3 Pros and Cons of Being an Employee

We all start with the kind of jobs where we get ready and go to the office and punch the card at the gate and sit in our respective places and do the small things while waiting for the coffee or tea. By the time the coffee or tea reaches you, it will be already 10:30 am, then you have to spend time till 12:50 pm so that you can go for lunch and be back by 2 pm. Which includes the small time for lunch and most time for talking about this and that. Then we settle down on the table with some work till then another round of coffee arrives at 3:30 or 4 pm. Then comes the wait to go back home, when it's 6 pm.

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What Habits Separate Unsuccessful People From Successful People?

Ah, I don’t have time for these things man! How do you do all of this?? Sounds like so many normal people who cannot achieve anything in life and settle for the regular life. These are the people who like to point out that they don’t have time to go to the gym or read that small book or something that they love. All they want to do is blame the time and not themselves for the things that they are not making the time for. They can sleep for hours but cannot give a little time for the good things.

5 Tips For A Better Life And A Better Career

As soon as we turn 20, we get labelled as grown-ups by our family and friends. According to the society, you become a man, eligible to start a family and take your own judgments.

3 Things We All Can Learn From Traffic Lights

If you want to learn good things, you will find even the smallest things to learn from like the above heading says. It is the most common place where we get to see all kinds of actions. It is up to you how much you watch and learn from these simple things.

A Glimpse Into The Life of an Indian Girl

In the world of equal right and feminism slogan, the girls are yet discriminated a lot, be it any place. In the modern era of western culture, the girls are not allowed to embrace it. They are being mocked for their clothes, body shamed, commented on for the way they carry themselves. But the worst of all they are not respected. They are still stuck in the shackles of patriarchy society.

The Most Overlooked Secret to Dealing with Life's Problems

PROBLEM; the word itself is a big problem as no one knows what exactly it is. Well in simple words; it is something that is defined as the situations in which we experience uncertainty or difficulty in achieving what we want to achieve.

One Habit We All Need To Change

Oh no! Wait, reader! Before you pick up the ball and run with it (and I am labeled as the ‘international habits hater’, I humbly beg you to give me a chance. I am not questioning the worth of habits. And I completely believe Jack Hodge when he says, “Habits are important. Up to 90 percent of our everyday behaviour is based on habit. Nearly all of what we do each day, every day, is simply habit. ” All I am (trying) to say is that just that it is essential to have certain life-making habits (in order to succeed), it is absolutely essential to kill some life-breaking habits (or they will trap us into a whirlpool of misery). So, let’s come to this point of habits that are holding us down.

3 Ways To Keep Yourself Sane

Oh yes. You read that right. In a world that claims that “everybody in the society is as deranged as you are”, I am choosing to write an article on how to keep yourself sane. And yes, I would not disagree with Susan Sontag’s words stating, “Sanity is a cozy lie.”

India's Perception Towards Different Sexualities

In our country, it is frowned upon to talk about sex. Anything related to sex is something that we shouldn’t discuss or whisper about. Being the citizen of a country, which is in the competition to hog the #1 place in the population run, it seems to be a strange thing, for sure! A place where ‘Kamasutra’ originated from, it is considered a taboo.

4 Simple Steps to Lead a Healthy Life

Health is wealth. This is particularly right. If your health is not firm and strong, you can’t work for hours, or enjoy yourself or spent time with friends and family. So, there’s nothing as important as being healthy.

Politics And Today's Indian Youth, Lacking in Zeal

“Politics is everywhere”

Yes, politics is everywhere. It is an undeniable fact. Politics is an integral part of human society. We are dependent as well as independent. But it depends upon our perspectives. According to me, we are independently dependent. However, here my intention is not to create controversies. Although politics is a universal term, I want to highlight today’s youths’ spirit of nurturing political consciousness in the context of India.

Concerns of an Open-Minded and Over-Friendly Woman

Are you the kind of a person who in a matter of seconds start talking a mile a minute to a stranger? 

Or someone who doesn’t mind talking about anything or everything? You get friendly with just about to everyone and maybe sometimes over friendly! Yeah, being a woman who is open minded as well as over friendly has it’s downsizing for us.

How To Always Stay Motivated

Motivation is something which is an impulsive action meant to ignite or initiate a particular task or behave in a manner that helps you achieve your goals that you have set for yourself.

How to stop comparing your life to others

Comparison is the one thing that we should strictly stay away from, yet it is the one thing that we end up doing the most. The reason why the comparison is so deadly is because it is solely being done within our heads and hence our imagination can spin it out of control. Here are a few things that you should do to stop comparing yourself to others:

What is Body Positivity and why is it important?

I am your average person, but I'm also fat. And that shouldn't change who I am but, of course, it does.

I was taught to be ashamed of my tummy rolls, to hide the stretch marks from the countless times I've lost pounds- and then put back on- with a fad diet, to not wear clothes that show more than an inch of skin, and eventually to avoid social contact just because I'd rather be by myself than face what my body is. Not because I was unattractive in my eyes, but because people would disapprove.

I was called hippo, elephant, fatty, I was laughed at, yelled at, mocked by everyone, including my mother, who is, by definition, supposed to love me unconditionally.

I was poked and prodded with needles, from the countless blood tests and scans I've been subjected to, because no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't drop a few. Only to find everything to be normal.

I have spent countless sleepless nights thinking what was wrong with me, feeling worthless, thinking nothing I did would ever get noticed because "I'm not easy on the eyes".

I feared to get on a weighing scale not because I was afraid of the number I would see, but because of the disapproving looks.

I am your average person. But I'm also skinny. And that shouldn't change who I am but, if course, it does.

I was taught to be ashamed of my ribcage jutting out from my sides, to not wear clothes that show too much skin and eventually to avoid people altogether just because I'd rather be alone than face what my body is. Not because I was unattractive in my eyes, but because people would disapprove.

I have been told to eat, put on some weight, that I was all bone, called malnourished, mocked for never gaining weight despite the fact that I eat food. Nobody believes me when I say I enjoy eating.

I've been poked and prodded with needles, from the countless blood tests and scans I've been subjected to, because no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't keep the weight on.

I've been force-fed for as long as I can remember, weight gainer powders that don't even work, decorate my kitchen shelves.

I have spent countless sleepless nights thinking what was wrong with me, feeling worthless, thinking nothing I did would ever get noticed because "I'm not easy on the eyes".

I am you. You are me.

We've all had a struggle. If you're not making it better, you're making it worse.

Remember that before you tell an overweight person that they've lost weight, or that you can see the bones on someone's arm.

Not to discourage them from dropping the extra pounds, or because their health and overall well-being isn't important, but because their outward appearance doesn't make them any less perfect.

Body positivity isn't a radical movement, it's what should be normal. It comes from within. Body positivity is for everyone, every body type. Your scars, stretch marks and bone lines are tiger stripes.

Every body is a bikini body, every body deserves to be accepted. Every body is beautiful.

Because, my dear, what really deserves to be seen is the mind you strove to be.

Written by Jyotsna Shiv Kumar

Eater of the cupcakes. Art nerd. Lov...er, reeeally liker of psychological horror novels. Your friendly neighborhood tumblr expert.