I talk about nothing in particular and everything too?

That's right it's another back to back post! Looking over what I've written in the past couple of weeks or so, I've written about some very abstract and indeed very deep ideas, ideas which require a lot of reflection and thinking to even understand at the most basic level. So I figured that I ought to talk about a much more practical aspect of both my life and the reader's life. Friends. Though now that I think of it friendships and their intricacies are just as thought-provoking and headache-inducing as the core philosophies Taoism and Zen Buddhism, maybe even more so. You'd think that making friends is something easy, something that a toddler could do, after all, it's one of the first social interactions that a person engages in, in their lifetime! And yet the complexities and dynamics of making friends and more importantly keeping friends evolve and morph over time and it can be hard to keep track of. As a person who's in their fifth school now, and h

Ever heard about the concept of Yin and Yang? It is an essential tenet of ancient Chinese Philosophy which stresses the concept of dualism. What is dualism then you may ask? Dualism is expressing two basic irreducible concepts which are separate and distinctly opposite to each other.  Taoism, one of the chief philosophical beliefs in Chinese culture, however, reasons that this difference between the two concepts is perceptual and not factual. Suddenly Good and Evil, Intelligent and Foolish, Loyalty and Betrayal are not as simple as they seem to be. I, once stated that as human beings we often simplify things to a great degree to come to terms with it, sometimes oversimplifying it to the point that it loses its true meaning. That is exactly what happens when we consider such concepts as mentioned above. One of the best examples of this is good and evil, What is good and what is evil really?  Man is a complex living breathing organism. No one is completely good or bad and yet we deem cer

I was in one of those pensive moods again today, thinking about all sorts of things, when I thought about what I was doing right then. I was thinking. It seems like I'm stating the obvious when I say that but one would be surprised to know the number of times we subconsciously do things. Our body is built to adapt and suit our very multifaceted needs, whether it be hiking the Himalayas or sitting at a desk job from 9-5 every day, our body gets the rhythm of things and optimizes how it works to align with your energy needs. One of the few things about our body that we do have almost full control of is our ability to think. I have always felt that our most underrated characteristic or feature as a species is the ability to think, to be conscious and to be able to communicate this with others of our kind and do meaningful actions. It's often taken for granted and that in my opinion is a great travesty.  Thinking is what got us here! All the modern amenities we use and can't to