Are you listening to your symphony?

September 1, 2022September 1, 2022 | The Ikiguy

As I am washing the dishes, consciously, watching and observing each movement my hand makes, a thought comes to my mind, ‘Doesn’t life actually pass very slow?’

If your presence is there at each touch of your fingertip, and you can feel the varying sensation of each breath you take, don’t you think that life actually flows calmly?

In our race against time, we forget to live, we just function by default, controlled by our set patterns of thoughts and habits. We fail to be in the moment.

We just exist as if a song is on repeat with no one listening, it keeps on playing throughout our lives and we miss out on the beautiful melody that has been playing for a long time.

But again, when you are entirely in the present, you observe that time flows much slower, may because you can feel each musical note as it rises and falls, maybe because you notice the change in timbre or attenuation in the tones.

It makes me come back to the same question that few conscious humans of entire mankind, have been asking,’ Is life worth living?’, assuming that we shall return back to nothingness, just as we were born of nothingness.

It is funny to see the irony, if you are unconscious you overlook the symphony playing, on the other side when you are conscious enough to feel each beat, you think about whether it is worth living for.

Maybe it all depends on the song we are playing.

If we like the song we may hum, or tap to the beat of it. But again, you can’t always do the things you love, right? Inevitably, you will have to perform mundane, dry tasks which you don’t enjoy much, but have to do for the sake of living.

Since, we don’t have the power to control the playlists, as in life, we can just request to the one playing it, we have to bear both sides of it, relish things which we adore, and endure the ones which we don’t.

And you have the choice to do this only when you do something – ‘

Being completely in the present and listening to the melody.’

But again, what do you think, are you listening to the symphony?

Yours Only,
Dinesh Raja,
The one who questions.

The White Coat is our comfort zone, isn’t it?

June 20, 2022 | The Ikiguy

When you lay back, and remove your doctor’s coat, you realise that comfortable warmness wearing down. And you miss it, consciously or unconsciously.

As much as we deserve the respect and pat-on-the-back, we have been too habituated in seeking them, and we don’t even realise it.

It is as if, when we go out there, in the open society, when we look unto the eyes of fellow humans on our right side, we expect them to bow down and a give us that single look which says it all.

Like we yearn for people to give us appreciation and tell us how much they are grateful to us. On a basic level, it is very valid, considering the work, and the sacrifice we make. But what I feel is we go wrong, when we are misguided and attach it to our ego.

I may be completely wrong when I pen down this.
But as a spectator, seeing from both the eyes of a layman and a medico, this comes to me.

I feel, as if, on a spiritual level, we have become an ego-feeding-machine-cum-healer.

Oh,
my dear comrades of medicine,
what do you think?
What are your views?

Yours Only,
Dr Dinesh Raja,
The Wild Thinker.
June 20, 2022

If leaving the campus doesn’t make you cry, you haven’t lived a college life

April 21, 2022April 21, 2022 | The Ikiguy

It is as if we were all baby birds chirping cheerfully yesterday, then tomorrow we need to pack up our back and fly out of our home, our college; unto an unknown, strange sky.

When you hit the first step here, the trees greet you with their gentle rustling.

When you take a breath here, the breeze swells you up with warmth.

When you look up, the stars are showering their protective spells upon you.

When you try to find your way, the signage by the road, find you and guides you.

When you enter the hostel, the walls welcome you with a hug.

When you get into your room, she snuggles you up and sings you a lullaby.

When you eat in the canteen, the simple poha puts a smile on your face.

When you sleep late, your roommate’s alarm wakes you up.

When you walk towards the lecture halls, the ancient benches calm your heart down.

When the professor comes up, you feel like a Wizard, Harry potter yourself.

When you do your first night out, even the warden yells, ‘get out, and your buddies cheer you up aloud.

When you try the first things, you realise, how much you act like stupid beings.

When you have late-night talks, nothing compares to it, with a walk

When you propose, that’s when your life gets its course.

When you fall in love, poor soul, in the hell you dove.

When your heart is broken, your friends make sure something else too.

When you pass out, bless the soul, which cleans your lot.

When the exams are prime, the sleep is forsaken for another time.

When you are done with the last year, you wish for just one more year.

When you enter the hospital, you feel like an adult already.

When you live like an intern, you feel like a helpless, naive kitten.

When you graduate, you realise that it is getting real.

When your juniors give you farewell, you feel the big brother flowing out of you.

When you chill in the evenings, you realise, you are going to miss these innings.

When you are on the terrace, the city drenched in the cold night gives you a kiss.

When you leave the campus, you feel like you are leaving your own mother.

When you have to get up and move out, you feel like somebody is dragging you, from her soothing lap, away.

When you finally start to fly, that’s when you realise, she was nursing you all these times.
And,
You can never go back.
Ever.

Yours Only,
Dinesh Raja,
The one who feels.

Why do we need to marry?

April 10, 2022April 11, 2022 | The Ikiguy

Why do we need to marry?

Why can’t we simply exist and live in the world?

Is Marriage
really
a
need?
Or is it something that the society has made it,
marketed it well and
brainwashed us into believing it to be.

If love is your answer;
Why can’t we love all?
Why can’t we love our loved ones the way we love our special ones.
Why can’t we do that?

If kids are your answer;
Why can’t we simply have a collective nursery; Wherein, each child there is yours and is not.
Yet you love and care for them.
Or better, do we need really need to tie down, two humans, to raise a child?

If Intimacy is your answer;
Why can’t we be intimate with people we like and love.
Why do we restrict ourselves to just a single person throughout our lives?

If Money/Security is your answer;
Are we so much selfish that we are ready to live a life with someone who we don’t love but like their status or the safety which they offer?
Or are we being dumb here?

If Companionship is your answer;
In this transient world of hyper-connectiveness, why can’t we develop a strong bond of pure energy that stays unbreakable, no matter what?
Why can’t we have companionship with other hoomans as well?

If Making love is your answer;
Why can’t we make love to the many loved ones cherish?
Why does it have to be pure, animal-like, stinking of just pure flesh?
Mind you, I am not here talking about lust.
I am talking about the expression of a pure form of love through making love.
Why can’t we cuddle other than the one?
Why can’t we snuggle other than the knotted person?
Why can’t we freely express our love through our bodies?

Do we really require chains to love and to be loved?
Do we need cages to be selectively made love to?

Who started all of this anyway?
And why are all of us believing in it so blindly, so diligently?

Why is it that to even question this, we become frightful, fall into the forever abyss of self-doubt, and wondering is something wrong with ourselves?

Why don’t we have a free society where we can question anything and everything?

Coming back to the topic at hand.

Aren’t we too much harsh, to expect everything above mentioned
from

JUST A SINGLE HUMAN BEING.

What happens if your partner doesn’t or let’s say, CAN’T provide you on a platter all the dishes you just ordered?
Be it his/her own will or shortcomings or no fault of her own.
What if she simply can’t provide you with that, why are we so harsh on them?
Why do we behave so evil to them?

No human is holistically developed. Every man has his own natural and acquired mistakes.

In the first place, Why do we EXPECT so MUCH from a SINGLE HUMAN BEING?
Why do we DEMAND so much from a SINGLE RELATIONSHIP?

Why can’t we have multiple loved ones?
Why can’t we have different humans for the same?

Do we really need to settle with just a single one?

By
Anonymous,
The One who sees, listens, feels everything,
And then questions them.

Passion vs Profession

April 7, 2022April 7, 2022 | The Ikiguy

Is your life precious to you, if yes, in what things would you like to invest this precious life into?

Questions to ask yourself

Do you love what you do every day?
Do you have dreams and aspirations to do something else?
What energizes you?

What can I do today that energises me?

How to spot your passion?

Energy.
What is that thing, which energises your mind, body and soul?
If it energises you, that’s your passion.

Passions where there is MONEY!
Baker
Investor
Cooking

“History is made not by intelligent people but by the few crazy ones.”

Passions where it is difficult to make MONEY! [Not at all impossible tho!!!!]
Writer
Dancer
Actor
Cricketer

Need some motivation for Passion?!?

My fav part is definitely at 9.54mins!!! He’s awe-inspiring and down to earth 🙂 RIP Kobe san

What are different types of passions?

Why people choose profession over passion

Fear.
Fear of not making it. Fear of the unknown.

Money.
Too risky to make a living out of it?

How to convert passion into profession?

Does your passion help in solving problems out there?
Fuse your passion with problem statement into a sustainable business model.

Money.
Find a way to monetise your passion.

“We have been accustomed to the habit of purchasing and consuming readymade or prescribed decisions that have been practising since a long time.”
On ‘Going with the Flow.’

Factors to consider

Age
When you are young, you have greater appetite of taking risks.

Responsibility
When one has obligations it becomes difficult to navigate through passion, since we live in a Real world with Real needs. Nevertheless, it is never IMPOSSIBLE.

Money
People usually prefer well paying,safe jobs over risky passionful dreams.
It is a very big limiting factor when it comes to pursuing your dreams.

Threats to Passion.

Inability to market skills.
Inability to convert Passion to Profession.

Some Excellent advice.
“If your passion is not monetisable, don’t just do only passion. Work a job as well for the money with following your heart.” – Chetan Bhagat, Author.

Buzz words

References.

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For those who love to watch!!!

Disclaimer
All the credits, rights, and content belongs to the author, publisher or company.
This is an honest review and learning article.
All the ideas, and phrases are duly credited to the author.
This post is not meant to hurt anybody’s feelings, or sentiments.
This article was made so as to facilitate the greatness of learnings which can be gained.

why you should start using the notion?

April 3, 2022April 3, 2022 | The Ikiguy

What is Notion?
Notion is a project management and note-taking software. ¹

Uses

What can you do with it?

Notes
Knowledge base
Docs
Tasks
Databases
Projects

For People.
The software is an all-in-one workspace for note-taking, knowledge and data management, and project and task management. ¹

For Companies.
Notion is a software designed to help members of a company or organization coordinate deadlines, objectives, and assignments for the sake of efficiency and productivity.

Check these Videos to get going!

Pricing.
Notion has a four-tiered subscription model: free, personal, team, and enterprise.¹

My Experience with Notion.
Day 1:
This is 22nd March 2022, I have been urged to use Notion by my close friend, Parth, so with a blank slate, here I come.

Day 12:
I am absolutely loving it!
I am super happy with the notion.
I have decluttered everything from Google keep to the notion now.
Let’s see what I say on Day 50 and Day 100!

Happie Realisations.

After going through Daniel Titchener‘s incredible video, I have new profound respect for all the YouTubers and Content Creators out there.
The snap above just gives a li’l glimpse of the amount of work they put in to showcase their content.

To hear the other side of the story, read these:

Why you shouldn’t use the Notion?

3 Reasons Why I Don’t Use Notion
Why You Should Be Careful With the Info You Put on Notion

References

Disclaimer
All the credits, rights, and content belongs to the author, publisher or company.
This is an honest review and learning article.
All the ideas, and phrases are duly credited to the author.
This post is not meant to hurt anybody’s feelings, or sentiments.
This article was made so as to facilitate the greatness of learnings which can be gained.

Like it happened yesterday

April 2, 2022 | The Ikiguy

By Ravinder Singh

Genre: Fiction, Romance.
Stars: 6.5/10

Summary

It’s a fictional story of a simple Sikh boy named Ravin Singh navigating his life through childhood and adulthood struggling through his teenage crisis to economic constraints and reminiscing the best moments of his life.

Pros

I like his simple writing style which is easy to understand and connect to.

At various junctures, the author has beautifully captured the raw emotions of a naive kid, an example of how he hated his daddy when he was left all alone for the first time at kindergarten and innocently asked his mum how do babies come?!

I especially appreciate the way he has included even the gory aspects of growing up that as sexual & Physical abuse.

Cons

I was disappointed at times when the writing style became awfully simple to the extent that it got a little irritating.

I feel like this book was particularly weak In the area of character development of the protagonist.

Overall, it’s a nice simple easy book to read and have fun

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to start reading and wants an
unsophisticated
language.

Yours only,
Dinesh Raja,
A Dreamer.

Disclaimer
All the credits, rights, and content belong to the author, publisher or company.
This is an honest review and learning article.
All the ideas, and phrases is duly credited to the author.
This post is not meant to hurt anybody’s feelings, or sentiments.
This article was made so as to facilitate the greatness of learnings which can be gained.

When the true moon shines.

February 16, 2022February 16, 2022 | The Ikiguy

Everyone talks about love, why doesn’t anyone talk about Heartbreaks?

Let us normalise talking about heartaches.

WHY IS 1ST LOVE DIFFICULT TO UNLOVE?

It’s just when you realize that CSK is going to win the match with 1 ball and puny 2 runs to win
And a traumatic wicket gets lost,
The observer keeps on counting the broken heart pieces just hitherto Pi’s value is reached.

On similar lines, as intoxicating Pehla Nasha is, so is equally the excruciating pehla Hamdard is.

Maybe because when it’s the first time, you genuinely feel, insecurely ponder, innocently wish,
Yes, this is it.
This is what true love feels like.

And when the Guileless
Glass Taj Mahal is broken into millions of prism shattering sept colour, the life becomes too colourless to survive.
To breathe.

The gullible feelings never truly leaves, for just like the waves it loves to keep returning and robs away the granular sanity, gleefully torturing the shores for five eternities.

After sustained atonement for falling and diving into love,
Your body regrets to host such a soul, your brain determines the world is conspiring against you, the mind wonders what evil it had done, that this sorrow is bestowed upon me while the heart is shivering,
It’s hopeful yet afraid of ever finding true love again
if it truly exists.

The Body requests it’s occupant,
Please, O, Please my lord,
Go and hide, my master, for I can see the future no more.
Give me some grains of poppy or better, full ale of it
My lord I will believe our time has come, let’s go and finally sleep on the merciful lap of our holy mother.

The Brain advises, fear not my fellow,
I will give my best,
I will strive my everything not to ever let you make the same godforsaken mistake again.
I will always be on guard,
for now,
I have seen how treacherous a harmless Lily can be.

And mind speaks up,
Fear not oh my heart,. you have felt what true love is,
Carry on,
Walk along the Destined path,
For you don’t know b when you stumble upon a Kohinoor while weeping over a lost pearl.

Heart finally talks to itself.
The past is definitely Beautiful and I’m glad that love happened,
If it was written, that it may happen this way, so be it.

I have got no Regrets,
For I have now known the happiness of true love,
I have come to the realisation,
All the time I was weeping in the forlorn corner,
I serve a much bigger role as the instruments of the one up above,
For my purpose would be to spread,
Seamlessly, Indifferently, Unconditionally,
The bliss of eternal love around me.

Yet, I have this youthful craziness to jump again,
Into the depths of the marooned sea,
If ever the true moon shines,
When the true moon shines.

If it shines.

Yours Only, Dinesh Raja, a Romantic of Zindagi.

Top 10 reasons Why you should fast!?

February 16, 2022April 5, 2022 | The Ikiguy

To Fast or to not to?

In today’s Fast-paced life, Fasting is limited to Dieting.
But is true?
Fasting has been in humanity’s food pattern for millennia.
It is an integral part of almost all major religions and cultures right from Hinduism to Judaism.
In this information era, it has become a fad, something trendy, but is it worth it?

Let’s check it out, the Top 10 reasons Why you should fast!?

On Body

Increases Longevity.
There are delayed ageing effects.

2. Blood Sugar Control
How? Decreases Insulin Resistance. ¹

3. Fights inflammation.
In Chronic inflammatory conditions such as ARTHRITIS, heart disease, cancer, and multiple sclerosis.

4. Good for the heart.
Lowers cholesterol levels.

5. Boosts Brain function
It helps the brain function better and in taking care of its structure, the neural network.
Since fasting also reduces inflammation, it attenuates the neurodegenerative processes leading to diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

6. Weight loss
Calorie restriction does the magic!

7. Release of Human Growth Hormone.
It promotes the release of HGH.

8. Detoxification begins.
“A detoxification process also occurs, because any toxins stored in the body’s fat are dissolved and removed from the body.” ³

9. Enhances Immune system
“When you starve, the system tries to save energy, and one of the things it can do to save energy is to recycle a lot of the immune cells that are not needed, especially those that may be damaged,”
Dr Longo explains.³

10. Fights Depression
It has got antidepressant effects due to the release of feel-good hormones- Serotonin and Endogenous opioids.

On Mind
It helps you befriend your mind and control it.
Self-discipline increases tremendously.

On Spiritual Realm.
It helps you connect to the higher power, to God.

Types Of Fasting

Water Fasting
Juice Fasting
Intermittent Fasting

Safety

If you suffer from diabetes or low blood sugar, fasting can lead to spikes and crashes in your blood sugar levels, which could be dangerous. ¹

Fasting can also cause heartburn; lack of food leads to a reduction in stomach acid.³

For what the famous Indian Mystic Sadhguru has to say on fasting check here.

References

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Author: The Ikiguy

Are you listening to your symphony?

The White Coat is our comfort zone, isn’t it?

If leaving the campus doesn’t make you cry, you haven’t lived a college life

Why do we need to marry?

Passion vs Profession

why you should start using the notion?

Like it happened yesterday

When the true moon shines.

Everyone talks about love, why doesn’t anyone talk about Heartbreaks?

Top 10 reasons Why you should fast!?