How Adversity Makes You Stronger, Even When It Doesn’t Feel That Way A rejection email rarely arrives at a convenient time. You open it between errands, perhaps, or just before dinner. A few polite sentences undo weeks of hoping. Then someone tells you it might be a blessing in disguise, and you have to resist Read more…
Arjun saw Naina’s name light up his phone for the fourth time as the train pulled away from Delhi. He turned the phone face down on the folding table beneath the window. Outside, porters and waving families gave way to evening sky as Delhi loosened its grip. The last thing Naina had said to him Read more…
How to Accept Yourself and Find Contentment in the Life You Have Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. Doris Mortman There is a quiet bargain many of us make with ourselves. We decide that we will finally be happy when something changes. When we earn Read more…
Long ago, in Rajpur, a town in Maharashtra, lived a man named Hazar-Marya. People rarely called him by any other name. The nickname had stuck years ago because of one strange habit he had developed. Every day, he would leave home and kill one thousand flies. That was all he did. He had no job, Read more…
How to Push Beyond Your Limits and Make the Impossible Possible The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke Most of us know what it feels like to stand at the edge of something unfamiliar and immediately begin listing Read more…
What If Passion Is Not the Problem? There is probably something you have been meaning to do for a while. Perhaps you want to start writing, learn to paint, apply for a different job, or turn an idea into a small business. You think about it now and then. You may even have a document Read more…
The wisdom hidden in an ordinary bag of flour You must bake with the flour you have. This Danish folk saying uses the language of the kitchen to express one of life’s most practical truths. We cannot always choose our circumstances, but we can choose what we create from them. A baker may wish for Read more…
Long ago, in the village of Pennagarai, there lived an old woman. Her house stood along a quiet road, and her life was simple. She owned very little—just a cock and a small chafing dish. Even so, she had become part of the village’s daily rhythm, though she did not notice it at first. Every Read more…
How to Let Go of Expectations Without Losing Hope Expectation is the root of all heartache. Most of us have lived through a moment that makes this line feel painfully true. We look forward to an occasion for weeks, only for it to fall flat. We trust someone to respond in a certain way, then Read more…
Living Without Regrets: The Secret to Staying Young Has Nothing to Do with Age A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. John Barrymore Living without regrets is one of those ideas that sounds simple until we stop and think about what it really means. Most of us associate ageing with Read more…
