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The Disappearing Body Consider for a moment that you are not what you think you are. You believe you are a solid thing. A person. A body that walks, eats, breathes, and will one day die. This seems obvious. This seems beyond question. But let us question it anyway. Let us take your body apart. Not violently. Gently. Piece by piece, layer by layer, until there is nothing left to hold onto. --- The Body You Call Yours Look down at yourself. Your arms. Your legs. Your chest. Your stomach. Solid flesh, you think. Real. Tangible. But everything you see is in constant motion. Your heart is pumping. Your lungs are expanding. Your cells are dividing, dying, being replaced. Even your bones, which feel so permanent, are breaking down and rebuilding themselves every single day. You are not a solid object. You are a process. A river of replacing parts. A temporary shape that matter keeps flowing through. Now let us follow that matter inward. --- The Meals You Have Eaten Every part of your body was...

I don't know why. I walk into a room. I see a face. Something in me turns. Not slowly. All at once. A shutter closing. A door locking. A voice that does not speak but knows. Reject. Stay away. Do not engage. Eighty percent. Maybe more. The faces blur into a crowd of something I cannot name. Asshole. Maniac. Egotist. The words come before I can stop them. Not spoken. Felt. A wave of aversion so strong it almost knocks me back. I used to feel guilty. Who am I to judge? What gives me the right to reject someone before they have said a single word? I thought I was broken. I thought the problem was me. I thought I needed to fix myself. To be more open. More accepting. More loving. Then I ignored the feeling. I went close to a few of them. The ones my body rejected at first sight. I gave them a chance. I told myself I was being unfair. I told myself everyone deserves to be seen. I learned the hard way. They were exactly what my body knew they were. Assholes. Built of asshole stuff. Every...

For the weak hearted. This is not for you, the successful corporate climbing the ladder with your eyes on the next rung. This is not for you, the hard core politician measuring your power in votes and fear. This is not for you, the focused high paid doctor who has traded your humanity for a specialty. This is not for you, the knowledgeable PhD holder who has mistaken information for wisdom. This is not for you, the proficient writer who has learned to arrange words but forgotten how to bleed. This is not for you, the singer with the sweetest voice whose songs have never once cracked with real pain. This is not for the great and the privileged. This is not for the preachers and gurus. This is not for the status quo. This is for you. Not because you have suffered everything bad in this universe. Not because you had lonely sleepless nights and restless days. Not because you slept hungry. Not because you were ignored, blamed, stumbled upon. Not because you are an underdog. Not because you ...

Give up. Everyone says the opposite. Don't give up. Don't quit. Fight the battle. Hold the line. Push through. They have turned struggle into a religion and exhaustion into a virtue. They have convinced you that the clenched fist is the only respectable posture. That dropping your arms means losing. That surrender is for the weak. I say unto you. Give up. There is nothing you can do. Not because you are powerless. Because the fight you are fighting is not real. Look at your hands. Your fists are clenched. Your teeth are clenched. Your jaw is a vise. Your shoulders are up near your ears. Your nerves are stretched like rubber bands about to snap. You have been like this for years. Decades. Maybe your whole life. What is the point? You have to breathe out to take the next breath. You cannot hold your breath forever. The body will force you to release. That is not failure. That is physiology. The lungs empty. The diaphragm relaxes. The air leaves. Then and only then does new air en...

Delusion Is Reality! The world is not what you think it is. That table you see? Mostly empty space. That color red? Doesn't exist outside your brain. That solid ground beneath your feet? 99.9999% nothing. And yet you walk. You touch. You believe. What if I told you that delusion is not a bug in human perception — but the very thing we call reality? Let me take you on a journey through wave theory and quantum fields. --- The Illusion of Solid Here's something that sounds impossible but is actually physics. An atom is 99.9999% empty space. If you removed the empty space from every atom in your body, you would fit into a speck of dust smaller than a grain of salt. So why don't you fall through the floor? Because of electromagnetic forces. The electrons in your feet repel the electrons in the floor. You're not touching anything. You're floating, very slightly, above everything you think you're touching. Your entire experience of "solid" — the chair beneath...

2005. I was searching for easy money. Not because I was lazy. Because the nine to five felt like a slow death. Sitting in a chair. Watching a clock. Exchanging hours for rupees that disappeared before the next month arrived. There had to be another way. Something faster. Something that did not require a degree or a resume or a manager who looked at you like you were replaceable. I found the internet. Not the internet of today. The slower internet. The one that loaded in pieces. The one where you had to wait for images to resolve. But it had something the physical world did not. Listings. Claims. Promises. People writing from far away places about large quantities of gold. Private miners in and around Africa. Small operations. Local people. Men who had dug into the earth and found something precious and did not know how to sell it to the world. The price difference was huge. I do not remember the exact figures. But I remember the gap. What the miners wanted. What the buyers would pay. T...

Happiness Is Not Equal to Dopamine We have been sold a lie. The lie says: feel good = be happy. More pleasure = more happiness. Chase the dopamine = chase the life. Scrolling feels good. Buying feels good. Sugar feels good. Validation feels good. A new purchase feels good. A liked photo feels good. A notification feels good. But feeling good is not the same as being happy. And confusing the two is why so many of us feel exhausted, empty, and hungry for something we can't name — even when we're constantly consuming things that should make us "feel good." Let me explain. --- What Dopamine Actually Is Dopamine is not a happiness chemical. That's a myth repeated by influencers who have never read a neuroscience paper. Here's what dopamine actually does: it drives wanting, not liking. Dopamine is released when you anticipate a reward, not necessarily when you receive it. It's the chemical of more. It's the chemical of next. It's the chemical of not yet ...

The Psychology of Now: Why Your Brain Fights the Present Moment You've heard it a thousand times: live in the present moment. Be here now. The power of now. But no one explains why it's so difficult. No one tells you that your brain is literally wired to escape the present. No one admits that "being present" feels uncomfortable, boring, or even scary for most people. Let's fix that. This post is not a spiritual lecture. This is psychology. This is why your mind runs away from now — and how to gently bring it back. --- Your Brain Is a Time Travel Machine Here's something surprising: the human brain is the only machine in the universe that can travel through time. Not physically, of course. But mentally? You do it constantly. Right now, you might be: · Replaying a conversation from last week (why did I say that?) · Imagining a conversation next week (what if they say no?) · Regretting a decision from five years ago · Worrying about a deadline that's still te...

I have never been a good man. Not by the standards of temples or holy books or the voices that live inside my head and tell me I am not enough. But I have tried, in my own broken way, to follow one rule. Not because I read it in a scripture. Because I learned it the hard way. From the other side. Do unto others what you want others to do unto you. Simple words. A child can say them. A child can understand them. But try living them. Try living them when you are angry, when you are tired, when someone has cut you off in traffic, when a colleague took credit for your work, when a friend did not show up when you needed them. The rule feels naive then. It feels like something only weak people follow. The strong take. The strong win. The strong look out for themselves. I have tried both. Being strong in that way. Hard. Closed. Pushing first so I would not get pushed. It worked for a while. Or I thought it did. But something shrinks inside you when you live like that. The space where kindness...

I was a studious teenager. The kind who did homework on time. The kind who sat in the front row. The kind who believed that if you followed the rules, the rules would reward you. Then college happened. And everything changed. I was fed up. Of school routines. Of uniforms. Of assemblies. Of teachers lecturing about things that had no connection to the life I saw outside the window. Lessons of no use. Maths that had no value. Algebraic equations that could not buy a cigarette. Derivatives that could not fill a stomach. Calculus that could not solve the only equation that mattered: how to survive. I joined engineering. And maths was still there. Core subject for the first few semesters. I was always bad at maths. Always hated it. The only maths I knew was the maths of the street corner. Two rupee cigarette. You give five rupees. You get back three. The commodity changes. The maths stays the same. That was my level. That was my limit. So I stopped trying. Joined the worst gang in class. Th...

I was living in an old rented house after college. Not the kind of house you show off. The kind you take because you have no money and no choice and three friends who are in the same boat. We were clearing pending exams. Away from home. Away from parents. Away from anything that resembled responsibility. The house was old. Traditional. Mud walls. Tiled roof. A bit big, actually, with ample space. In a city that was not mine, surrounded by people who were becoming family. There were three of us sharing the rent. Living in the house. My two housemates were from far cities. I was from somewhere else too. We were all away from home, trying to finish what we had started. We had a central hall. A sofa. A dim light that someone had probably installed thirty years ago. The light was perfect for a bar. Soft. Yellow. Forgiving. And we turned it into one. Almost every evening. Drinking. Singing. Pulling each other's legs. Chewing old college memories until they had no flavor left but we kept ...

I was twenty-two, maybe twenty-three. An age where the body still believes it is invincible and the mind still believes it will live forever. I was crazy about jungles. Not the neat, curated kind with benches and signboards. The real kind. The kind that does not care if you live or die. Kerala has those jungles. Tucked into the Western Ghats like secrets the earth has been keeping for millions of years. I explored a few of them. Not as a trained naturalist. Not as an adventurer with gear and guides. Just a young man with a wild heart and no sense of danger. Looking back, I do not know how I survived. Maybe the jungle knew I was harmless. Maybe it just tolerated me the way an elephant tolerates a bird on its back. The first thing you notice is the green. Not the green of a garden or a park. A green that swallows you. Thick. Humid. Alive. The canopy above blocks the sky in patches, letting through only coins of sunlight that fall on the forest floor like dropped gold. The air is heavy wi...