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Wholesome notes

Published February 8, 2024 By Bijay Shrestha

We are never prepared for everything that would happen to us and everything that would not.
~ Musicpervs

^{David Kushner – Daylight}

The spot I’m in, right very now is not new to me. I’ve lived on edges before. I’ve been in uncomfortable situations before. Well, it won’t be wrong to say that this time I feel I have got thick skin to be afraid of outcomes that are out of my hands; to have fear out of expectancies.

But, It is also not that I wouldn’t love to feast on plenty of wholesome notes that’d help me keep my mind straight, focused, resilient, unafraid, undeterred. I’ve consolidated some of them for you as well. Have a wonderful day

What they did to you was not your fault.
You make the world a better place.
Keep shining bright, for the world needs your light.
I hope you know how loved you are.
There are no mistakes, only lessons…
Don’t forget why you started.
Happiness isn’t out there, it lies within you ..
Life is too short to spend it battling with yourself…
Whatever you’re going through right now, trust me, it will get better.
You didn’t change.., you evolved.
You are a perfect being 🙂
Just in case anyone hasn’t told you today. YOU MATTER 🙂
You still haven’t met all the people who are going to love you.
Someone out there feels better because you exist 🙂
Congratulations for all the silent Battles you’ve overcome 🙂
You still have plenty of time to figure things out …
Trust your Intuition …
The Universe made you uncomfortable so that you could grow ..
Go for it. Rejection you will forget, but a missed opportunity, you may regret forever …
Keep on shining your light, the world needs it 🙂
You already have everything you need …
Love the process, Without knowing the outcome 🙂
What if it worked out better than you ever expected?
Regardless of what’s happening, the world is beautiful … just like you are!
Have a beautiful day!
Your soul is a guiding light to those around you.
You are loved. You are not alone.
You are on the right path.
You have a great smile, you are worthy of love.
P.S. there’s someone who loves you!

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Namaste.

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Urgencies

Published January 18, 2024 By 8ijay.shrestha

“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
Seneca

^{Iron & Wine – Flightless Bird, American Mouth}

An uncle died this week. Purshottam Shrestha.

Took me back to one of those dark places. Again.

A place where tomorrow is not promised.

A place where the best you can say; a place where the wise thing to acknowledge is that no matter how brutal the day was — you still had the day regardless.

With the news, came the wave of ‘Urgencies’ rushing to the shore.

There’s no better time than today.

There’s no best day than this day.

Pritchett wisely put it,

Make your move before you’re ready!

I tell you where big dreams go to die.

They go to the Planning Place.

Getting ready place.

Ahh..

Preparing myself .. and it’s the biggest con job we work on ourselves.

There are so many bones in that Graveyard where people … It’s always something; There’s always going to be set of reasons to wait.

When you’re going to take the risk?

I hope my drive and aspirations are stagnant, static, saturated and still.

I hope I keep believing that life barely is a synchronous series of episodes and events but rather an open, white, empty canvas with welcoming un-expected brush stokes from no one but ourselves. Looking for ways to write it’s own meaning albeit not necessarily only the meaningful ones necessarily. But ephemerally. But, writing it anyway.

I hope I get tired but complain less.

I hope the man in me keeps believing, keeps saying, keeps encouraging me to live the best version of my life!

Namaste.

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Stories

Published September 21, 2023 By 8ijay.shrestha

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
Ryan Holiday

^{Cigarettes – David Kushner}

We all love stories. Don’t we?

In the like pretext, rarely have I met a person who doesn’t like movies.

For, movies move many stories and we can’t help but be captivated by their awe.

Personally, I believe stories have immense power.

We all ought to ‘authentically’ put one. Take it as one of our moral obligation.

Not only the highlight reality over social media. Not only the sugar. Not only the cream.

But both good and bad.

I was talking to my girlfriend about it as she’d ask why do you always have this strong urge to tickle the terrible days of the past; emphasize on the contrast you have with the present?

I said, i only tell stories. It’s upto the readers how they’d want to look at it.

I don’t have grip over their narrative and rightly so.

We risk nakedness.

We risk mis-interpretations.

We risk judgements.

Namaste.

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Coqueta SF

Published September 14, 2023 By Bijay Shrestha

Philosophy gives a way to life. Don’t let it come in a way of trying to live a gleeful life. Balance.
~ Musicpervs

^{Alex Yurkiv, Thelma Costolo – Take Me to the River (I Will Swim)}

Couple housekeeping: Paid off my student debt. New plans on the way. Dinner date after a while.

Over dinner date this evening, I and my girlfriend talked about trodding the path of lifeline with the end in mind.

I went in to explain her that either of us is going to outlive the other — only if we were not to get into an unfortunate, unimaginable accident together. Touchwood.

I also confronted her that secretly, I do enjoy her getting pissed off at me, for at least she has me who she can trust to vent off at, to get angry at and know things will fall back to normal when things have cooled off.

I told her we ought to learn to not take the other for granted and cherish our partnership; our moments of togetherness as well as the times we’d separate with kindness, care and utter delicacy.

I told her that I want to see and experience world, different culture, different stories. She shared all she wants in life is not to be bothered by anybody and live rest of her lives without pressure.

I also went on to tell her, that fundamentally all we’d ever crave for is one clean, full, deep breathe of fresh air, a food on the table, and few we love around us. I told her I don’t really see the point of being angry, being dissatisfied, even chasing things. Exception: Trying to be better than yesterday is a must.

In the due course, we clinked on our choices of red wine. Ate the spanish dishes we had never tried before. Bitched and buried one or two on our colorful, intense conversation. Most definitely savored the San Franciscan, Spanish culinary experience at ‘Coqueta SF’ to the fullest. Rode the Bay Wheel together, laughed a lot, lived a little more.

Namaste.

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Don’t. Miss. Anything.

Published September 7, 2023 By Bijay Shrestha

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.
—John Lennon.

^{Mumford & Sons – Ghosts That We Knew}

Jim Rohn in one of his famous speech went onto say,”

Something my parent taught me that they practiced all their life. Now I practice.

Don’t Miss Anything.

Don’t miss the game.

Don’t miss the concert.

Don’t miss the performance

Don’t miss the show

Don’t miss the conversation.

Don’t miss the sermon.

Don’t miss the class.

Don’t. Miss. Anything.

Go.

Look.

See.

Learn.

Try.

Taste.

(With gesture of hands, suggests)

Let that Flavor of life be part of your lifestyle.

Elton John sings, “She lived her life like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to, when the rain set in.”

What if you missed that?

See, that wouldn’t be good.

George Harrison used to sing before he died, “If not for you, the winter would hold no spring. Couldn’t hear a robin sing. I just wouldn’t have a clue if not for you.”

Again with meaningful gesture of hands re-iterates,

Go Taste.

Go Listen.

Go Enjoy.”

See, one thing is for certain.

Nobody is ever, never prepared for what is going to happen in our lives far into the future.

But the only guarantee that renders a glimmer of healthy hope, that this one time opportunity ‘life’ would eventually fold in a good enough episode is to actually plant, nurture and water the seeds of wisdom as it progresses.

Go explore Jim. He was the harbinger of a laying out his unique template for a practical, pragmatic and most importantly a good-enough life.

Namaste.

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Infodemic

Published August 17, 2023 By 8ijay.shrestha

“Almost everything we experience is a zero-sum game. Just, don’t take the wrong medicine for the wrong disease.”
~ Musicpervs

^{Tu Chodiyon Na – Ronit Vinta}

There is so much noise out there.

Almost everything we see and hear are a zero-sum game.

Almost everything cancels out each other.

So, is this bad?

Does this mean, we ought to just eat whatever we get our hands on, and learn from exclusive experience, and learn as truth unveils itself eventually?

Actually not.

The actualization and realization of this one fundamental facet of this infodemic era is in-and-itself a super power.

It calls for truth.

It call for not believing or giving in to things you’re exposed to, or influenced at will.

It calls for original thinking.

It calls for genuine curiosity and getting to the process of seeking truths and grooming and feasting over facts, facts and facts, and developing your ideas over those unfiltered, hardcore, for-real information.

Namaste.

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San Francisco. Solution.

Published August 3, 2023 By Bijay Shrestha

Impermanence is permanent.
Musicpervs

^{Vismay Patel – Dariya}

It’s been couple of weeks I’ve been out of instagram, facebook grid. I don’t know if I will ever be back. Although my X (formerly Twitter) usages has gone up.

Since Elon Musk took over X, residing in San Francisco and closely following his works, intentions and personality as a whole has personally made my life more purposeful.

San Francisco is not an easy city to live in. It is the 8th most expensive city in the world according to World Economic Forum but not without the grave problem.

In all sincerity, every-time I walk around the financial district, especially around the market street in the course of going towards my fitness center, or every-time I take a walk to the Ferry Building through Embarcadero, through Montgomery Street, every-time I take an Uber to go visit my best friend at El Cerrito; being able to afford all this, being able to have all of these experiences utterly enriches my heart. Not that this is the first time I’m saying I feel grateful to be living at this phase of my life. Yes, I’m grateful.

The center of it all, without-a-doubt is the ‘Solution’.

Sometimes I wonder, only had I not h.e.r in my life, how all of these was even a possibility.

Sometimes I wonder what if I lose her, that she leaves me on my own to be.

Sometimes I wonder what if I have to leave this city that I’ve fallen heads over heels with.

Namaste.

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Good egg, Bad egg

Published May 18, 2023 By 8ijay.shrestha

We all want to be ‘The Hero of our own story’.
~author

^{Patrick Watson – Je te laisserai des mots (Cover by Marianne BL}

Whenever possible, ask yourself –

Am I a good egg or the bad one?

Let the question guide you.

Let the question be your north.

Let the question help you earthen.

Let the question inspire you to soar.

Let the question, question your true utility in someone elses’ life other than yourself.

Let the question un-naked, un-burden, un-stress you.

Am I a good egg?

Namaste.

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Sad playlist

Published November 17, 2022 By 8ijay.shrestha

Grief begets Gratitude.
~author

^{Dean Lewis – How Do I Say Goodbye}

Two days ago, as I was walking to the gym (it’s a 23 minutes walk) I pulled up my phone, subscribed to Apple music impromptuly, and started listening to the sad playlist. Deliberately!

Not because I had a rough day.

Not because I had been going through a lot.

Not because I was hurt.

Not because I was sad.

Not because I was fucked!

It was solely and only because I wanted to synthesize sadness. Weird. I know.

Unpacking…

I wanted to soak in and soak myself with my forever friendemy — grief.

I wanted to step on the earth, again! Rest. Reflect. Re-calibrate.

Move. Shake.

For, it’s been a while I have been flying in perpetual happiness.

For, it’s been a while I had been living in a foggy, seemingly make-believe-world.

In a nutshell, I wanted to meditate on despair.

I wanted to refresh, relive, re-fill, re-feel my memories as far as my on-and-off relationship with sadness is concerned.

And, to say the least, sadness has always given me purpose.

Bonus — it’s okay to cry!

Namaste.

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