was petrifying.

It was confusing. Damning.

Regardless, no remorse.

No regrets.

Wouldn’t change anything.

About life, snoppy nails it best.

So.

Take this mixed bag. Do what you can do, when you can do, where you can do, how you can do. Focus on the now!

The Little Things.

Namaste.

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