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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.

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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.

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Keep it right

Published June 13, 2024 By Bijay Shrestha

Quality of your thoughts determine the quality of your life.

James Allen (As a Man Thinketh, 1903)
Hozier – Too Sweet 

Food for thought and I need it more than anything in the world — specially around these pressing times.

On February 6, 1975 a wise man Mr. Spencer W. Kimball spoke on top of his lungs:

Keep it right — in your head.

Keep your thoughts. Good.

Not bad.

Keep your thoughts decent.

Not in-decent.

Keep your thoughts — full of faith.

And, not doubt

Because — it is in your thoughts that is determined whether you’ll be happy or unhappy, whether you’ll be healthy or unhealthy.

The happiest person is he who thinks the happiest, most interesting, f-i-n-e-s-t thoughts.

and that is a fact!

Namaste.

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Internet is a weird place

Published June 29, 2023 By 8ijay.shrestha

If I am what I have and if what I have is lost, who then am I?
Nobody but a defeated, deflated, pathetic testimony to a wrong way of living.

 Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5xZhcmPl-Q
Somebody Else – Vancouver Sleep Clinic,Amelia Magdalena,Pop Goes Ambient

We are constantly trying to push the narrative

that we are as happy as anyone could be

that we are enjoying this one grand life all the time, all the more

that we’ve been to places; seen places

that we’re wise or mostly pretend to be one

that we’re hunting, gathering and treasuring memories

that we’re pretty, handsome, beautiful and attention slash praise worthy

that we’re self-acclaimed celebrity

that we’ve figured it all out and caption them for other to get a piece of that shallow knowledge, shallow experience

that we have a perfect life

that we are somebody we are not.

Namaste.

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Acceptance

Published May 9, 2019 By Bijay Shrestha

Prateek Kuhad – Saansein

Anonymously generous, unmistakably mistaken to have even been born in the world of scavengers. And unfortunately misunderstood her whole life for her introvertedness.

Nobody asked her questions. Not a soul!

Everybody sure had answers though. The stories they tell themselves; stories about the stories they mic the world about her.

Can’t unsee, she’s tired of puppeting over everybody’s expectations.

Grinding. Grinding and grinding to find a tree she can take a dependable shelter on, fruit to share with and at last live a good enough life. A Simple life.

However, the swallowing nightmare perspires, and she’s dumb exhausted justifying her pure and genuine intentions to leave the world a litter better than she found it. In the likes of Mrs. Silence Dogood.

She bespeaks for lack of acceptance and empathy in our sophisticated world of self-serving, dumb intellects.

I reckon, she’s in search of a love. 

I reckon, she’s in search of a friend.

I reckon, Real love is acceptance.

I reckon, Real friendship is acceptance.

I hope you find her.

I hope you save her.

I hope you accept her.

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True love is a Friendship.

Published April 1, 2019 By Bijay Shrestha

Prateek Kuhad – cold/mess

Love is not an easy commitment.

The road ahead is dirt-wet, arduous, uncertain and messy.

Love, is hardly a marriage, not even a contract per se that bounded anybody,

There will be peaks and there will be valleys.

Despite. Despite, in a heartbeat I’ll travel with you until my journey ends!

 

Suffice to say — True love is a friendship. Period!

That If love were to be a living, breathing grown up ass like we all are, the heartbeats that we know, would be undoubtedly the acceptance element at the deepest core.

 

And, now to reframe this peeling off of love’s many faces and facets, a line from Cynthia Hand from her book Boundless clogs up my brain :-

“I wanted to tell you that wherever I am, whatever happens, I’ll always think of you, and the time we spent together, as my happiest time. I’d do it all over again, if I had the choice. No regrets.”

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