Breakup? Time to peppy up!

Falling in love is the most amazing feeling in the world. Everything is colourful, bright and beautiful. 

Life is a joy ride and as long as you are in love it seems you can counter everything.

But nothing is forever. Sometimes the most eternal feeling called love too runs its course. Sometimes the strongest of bonds  tends to break. The world becomes a gloomy place. 

No amount of words can make a broken heart feel alright. 

All reasonings seem futile and nothing seems to peppy you up. 

Its totally understandable, that post breakup phase is really a difficult one specially if you have been on the receiving end or if your relation lasted for a considerable time but you need to accept that it is time to move on. 

It would take a while to accept but not be forever or impossible.

All you need is a little hope and strength. 

Time heals all wounds, no matter how so ever deep. So, let time do the work and in the meanwhile distract yourself into things you love. 

Worry not about breakup, its time to cheer up, peppy up! 

1)Indulge in a little self pampering- so what is he didn't give you what you deserved? It's time to shower yourself with a bit of self love.

Book an appointment to your favourite parlour or order some beautiful products online. You can also try some DIYs to soothe your skin or soften your hair. 

The bottom line is, your soul needs to feel loved and who can love you more than yourself? 

2)Be your own Santa- christmas may have passed and your birthday too is months ahead but you don't need reasons to gift yourself. So be your own Santa and buy for yourself some exotic products. Sounds Insane? 

Believe me you will love it. 

It could be the costly MAC lipstick or the designer sunglasses you have been eyeing since a year. 

Know that you are priceless and peppy up darling! 

3)Hobbies- you may have heard this a hundred times but that's because indulging in the things you love is one of the greatest stress busters. 

If you feel you can't find a hobby then search things that cater your interests. 

Cooking, Baking, Writing, Dancing, there is no dearth of things that you may find your interest in. 

4)Achieve- Winning or achieving gives us a sense of self accomplishment that nothing else can. 

Participate in contests and give your best or maybe join a study summer course and get good grades. You can also look ahead to excelling in your own profession. By this I do not mean that you turn into a workaholic, just little achievements that make you feel that you are worthy. 

5)Travel far and wide- Pack your bags and book the tickets to that place you had planned to visit. 

Travelling is indeed the best of stress busters and actually a golden way to divert your attention from memories that break you down. 

Travelling also brings in new experiences and new people which is so very healthy for a shattered soul. 

Above all, you need to get yourself together and look forward. 

Don't forget to seek help if needed and talk to those who you think can really help you. 

Remind yourself that everyone goes through such phases in life and you are not alone. 

"When you are down to nothing, God is upto something".

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Navigating through medical life..Doctors-Book Review

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Doctors is a story of Harvard medical student's class of 1962. 

The book beautifully navigates through the medical as well as personal life of these healers in white coats. 

Centring around Barney Livingston and Laura Castellano, the book opens up in the childhood of these would-be doctors and their families who are neighbours. 

Slowly it moves forward as they cross their teenage and finally enter the prestigious 'Harvard medical school'. 

After five years of grilling, the story progresses to their days of internship and how each of the batchmates moves towards various specialities. 

The book then revolves and vividly narrates the hardships faced by each one of them. Their struggles, the war, the racism, hopes, love and how they continue to progress into the medical field inspite of all odds. Finding love, experiencing heartbreaks, disease and calamities.

 No doubt, this work of Erich Segal is a page turner all the way. 

The poise with which he navigates into the medical world to show innumerable aspects of a doctor's life is commendable. The most wonderful aspect of the story is that it sticks to the central theme and yet manages to spread, showing so many aspects of a doctors life.

Be it the racism faced by Bennett or Seth's undue compassion for his patients. 

I also loved how he slowly and very beautifully depicts the relationship between story's main protagonists Laura and Barney and then how their platonic friendship ends to give way to romantic love.

Equation between Bennett and Barney is amazingly portrayed too. 

I also loved how Erich broadens our medical horizons and reasons out each of the characters moving on to practice their interests of speciality.

The ending is beautiful too and does explain many aspects between medicine and miracle. How even doctors who heal can be helpless and that they too look forward to miracles. 

Favourite character: It has to be Dr. Barney Livingston. This guy is a real charmer. Be his equation with Laura or Bennett. His passion, his knowledge and sarcasm, Depiction of Barney's character is simply awesome. 

I totally fell in love with our hero cum psychiatrist.

Favourite lines: 

1. "He had spent most of his lifetime studying the art of medicine and realized now that he would never really understand its mysteries. For medicine is an eternal quest for reasons - causes that explain effects. Science cannot comprehend a miracle".

2. "although science could pinpoint the exact spot in the brain that ignites rage, they had yet to identify the location that produces love". 

Favourite part: All of the medical college. Being a medical student, this was the part of the book I could relate to so very much. It just took me back to my medical college days, the sleepless nights during exams, endless discussions on the phone, how ruthless our medical professors were, how easily they failed, the incessant mugging and each and every detail is so real. 

Verdict: This book is a MUST read for every medical student. 

You will simply Love it!

Those of you who do not belong to the medical fraternity, this book is the best way to navigate and understand the life of these mortals in white coats. 

Rating : 4/5 

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Navigating through life..

Life is complex. The fundamentals and philosophies around it are even more complex. 

A thousand mysteries run haphazardly in each direction and navigating through it is quite an exhausting if not an impossible task. 

No doubt, construction of a human mind and its fellow soul is an equally complex and haphazard process but somehow the complexities of life always overpower the mental problem solving.

There are times when you feel you have figured it all out and navigated through this daunting maze successfully when suddenly it roller coaster's to a new ride.

Destiny is a powerful word. The belief in it an infinitely powerful feeling.

We may not be able to fight the complex philosophies of life but we sure can try to simplify it. 

Of Course, simplification is easier said than done. It requires not just a firm belief but also in depth analysis, study and learning.

But once begun, the process keeps on auto progressing of sorts.

Sounds vague? 

Let me give you a clearer insight now.

Suppose, life presents you with an unpleasant situation. What is your instinctive reaction? 

You tend to fight. Instead of trying to understand why it happened and what impact it could create on your life or what you can learn from it, you tend to question why me or the harms it has temporarily bestowed .

Now, what if you had accepted it in a former way? What if you tried to simplify it.

As mentioned above, if you accepted it as an act of destiny with a firm belief that it is unarguably for your own benefit. 

That benefit is for you to experience sooner or later. 

The situation may not be in your favour as of now but it surely isn't forever.

Peace will envelope you.

This is the power of faith in destiny. It helps you navigate through the harsh surroundings and darker dungeons

 in the simplest and most calm ways. 

It helps you navigate through life in the most hopeful and positive way.

Some people believe that accepting all that occurs to us as an act of destiny is like taking a back seat in this car of life.

Although this is an extremely wrong way to look through the situation and life at large. 

Why? Because, even when we drive through unknown roads, the harsh or maybe dangerous ones, we never drive with a warrior mindset. At Least a sensible driver won't. We might be afraid that the path is untravelled and a crisis situation might create panic but that doesn't justify us to increase the speed or rash drive the situation.

Instead we drive calmly and sensibly, trying to simplify as we navigate through the unknown paths. 

We try to alter our moods by playing a peppy music or thinking of hopeful and impact creating memoirs.

That is an intelligent way to go about it. 

An intelligent way to navigate through the ups and downs of life.

Don't just rush through in an instinctive way. That would do much harm than good. Try and analyse it first, know your place on the path of life and then rationally take a step ahead.

A firm belief in destiny can be an incredible source of sanity and positivity, believe it or not.

Give it a thought and you would never have to take a backseat when navigating through the situations of life.

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Secrets to a brighter new day!

'I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day,a fresh try, one more start,with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning'.

J.B.Priestley 

The very thought of beginning a new day brings in hope. It is a universal phenomenon that the rays of Sun brighten not just the outer world but also its inhabitants. And that's precisely why mornings are so radiant with a positive aura.

Mornings are and should always be vibrant and pleasant. If we can learn the art of turning the start of our day to a good one, we can reach newer heights every day. 

Although I too have my own highs and lows but somethings make me look forward to the beginning of a new day, I call them my 'golden assets for good morning'.

Off late, I have been feeling terrible about how depression and gloominess is on a rise. People are so engrossed in the monotony of the day that they fail to embrace the goodness around. Even bright sunny mornings seem to have lost their charm. 

So, I decided to contribute my share of hope to those who read me. Here's me sharing my secrets to turn your good mornings to gold mornings:

1) Start your day with prayer- Believing in God brings an amazing amount of strength within me.

It shields me from all the negativities and burdens of the present as well as tomorrow because I trust that a super power is there to support and protect me. 

2) Colgate 360 gold mornings- No matter what how vibrant you feel, gold mornings are incomplete without a fresh and thorough oral care. Colgate 360 gold mornings makes sure you get the best out of your morning.

It is truly a gold standard of oral care leaving you with an amazingly fresh breath and beautiful smile. 

3) Dress my best- We all believe in dressing up passionately for parties and special occasions but somewhere in the monotony of everyday schedule, we fail to give proper attention to ourselves and just rush through this in mornings. 

But I make sure that I dress my best every morning.That doesn't mean that I wear too much of make up or spend long time accessorising but I do make sure that l do not leave the house until I get that feel good factor about myself.

4) Breakfast like a king- Breakfast is the most improtant meal of the day and extremely important for good health and a positive mind. 

A gold morning for me is incomplete without a nutritious and powerpacked breakfast.

5) Coffee is my cup of sanity- Brewing myself a nice hot cup of coffee is the way I love to pamper myself. Although I might be in a rush and unable to devote the same amount of love sipping and enjoying every bit of it, I at least enwrap the lovely aroma within me and that makes my morning a golden one.

Having shared all this, I do realise that everyday is not as sunny as yesterday but I try my best to keep the negatives for latter part of the day so that my mornings are essentially fuelled for all things not so bright and beautiful.

This mantra might sound exactly opposite to the famous 'delaying gratification' one but if you analyse it closely they are very much in symmetry. 

Postponing winters while you are preparing to beat the cold is actually not just a gratification delayed but also a sensible thing to do.

What do you think?

I hope you liked my secrets to a gold morning and a positive day. Do share in some of yours too. 

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May you be blessed with 'Gold Mornings' all you life!