What’s in my Head

Dear unassuming reader, Today I write to you with some caution, a topic I have long pondered in my head. A question that lingers and has possibly haunted generations before me and will haunt generations to come. ” What is my purpose in life? “ Do I need to have an interesting pinboard steering me to the direction that makes me the most useful to everyone around me, academically and socially? Or should I accept the reality that the day a human is born, we are slowly but surely moving towards oblivion. There will be a day and an hour where no-one would know me and I would cease to exist. The most nihilistic point of view, so does it matter how my life ends up? Well, long answer short, I have come to the understanding that Purpose is not a unidirectional goal or motive that needs to be accomplished. It’s in one's everyday actions, how one make others feel, how one influences his/her surroundings, how one goes about choosing to do the things he/she wants to do irrespective ...

  Hi Dearest Reader, I’d like to introduce myself. I’m Alka , a thriving 22 year old Medical Student. You read that right. Didn't say surviving but thriving. The reason primarily being I enjoy every venture this life has to offer and more importantly have also come to the dreary realisation that these are probably the best years of my life. Pushes me to make every day count. Now the most paramount question to answer, why have I started writing on a blog? My most honest answer would be pointing to two reasons. There’s a senior back in school who I fondly look up to and remember. My favourite thing about her was her ability to transfer her thoughts clearly and quite accurately. She still writes and I always find myself  enthralled by her words. Somehow reading her make me feel not so alone in this big, big world.  I have grown quite lackadaisical through my college years. I find myself stuck in an endless loop of the Internet be it the highly addictive Instagram or the n...