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So much happened

Published September 23, 2022 By 8ijay.shrestha

Grateful ~ author

“My Mind” Ryan Harris 

I almost disappeared for a month from Musicpervs. Not that I have not admitted it before that I don’t promise anymore that I’d post a post every Thursday. Because only after coming to the US, my life completely switched gear from a known-comfortable mode to the strange-survival one. And, I had to juggle many priorities balls. I still do.

For instance, in the last one month or so; so so much have happened. So, so many things have occurred. Let’s scratch the surface here and there. Wrapping up on-campus courses. DE Midterm Exam. Job Interviews. Interview Preparations. Incomprehensible fatigue and mental vomits. Landing offers. Accepting one. Moving to San Francisco. Walking like crazy looking for apartment after apartment. Exploring this awesome city. Investing time and energy on Marketplace. Arranging and adding basic stuffs in the apartment and so so much more.

Most definitely, so much happened!

The most important thing for me personally, however —

is I enjoyed each moment of every moment that passed the time they were passing.

is I was nervous but nervous for the right mission.

is I was afraid but afraid of the right adventure.

Every freaking thing was worth it. Perhaps, someday I’ll write in length about this mixed-bag experience on this anew city.

Namaste!

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El dorado

Published September 15, 2022 By 8ijay.shrestha

There’s joys to be found in words.

There’s word to be found in a joy.

~ author
All In Blue – Logan and Isabel

Samyog and I have been doing too much of ‘El dorado’.

And Sauravi is annoyed for sure. While I can’t tell why I keep saying ‘El dorado’ this, ‘Eldorado’ that, I am sure Samyog doesn’t have answer for himself either.

For me, it’s just a word that brings joy for now. I don’t know its meaning. I’d rather care not to know. And, perhaps … perhaps I will stick with it for a while.

El doraro it is!

Namaste.

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I am Preparing

Published August 11, 2022 By 8ijay.shrestha

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
Ber, Charlie Oriain – Meant To Be

I am hitting hundreds and thousands of things at the same time.

I am preparing.

I am lost, I keep losing track of times, I am constantly distracted trying to get undistracted.

I am preparing.

I am watching tutorials. I am writing emails. I am helping friends with their coding problems. I am taking notes of things i learned. I am talking to people who matter. I am hungry and I am eating cookies. I go back to the tutorial again. I take notes again. I receive one message from a friend, I go and reply. I go on a restroom break. I feel like I need a break.

I am preparing.

I am watching one tutorial and then I would not understand one thing in particular. I go around the internet and try to get a T-depth understanding (as they call it). But then I end up picking something else. I end up remembering something else I once needed to work on or should’ve already worked onto by now. I end up finishing nothing.

I am preparing.

I don’t have one priority. I have four.

I am preparing.

I am trying to make sense-of-it-all.

I am trying to unblur the blur.

I am trying to take babysteps to not get overwhelmed with everything happening around me. Long story short, I was used to particular lifestyle of grinding and grinding and grinding for the lectures, exams, assignments and projects and now there’s an open road out there and I’ve to use my gut instinct to figure out the right path on my own.

I am preparing.

Namaste.

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Time does not wait

Published August 4, 2022 By 8ijay.shrestha

Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that

Jordan Peterson
Frizzell D’Souza – Foolish Once Again 

It is our responsibility to make the best use of our time.

Use it to grow our skills.

Use it to enrich our wealth of wisdom.

Use it in the act of kindness and selflessness.

Use it to take care of ourselves,.. to rejuvenate ourselves!

Use it to tell the story of its use.

Use it to paint your life with colors of joy and memories.

Time does not wait

It is our responsibility to invest our love for labor and effort in the time we have.

Use it to propel forward in life.

Use it to give all we can give for the sake of person we can become.

Use it to perhaps be proud of ourselves one-day!

Use it to never regret not using it, investing on it.

Time does not wait

Leap.

Discover.

Become.

Time doesn’t wait.

Namaste.

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Questions

Published July 28, 2022 By 8ijay.shrestha

There’s no graduation degree for wisdom. It’s a virtue. It’s in habits. It’s in choices. It’s the journey.

musicpervs
Gary Jules – Falling Awake

With me, there are times when I want to write so much about so many things; I end up writing nothing.

With me, there are excellent plans, there are these perfect action-items I would’ve set for the day; I end up binging sitcom.

With me, there are important things that need my important attention; I end up putting them off for later and spend hours sleeping.

Questions.

Should I feel bad, bitter and disgusted about these breaks?

Can i still make it with these stress-relieving stressful choices?

Is postponing pleasure and momentary happiness the only objective way to be really happy — fully and ever and after?

Namaste.

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Priorities

Published July 21, 2022 By 8ijay.shrestha

“To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. That world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of people.”

Charlie Munger
Madhubala (Lyrics) – Amit Trivedi

I and my brother were talking about Priorities this morning. I was telling him how much I have changed when it came to keeping up with the priorities.

I was telling him how I have allowed myself (shamelessly) to be flexible with Musicpervs weekly post schedule.

I was telling him how I sacrificed my workout regimen.

I was telling him how I have (without any guilt) learned to look and listen and act according to the priorities.

Weekly posts can wait. You can always make up for it.

Workout can wait. You can always make up for it.

Things that can wait — can wait. You always have a second shot (and acknowledging this is crucial)

But opportunities don’t!

Acknowledge.

You make up priorities for opportunities that awaits,

for things that are tangibly irreversible,

for suffering for the right thing.

You make priorities for navigating through the thicks and thins in life,

and grow in the process,

… call it an investment for the future.

Priorities begets purpose.

Priorities demand attention.

Priorities demand sacrifice.

Priorities begets progress!

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Flowers

Published June 30, 2022 By 8ijay.shrestha
Matt Wills & Ellysse Mason – Perfect

It makes sense.

Don’t gift flowers.

Perhaps, a pot with a flower will do.

Namaste.

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I am here

Published June 23, 2022 By 8ijay.shrestha

Just Show Up ~ Anonymous

everytime we fall – noui

It’s been two weeks I’ve not written a word.

This might come as an excuse but I honestly was exhausted because of the exams and other in-between errands here and there.

I don’t know why my right leg is paining so much. Perhaps, like solution said it might be an aftermath of the swimming that we did on the weekend. I don’t know.

Well, I’m well aware of the philosophy of ‘Showing up’.

So here I am!

I am here.

Exhausted.

Excited!

Beaten up.

Lost.

Hopeful!

Confused.

Afraid.

Brave!

Namaste!

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Marriage

Published June 2, 2022 By Bijay Shrestha

What do you do when you get married? You take someone who’s just as useless and horrible as you are, and then you shackle yourself to them.

Jordan B. Peterson
Emilioats – Youth

“Marriage is not — a contract. Marriage is not — abiding by my some protocols or laws or rules. Fulfilling relationship or marriage is at least not about — saying, If you have this, this, this quality, or If you do this, that, this stuff, or even faintly borrowing the belief that your partner has to be exactly like that ‘kind of person’ (a metaphorical template in your head) or that your partner can’t be flawed.. That’s not marriage and that barely looks like a joyful relationship. It’s a disaster.

More so often, we tend to believe that successful marriages are ones where we are comfortable all the times. No! Matter of fact, borrowing it from Jordan B. Peterson, he says,

“…successful relationships are all about creating a space where the boundaries are clearly defined, and each partner can trust the other to be completely open about their thoughts, feelings, and experiences.”

Marriage, is trust.

Marriage is a commitment to not lie, no matter how acidic it is.

Marriage is not hiding a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g in the fog.

Marriage is genuine respect.

Marriage is building each other.

Marriage is supporting one another.

Marriage is acknowledging the dispute and trying best to resolve them with grace and openness.

Marriage is equal partnership. 100% his, and 100% yours! [Yes, she shared me this link,, and it makes total sense.]

Marriage is absolute transparency.

Marriage is a reliable, comfortable couch.

Marriage is freedom! Freedom to seek freedom. Freedom to ask for freedom. Freedom to be free. Freedom to be ‘you’ without judgement, without-a-question!

Marriage is so many things, but there are thing that sits at the core (for me personally),

— it’s respectful communication

— it’s friendship

— it’s ‘having a good senses of humor’.

— it’s a pure vow to remain a team!

Namaste.

p.s. Bonus song here.

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