What do we need to be happy?
What do we need to be happy? A good question. We all pursue happiness, but happiness may be different from one person to the other person. Is there any universal factor that makes people happier? If so, what is it? As I did some research, I found out that it says there are 14 things that make you happy. John Lennon famously said, “When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment,…
Looking back in 2020: A Year of Challenges and Gratitude
As the year 2020 ends, we may find ourselves looking back to all the events that have happened around us. Many of us wait for better days to come, for grander years to embrace. We endure only on the premise that we have to keep looking and moving forward until those better days are at our doorstep. Good and bad things have happened. Even though for some, a lot of unfortunate were shown, it’s still what made us who we are in the end. You would probably agree when I say that 2020 has become a sh*tstorm full of disappointments, bad news, and an unending wave of problems that came…
Finding Yourself: An Essential Journey To Self-Discovery
I am so delighted to share with you this long-awaited collaboration with one of my favorite bloggers, Ashley of Beautiful Disaster Lit blog. Ashley is one of the most authentic and badass bloggers I truthfully admire, and who writes strongly about what she believes in. Do check out her blog here! Smoking to some local strain, and listening to Lauv’s I Like Me Better this night, I am writing about Finding Yourself. To tell you honestly, I got nothing at first. Then one day, during this one meditation period, I kind of surprisingly asked myself “What is my purpose?” Believe it or not, this one question got me typing this…
How To Mindfully Deal With Setbacks In Your Life
I have recently been asked how I deal with my setbacks in life, and I thought, before, those pretty much made a mess out of me. I was (and still am) the kind of person who easily gets discouraged and demotivated. And so, experiencing setbacks, whether in my studies or passions, was a huge challenge for me to overcome. Related Post: Overcoming Difficulties in Life: A Collaboration As an undergraduate student and a blogger, most of the problems I encountered were either related to academic situations or blogging. Having experienced those misfortunes, I always blamed myself for not doing better beforehand. I indulge in thoughts about “what could have happened”…
7 Misconceptions About Happiness You Should Definitely Know
Happiness. A word that everyone seems to be talking about these days. Over years, we have been taught about a lot of things that they say can make us happy. But most of them turned out to be misconceptions that we often overlook. Undeniably, this word has covered a lot of meaning throughout time. Since the ancient Greeks, happiness is attempted to be described, taping it with the word eudaimonia which means “to live well”. In an article I’ve read, modern science looks at happiness to be related to hedonism— the pursuit of pleasure. Moreover, science has established this certain concept surrounding the word, which gave birth to terms like…
Reaching out: How to Ask For Help?
I’m very psyched to share with you this collaboration post from me and Khizer of ReasonsToLiveFor. He writes and makes meaningful posts to help others too, and I’m very excited because this is our first-ever collaboration, and hopefully many more to come! Moving on, this is a very sensitive topic about asking for help. We hope that you read this throughout, especially if you are one of those who find it difficult to reach out to other people and ask them for help. We get that we all need some support in everything that we do; support from our family, our friends, and our loved ones. But sometimes, even if…
Why Cutting Off People Isn’t The Best Way To Live a Happy Life
We have been hearing and reading a lot of things around the topic of self-care, finding happiness, or ways to live a happy life. There are just so many ways you can improve your own, without having to make an effort too much, and it has become as easy as ignoring those people who can’t benefit you or your happiness. Why is that? Maybe we’re just too afraid to get in touch with the negative energy that comes from those difficult people so we decide not to be around them anymore. The thing is, we are so eager to find an easy way towards living a happy life, that we…
7 Signs You Shouldn’t Date That Person
I’m very excited to share with you this new post. A lot of us are working our way off to become independent men and women (while low-key looking for the perfect relationship), and that’s okay! Getting up for ourselves should be our number one priority. While we go on a lot of dating apps, meet-ups, or maybe simple get-to-knows, how do we know if we are with the right person? What are the signs that say you shouldn’t date that person? Are you familiar with the words Red Flag? Red flag is an idiomatic term widely known as a sign that a particular issue must be addressed. Its use is…
