What makes you different?

To take out these experiments, accept the asymmetry of your emotions, your eccentricities, aspirations and thoughts for what they actually are. Instead of filtering it through the social system, recognize the difference and apply it in your life.

Don’t drink because everybody does today.

Otherwise, thank you for reading. It was fun writing to you all. Hope it helped you in more ways than one.

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I have always wanted to write things. Wrote poetry during my grad and reluctantly left it for preparation of a govt. exam because who’s got extra time for it.

Consider a rat who never came out of the hole fearing for his life. He stayed in the dark for years and died one day, unbeknownst.

Without experiments, is life worth it.

I’ve often wondered why fans aren’t deployed on GBBO during warm weather? I’ve seen too many desserts melt (and bakers too…). (I live in Pompano Beach and we try to use fans in lieu of AC as much as possible).

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” - Lao Tzu

Don’t choose to be an engineer just because it pays well.

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." - Oscar Wilde

Do humans know everything they need to know?

Even if that means disappointing your parents and teachers for some time, but believe you’ll eventually make them feel proud.

P.S. What’s your idea of being different? Do you have a different point of view?

Not because people show it off and you have to follow the lead.

What happens when your partner doesn't see the value in you and continuously hurts you by searching for something in others knowing it hurts you?

Everything has shaped me. Friends who gave me their pens and journals. Best friends I never made. Crush that made me write poems while he didn’t care. Romances I’ve missed. Opportunity to become an editor or a news correspondent I missed. I think all this has made me the writer I am.

Tried everything. A well-paying corporate job, govt. exams. Nothing provided me with security. I didn’t have time to myself. Hustling was my name. Didn’t go to parties, travel or anything. Didn’t talk to friends.

He would have experienced the miracle called light. Maybe he got better food to eat. Then he got wounded. Then in search of balm, he travaled to the wilderness and found a party of rats, eaten to its heart’s content and danced the night out.

How far back into your childhood can your remember and what is your favorite memory of that time?

Honestly, there’s nothing that makes ‘me’ different.

You can be fearful and still use it to tame your weaknesses and build your emotional strength.

Yes, I was not at all happy.

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Experiences: What has happened to me? Have I led a normal life with two parents and two siblings? Yes. Breakups I’ve had. Friends I’ve made. School I have attended. Guides I’ve met. Places I’ve been.

Don’t get a partner because you’re jealous of your friends.

Not ignoring emotions because they can be destructive. Not underestimating your aspirations because society calls them second-rate.

What causes tension between liberals and conservatives? Is it purely based on ideological differences or are there other factors at play?

I always yearned to go for government jobs because I had a few relatives already into it and doing well with money and security. And here is me, with an arts background, uncertain about what to choose.

I know being a writer is no different. But my journey is different. Its unique to me.

I am an ordinary human being with the same body structure as you who are reading, you and I have the same material of what our bodies and brains are made up of.

How come Taiwan is LGBT friendly, yet Japan and South Korea are not?

Do anything and everything because you like it. You love it. Do the things that make you go crazy. Things you’d barter your breath for. Things that make your life a rainbow.

What makes you YOU.

What if he’d come outside?

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If you’ve read this far, let me tell you one more thing.

Can you make it?

C’mon, it’s an opportunity to break the rules, stand out and become ONE of a kind.

So I’m getting piano lessons and my teacher wants me to get an upright piano instead of a keyboard. An upright piano is way above my price range, so what do I do? And what’s the difference between an upright piano and a keyboard?

You know how all of this enlightenment came to me.

So, what actually makes us all different?

Experiments: My life has been a group of experiments that failed to take off until I resorted to writing.

Why can't white people just surrender their white privilege?

All of it would have been different, and this life would mean something, at least for him.

Neither I’m Tesla, who got poor grades in school, nor I’ve grown to invent electric current that powers many electronic devices today. Nor I’m an entrepreneur who is the idea behind the Tesla cars.

Take my word. You won’t regret it.

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Don’t go to the gym because it’s a fitness fad.

So, keep on experimenting.

Being different is being okay with failure, so you know what the dessert of a win tastes like.

How would you feel if your friend confided in you that she is cheating on her husband, knowing that he loves her deeply? What emotional and ethical considerations would you grapple with in response to her revelation?

"Life is a journey, not a destination. Enjoy the ride." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Become different not according to the world, but according to what you like and what you don’t.

I experimented. A lot. And now I know I don't need more trials of this kind. I’m writing this today at just the right place from the comfort of my home while it rains outside. While a cold breeze rings music to my senses.

Anxious to get a job, I chose to do what was socially recommended for me. So, I tried. Being a govt. servant. Failed. A Research Scholar. Didn’t make it. A Professor. Guess what?

Long story short, here I am. Being a writer. Doing things I’d always love to do. Sharing my experiences of what I learnt.

Agree?

A govt. job could do it for me. Plus Money, plus security, plus prestige.

Until the day I choose to listen to myself. I let my subconscious go wherever it wanted me to go. It was not just in dreams I wanted to live, but in real life. Not allowing others to cloud my personality, my ability, my inclination towards philosophy, knack to motivate others, and my indifference towards others’ opinions.

Being different is being a mess, yet being okay with it.

Indeed, a number of other factors contribute to your uniqueness, but that’s for you to introspect.

Being different is being a weirdo. And being okay about it.