Posted by: Aadisht on: June 22, 2010
When I was a student, carefree and cheerful, I wanted nothing more than to grow up quickly to earn money and do things that adults could do… Now that I am an adult, I realize how naive I was to think so – as those were the best years of my life. As I talk [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 5, 2007
My hypothesis that my quarterlife crisis is really just pent up teenage angst finally being let out is being supported from my schadenfreude-laden reaction to joining Facebook. The brilliant thing about Facebook is not that it allows you to meet women. In fact that’s one of the scariest things about Facebook. You add a woman [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 23, 2007
The most important question in the world is whether God exists or not. Once you’ve decided that he doesn’t – or that even if he does, it hardly makes a difference one way or the other – the most important question in the world reduces to ‘What should I do with my life?’ The thing [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 21, 2007
It isn’t just self-awareness that’s overrated. Self-expression is just as bad. When you combine the two it becomes an inferno. You are self-aware. Thus you know your own insecurities. You self-express. Thus you talk about them. Everyone around you does not. You then wonder why everyone else seems to be so much less insecure than [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 21, 2007
I am absolutely fine with people looking at me strangely because I carry pens of four different colours at all times, or take my camera everywhere. I am terrified of possibly irritating customers by asking them for referrals. This is most mystifying.
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 18, 2007
Quarterlife Crisis: the ongoing struggle between ‘I could probably be good if I tried’ and ‘Who am I kidding here?’. This is why self-awareness is overrated. All it means is that you become even more aware of your insecurities and even more paralyzed by them. In the meantime, the people around you who are unaware [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 16, 2007
I don’t know if what I’m going through right now is a quarter-life crisis1 or simply pent-up teenage angst finally being released now that I no longer have to suppress it in favour of things like board exams and computer symposiums and entrance exams. According to Madhav there isn’t really a difference. 1: As Skimpy [...]