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Be Proud of Being Tired

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 Tiredness is often associated with a lack of enthusiasm in an individual. Here, I am not pointing out its definition. You’d rather see the Oxford Dictionary for that and not my opinion piece. You and I are here to revisit the approach of ‘getting tired’ in your workspace, life, sports, activity, creativity, or apparently – existing. Tiredness is pointed out as the limitation of a person. A point from where he or she cannot move or work or practice further. But isn’t it just the half-truth? Just the half-side? A person who is tired has used the upmost and utmost of his or her enthusiasm, energy and caliber. If you have pulled out your best moves, walked a mile extra, sung and rehearsed ten minutes more, or maybe burnt out your eyes through the Excel sheet for one round more, is it not obvious that you’d feel tired? Satisfied, of course. But tired? Definitely yes. However, tiredness is assumed not as a figure of appreciation. If someone admits that they are tired, we normally pi...

There is Nothing that is Called an Early Success

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 There is nothing that is called an early success. You have to begin early working on it. I have often contemplated over the last few months during my early 24s how I have not yet achieved anything in my music or writing career. And then look at these motivating and inspiring stars like Durjoy Dutta and Armaan Malik. They are already doing things they want. Earning from their passion and most importantly fulfilling the dreams of their parents and buying them everything they deserve. How astonishing! How focused them must have been right from the beginning. And here I am boiling milk in a bartan  and hoping that a miracle would do some kirtan! But, not that I am writing this to you is not because I am sad or at a state of contemplation. Remember I once said? Feel whatever you are feeling and let it pass. The more you hold back a feeling and resist it, the more it amplifies to raise delusions. I follow that.  My feeling of contemplation has passed and then it reckoned in my...