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June 19, 2017
How To Enjoy Your Life
A couple of days ago, my cousin texted me saying she was bored of life.
I asked her, ‘Why?’
She repeated the same thing and I decided to, with the best of my abilities, make her realise how life can be enjoyed.
According to me, the first step to happiness and stress detoxification is appreciating every thing that is with and around you at the moment.
Family.
Shelter.
Food.
Warm clothes.
Health.
Safety.
Your talent – whether it may be writing, drawing, singing, dancing, science, making people feel better, being a great friend, etc.
If we’re not able to appreciate all this, we will find a hard time appreciating anything else. The mind will be in the Olympics, racing forward to see what else is available instead of stopping just for a moment and being ecstatic at what already exists. It leads the mind into satisfaction, and eliminates stress and passionate hopes that sometimes end up being a grenade in our own poor heads.
Take a look around you.
The sound of the washing machine at work. Your Mum talking to her friend on the phone as she tidies up the living room. Your brother still sleeping. Your dad busy at work. The fan spinning. The speaker that will play you the music of your choice while you do something else. Your desk a mess but just the way you like it. Divine Mantra playing softly beside you.
Take a look out the window.
The warm sun, bathing the green leaves. The woman who sweeps the compound, keeping it clean. Squirrels collecting and eating food. Birds chirping. Clear sky. Sound of the airplanes now and then. Horns of buses and cars out on the street.
How safe you are.
Think about all the people you love – your family, friends, celebrities.
Think about everything you like – movies, hobbies, books, music, animals, whales, dolphins.
Think about how they exist in the same world you do. Fill yourself with it.
Life is never boring.
It’s wonderful.
Love the every day things, and you won’t find any reason to complain.
Have a great day ahead.
Jai Shree Krishna.
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June 5, 2017
Amarendra Bāhubali + Devasena
And here it is, the fanfiction I’ve been waiting for ever since my bestie, Priya Darshni, told me she was going to write it. An enchanting, romantic and amazingly written sequence between Amarendra Baahubali and Devasena, the on screen couple who has stole hearts all over the world. Fans of the Baahubali movie franchise will definitely have their thirsts for more of these two quenched by this story
Life. Dreams. Hopes and Happiness.
Hi Readers!
I am writing after a long break, I know. Three things I would like to say here,
I am not returning from hiatus.
The story and plot are fully mine; whereas I have borrowed somecharacters from the world-famous Bāhubalifranchise. Accordingly, I declare here that this is intended as fan-fiction only.
I hope you read thisafter watching both movies. It’ll be better that way. (but, it’s not a rule)
I’ve missed you badly, WordPress. And I am going to continue missing you. But, here is a short (long?) story for all the fans of Bāhubaliout there.
Without further ado, behold the world of AmarendraBāhubali.
Jai Mahishmati!
When Love is All…
“So, what you do you think?” asked Devasena. The fingers on her hands entwined with each other and shivered slightly. The woman in front of her frowned as she held Devasena’s right wrist.
“Shh,” she…
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May 27, 2017
Wake Up The Amarendra Baahubali In You
Amarendra Baahubali.
The on screen crush of almost every girl and woman who’s a fan of the Baahubali movie series.
He’s set the standard for men so high nearly every bachelorette’s eyes are scanning for a similar majesty, similar confidence, similar wink, similar smirk, and similar charm.
I forgot to mention one more laudable factor of Prabhas in the movie review before – which is how brilliantly he has cast the difference between father and son. While Amarendra Baahubali is steady, calculative, analytical, extremely clever, neat, swift and sharp, Mahendra Baahubali is rough, depends on his brute strength, and usually acts before he thinks. Whenever you look at each one, you can identify who is Amarendra and who is Mahendra.
But Amarendra Baahubali is the real hero of the story, as he owns three quarters of the second part, and even though his presence is less than Mahendra in the first, he uses those forty-five minutes to overshadow Mahendra. Because his characterisation is priceless. I’m pretty sure it’s because of him The Conclusion has become a big hit.
So what is it about this man?
Why is he the talk of everyone now?
Credit for the inspiration of this post goes to my mother, who has closely analysed Amarendra Baahubali more than I have.
She practically told my brother and me to wake him up in us, turning him into one of our role models.
I’m going to list everything we should learn from Amarendra Baahubali:
Positivity:
There is not a moment he complains or doesn’t like where he is or what he has. Before the battle between Magilmathi and Kalakeya, Kattappa tells him how he’s been condemned to injustice by being provided with less powerful weapons, to which he only smiles and takes a significant look at the red fabric of their tents as well as the ones of the twenty five thousand soldiers, which is used as a collection of gigantic flammable nets in the battle. He believes what is in his hands can be used effectively. While Bhalla is displeasured by their palace guards, Amarendra states that if it weren’t for that, they wouldn’t have been able to see so many kingdoms. When Kattappa tells him he has good news and bad news, he states he will decide whether they are good or bad, and turns the bad one into a good one.
One of the times this trait really moved me was when Devasena’s cousin, Kumara Varma, angrily kicks Amarendra in the chest when he mistakes his intention to visit Devasena at night. After Kumara Varma comes to know who he is and apologises, Amarendra smiles and says, ‘That was when I realised how powerful you really are, which was why I assured you and told you to fight off those enemy group and protect those women.’
Amarendra Baahubali spreads his positivity to everyone he can, being their strength.
Contentment:
He is always happy.
When Bhalla whacks the Kalakeya king from behind and kills him, since the price of it is becoming the King of Magilmathi, before Amarendra can slash him, he smiles with affection.
When Sivagami establishes Amarendra will become King instead, he accepts it dutifully.
When he chooses Devasena over the throne since Sivagami states he can’t have both, he dedicatedly accepts the role of Commander-In-Chief.
When Bhalla cunningly robs him of that duty and gives it to one of his men, he makes no contradiction.
When Sivagami banishes him and Devasena out of the palace, he makes a lovely home for him and her among the people, imparts his wisdom to their children, teaches them how to fight and builds a dam with them.
Amarendra Baahubali has never been ambitious or demanded his life be a certain way. He goes with the flow of what is happening around him and adapts himself to the inevitable situation.
Focus:
Nothing can shake him out of his concentration when he gets into it.
When he sets himself a target or someone sets it for him, he accomplishes it. During the Kalakeya battle, Bhalla’s eyes are always drawn to Amarendra instead of the enemies in front of him, while Amarendra’s eyes are fixed on the Kalakeya King who insulted his mother and saving as many lives as he could. Even though he dances with the women in the pub as a distraction so Bhalla could seize their betrayer, his head whirls around at Bhalla’s whistle, which shows where his concentration really lay.
Throwing Bhalla the other end of the rope without looking while launching over the cliff to grasp the betrayer from escaping, shooting arrows in Devasena’s direction (scaring us for a second) but only to lightly graze her earrings to make them dance before killing the enemies behind her, teasing Devasena by racing her arrows to kill the wild pigs, killing bandits to save Kattappa while grinning like a loon thinking of Devasena after seeing her for the first time – are other fantastic moments where his focus is unruffled.
Respect:
He respects his mother. He respects his wife, including her ability to shoot arrows and wield a sword. He respects Kattappa. And he respects the entire kingdom. When a man respects his family and the people around him, he ultimately becomes the warrior of his life.
Think like Amarendra Baahubali.
Feel positive like Amarendra Baahubali.
Be confident like Amarendra Baahubali.
Concentrate on your work and at the task at hand like Amarendra Baahubali.
Respect your family and the people around you like Amarendra Baahubali.
Love your life like Amarendra Baahubali.
Wake up the Amarendra Baahubali in you.
May 7, 2017
Gambling Of Health
At the moment, I’m hard pressed for time doing anything else other than writing my book, re-reading the previous books of the series, editing for the umpteenth time, and thinking about the final book, but I had to squeeze in this blog post, hoping it’ll reach people. The trigger for it is an eighteen year old girl who has her kidneys almost failed.
The kidneys that have been affected due to ignorance of her needs.
This young girl damaged a perfectly good physiological system deliberately by herself.
Most people, especially young adults, take their health and the body and the organs they’re blessed with for granted.
They use it to look into the screen of a smart phone all day.
They use it to store junk from fast food.
And in the case of this eighteen year old, they subject it to starvation to accomplish a material task.
Though I’ve stated this loads of times in previous blog posts already, I’m saying it again.
YOUR BODY AND THE ORGANS INSIDE IT ARE PRICELESS.
Priceless.
And yet, teens and young adults brutally ignore this fact.
This eighteen year old girl was so into studying for her year twelve board exams that she deliberately put off her meals to cram in an extra chapter into her mind. I laud the girl for her dedication to score high marks but it is overshadowed by how she pushed away the demands of her stomach. And when she couldn’t ignore the wails any longer, she obviously ate snacks or noodles, whatever was quick or ready to eat. Anytime she ingested a proper meal, it was untimed. For example, eating breakfast at noon and having dinner in lieu of lunch.
This couldn’t be the only time she did this.
Because a damage to your body doesn’t happen overnight.
Year twelve is full of demands and commitment to the text-books. The pressure happens either self-inflicted or by teachers and parents. The girl took on the former and coupled it with her fiery ambition, I suspect ever since the summer special classes started. The only thing I can be a little happy about is that she wrote all the exams before the problem to her kidneys took over.
Abandoning meals must have also included abandoning water too, leading to external as well as internal dehydration, one of the direct hits to the kidneys. She has no immunity to fight for herself – which proves she’d only eaten junk food and snacks to satiate her hunger – and now is in the condition where extra blood has to be transferred to her body, which also has to be accepted, since a large number of white blood cells are required to revive her. But damage to the kidneys is a permanent damage, as it is with any other organ. You can never get back the original function of an organ after it’s harmed, since it’s either helped with medication or has to replaced with an artificial replica of it.
No eighteen year old or young adult or any one for that matter should go through this. Your life changes horrifyingly and nothing is ever the same again.
God blessed us with this beautiful and amazing body for us. Why can’t we care for it and not work it like a mule, thinking it’ll withstand any kind of crap you subject it to?
It’s not just this eighteen year old. Countless other teenagers and young adults ignore the worth of health and prefer to gamble it away, ending up in similar conditions. Most of them are revived but what next? They have a long journey waiting for them yet. Life is just starting. Family, career, desires, all of these are a part of it and with their body having undergone physiological problems due to stupid reasons like an ignorant poor diet, how in the world are they going to take care of their future and family?
Bear babies?
Give birth?
Raise them?
And will those children grow up healthy?
Not likely, by the looks of almost everyone’s lethargic attitude.
Thinking about this makes me shudder.
And angry.
It’s true the world is filled with means to ruin people’s lives and health but there are so many ways to take proper care of yourself as well. Eating properly and at right times alone will solve so many problems. How long is that really going to take, huh?
Young adults find it a hobby and trend to eat out with friends, avoiding home cooked meals most of the time. What they like eating is filled with arrows to either poison or weaken their body systems. I’ve seen so much of this live back in my college. It’s an all women’s college and we have two batches, regular courses from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and the self finance courses from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. I was part of the morning batch, where we have a break from 10 a.m. to 10:20 a.m. and that’s usually when so many girls have their breakfast. You can’t blame them, since some of them come from long distances and don’t have time to eat in the morning, but yet, they don’t bring home made meals. They like eating fried snacks or those parottas the canteen stocks on a humungous level. Had the canteen stocked up on fruits and vegetable rice instead, I think the damage would have been lessened. But no. Anyway, no use in blaming the canteen, the girls should have thought for themselves. It’s not like the noxious trait of fried foods and parottas are a secret.
But in this aspect, I think the girls are not solely to blame. Some mothers at home don’t spare the time to prepare food that early in the morning. It’s predictable they would have gone, ‘Eat in the canteen.’ Their laziness has a hard impact too. How long would it take or cost for them to mix the simple milk rice that is a soothing balm? It’s enriched with calcium and gives adequate energy for the rest of the time in college.
On the other hand – this infuriates me – girls find it embarrassing to bring packed lunches. They like shouldering that handbag or backpack that contains their possessions, having no room for a lunch box, and including a lunch bag apparently taints their pride. We sometimes have extra classes or other work in the afternoon, requiring us to bring lunch, and I was the only girl to carry a lunch bag in the class (I carry it on normal days too, for the food or fruits I take for break as well as my water bottle). The rest of them either ate in the canteen or stuffed a small box of food to fit into their bags. The small box of food that doesn’t fill even half their stomachs.
Another way girls gamble their health away is by eating less so they can be slim. Just two spoons of rice, or just one or two dosas or idlis or chappathis. They don’t have the rational mind of eating a healthy amount and working out to lose extra calories. Everything should happen so easily.
And in the end, what happens?
Immunity is reduced, as well as destroyed, leaving them vulnerable to terrible circumstances like the one of this eighteen year old.
We have a future.
We have to take care of a family.
We have to raise children.
Remember that.
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April 29, 2017
The Perfect Conclusion For Baahubali
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That drive of Kattappa’s sword through Amarendra Baahubali’s back rattled everyone at the end of Baahubali: The Beginning, causing a huge ripple of anticipation for the reason in the sequel, The Conclusion.
The world received the answer yesterday.
I technically received it from last night’s show.
And I loved it.
The story leading to that backstab owns three quarters of the movie and not one scene was out of place or unnecessary. Mr Rajamouli’s affinity for a neat, steady-paced, majestic, romantic and emotional movie was worth every single second I spent in the theatre and I declare there can be no better conclusion than this.
Apparently, the pack of wolves that sat behind me and my family think they’re better than Rajamouli. I had to resist the urge to get up, turn around and punch every single retard so bad that they can never abuse another brilliant movie ever again.
Anyone else who thinks the reason Kattappa killed Amarendra Baahubali is lame, well, then, I think no story has ever been good enough for you before. Rajamouli and the other creators can be least bothered by that, since the rest of us who know what it takes to make a good movie or write a well-written book know there can be no better reason.
The first time I saw Baahubali: The Beginning was a night show too, on the third day of release, and I initially had no intention of watching it, only tagging along because of my parents’ insistence. I settled down in my seat to fall asleep but ended up on the edge of it, courtesy of that mighty waterfall, Sivagami protecting baby Baahubali and then holding him above the river’s surface. The characters of Baahubali (Prabhas), Devasena (Anushka Shetty), Kattappa (Sathyaraj), Sivagami (Ramya Krishnan), Bhallala Deva (Rana Daggubati) and Pinggalathevan (Nassar) struck parallels with Yudhishtira/Arjuna, Draupadi, Bhishma, Satyavati, Duryodhana and Dhritarashtra from Mahabharata, yet, this story had its own style and uniqueness that was a keeper. I remember how my Dad went, ‘The director has huge guts stopping the movie at a crucial moment and dropping a bombshell’, as we went out of the theatre. Because people have only read similar stuff in books written in English and seen them in Hollywood movies, both of which don’t have that large an Indian audience. And if anything to do with kingdom and thrones was featured on screen, we’ve only had our epics, Mahabharata and Ramayana, made into TV series. Epic fantasy movies haven’t been a part of Indian cinema before, let alone a series of them, and there was a huge chance people wouldn’t have taken to this kindly. But they did, to an immense level, and it increased the pressure more and more on The Conclusion.
But I don’t think that had any major impact on Rajamouli. He had the map drawn. He had all the missing pieces ready to fix onto the puzzle. And he steadily slid them in place with agility, splendour and emotions. I do admit some parts of the fight scenes had slight exaggeration but we had some of that in the first movie too, with the soar over snow mountains and climbing the waterfall mountain, but that’s why the movie comes under the genre – fantasy. The stunts in both movies raised eyebrows only in a, ‘Well, hey, that’s a way to go about it’ manner.
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SPOILER ALERT:
If you haven’t seen the movie yet, don’t read this paragraph. And if you want to, that’s your own risk 
April 26, 2017
Mewing Kittens
I suddenly had a desire to hear little kittens mewing this morning and when I came across this cute video on YouTube, I couldn’t resist sharing it. For all you kitten and pet lovers, I’m sure this’ll be a treat!
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April 20, 2017
Why Superman Is More Relatable
We’ve all grown up watching at least one superhero movie in our lives. May it be Superman, Spiderman or Batman, the comics featuring these characters have paved way to a list of movies in the last few decades. I remember being a fan of Superman as well as Justice League on Cartoon Network back when I was in my single digit ages but then Disney took over my life, after which I got introduced to Spiderman. Before I plunge into this post, I’d like to say I’m not that big a fan of action packed superhero stuff, so Superman and Spiderman are the only heroes I’ve ever been familiar with. I also haven’t seen every single movie that stars them either, but this piece of my musings has been inspired from what I’ve seen so far.
Before I saw any Superman movies, I saw Tobey Maguire’s Spiderman when it first came out and it became a craze among my cousins, brothers and sisters alike. I used to join in the team routing for the webbed crawler of New York. Then 2006 brought Superman Returns and I enjoyed that too. That was my first Superman movie but it was also a sequel to the original two movies that came out in 1978 and 1980. I recently watched those and it made me suddenly realise how I liked Superman much more than Spiderman. Maybe these movies travelled through a road deviating from what is portrayed in the comics but since I haven’t read them, I’m going with these alone.
When I was a kid, Spiderman fascinated me as to how he protected the entire city even though he was just a high schooler and later, a scholar in college. He got shouldered with responsibility at very young an age and started battling with his own personal life, family as well as romance. But something about Spiderman always remains mysterious to everyone. For one, he dons a mask. I know it exists for safety reasons as well as to complete the entire spider attire, but in my opinion, it makes him detached from the rest of the world. And resembling an eight legged creature, especially to people who are generally afraid of spiders or don’t like the way they move, kind of doesn’t fall in tune with me. He’s scary. I’m not saying I dislike him, because in spite of all these, he’s really cool, energetic, is a natural at lithe, quick, spirited moves, and can kick a villain’s ass any time he wants. I enjoyed Andrew Garfield’s portrayal much more than Tobey Maguire’s actually. But if someone asks me if I’d like to have dinner with Spiderman, I’d be apprehensive and waiting for the moment he’d literally turn into a giant spider and scare me away from the table.
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Contrary to his alter ego, Peter Parker is very likeable. He gets bullied at school and despite everything, tries to score good marks. He has his insecurities, which are all put to an end to when he turns into Spiderman. With his newly found abilities, he puts his bullies in place and with the confidence Spidey brings him, he’s able to work on his love for Mary Jane Watson. And yes, as his uncle tells him – With great power comes great responsibility. Which he fights to live up to. Peter Parker as a stand alone is quite a relatable character but if I look at Spiderman, even though it’s the same person, he’s this crawler and web swinger whose athletic moves and traits don’t come in touch with the audience. He remains to be a cool and amazing fantasy that is not relatable.
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Superman, on the other hand, feels more close to people. He doesn’t wear a mask to hide himself. To wrap him up in a single sentence, he’s an impersonation of a regular man. He comes into the world as Kal-El from the planet Krypton for the sole purpose to protect humanity and stand for justice, and is raised as the adorable Clark Kent on a farm. Then he comes into terms with his powers and rises as Superman in a red cape and blue suit, protecting the city of Metropolis as well as the rest of the world.
As the Man of Steel, he’s seen as serious, confident, majestic and always on the alert to save people from trouble. As Clark Kent, he walks into people and things, is clumsy, nervous, and supports a goofy grin.
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This right here, symbolises how in spite of a person being everything Clark Kent is, Superman is underneath all those – Bravery, strength and confidence. There’s a Superman in all of us. We just need to find out where he is and bring him out to battle all the challenges life throws at us. And just like all of us, this hero has a weakness. It’s not Lois Lane, or the way Mary Jane is to Spiderman.
Superman’s real weakness is the deadly Kryptonite. Stab him with it like Lex Luthor does in Superman Returns and he’s done for. You may be thinking, ‘A hero with a weakness like that is not entertaining or fun to watch’, but if you cast that juvenile thought aside, you can realise how it makes him a realistic hero. Because like him, we’ve all had our moments when our weaknesses get the better of us and we feel like running out of the room or wishing the ground would swallow us up. Admit it.
For example, a person with a short temper is an easy target for someone to infuriate and when that negative emotion takes over, they stop thinking and can be taken advantage of to lure them into sticky situations. Like an employer getting into trouble with his boss, likely to get fired, so that his provoker can land his job. In today’s competitive world, people are looking for their opponents’ weaknesses to bring them down.
At the same time, when we know our strengths, we can use them to win over our weaknesses, like the way he uses his infinite power to lift that land mass poisoned with Kryptonite, using a simple trick of putting so many layers of earth between himself and it, slowing the infection before he pushes it out of the planet.
It all comes down to knowing what can stop our weaknesses from knocking our knees out before we succeed. That’s life.
If you’re going to mention how he falls from the sky after that and has to be hospitalised, my answer is, that is actually a sign of unconditional love he has for the people he cares about and puts their needs before his. He knows the Kryptonite can kill him but to save the city he genuinely cares for, he lifts it out, because he’s the only one who could do it. And he was revived later on, by the love that was reciprocated.
When a man loves the people around him and will do anything in his power to protect them from harm, nothing whatsoever can actually defeat him.
Looking past the superhero stuff, you learn so much from Superman than you do from Spiderman.
Note that these all come from watching Superman (1978), Superman II (1980) and Superman Returns (2006). I haven’t seen Man of Steel or Dawn of Justice and don’t know how the character has been portrayed, but since these three are inter-related and have given me a wonderful impression of the hero, I don’t plan to watch those two.
You’re welcome to post your opinions as relating to this post or contrary to it in the comment section below.
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April 3, 2017
Unhealthy Diets of Fictional Characters
Okay, so some of you who follow my blog closely might already know I’m a health freak and I always encourage healthy eating and regular exercise whenever possible. It so automatically happens that while reading, I pay close attention to the diets of the characters and most of the time, stare at how in the world they eat what they eat almost all the time and then keep themselves in ship-shape. I don’t know if I’m missing something in some of the books I read, but I keep failing to draw balance between the hot men, model-like women and all the pizza, pasta, lasagna, fried food and other Italian and Chinese food that’s more or less constantly featured as their meals.
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Either all those food don’t contain cholesterol or saturated fats, or those characters have freakishly fast metabolism.
This is most prominent, as far as my experience, in young adult paranormal romance and adult romance. I’ve only read two series of the former and three series of the latter, so I can’t be quite sure if this strange feature is strung through in other books of those genres, but Bella Swan from the Twilight series has a drop dead body from all the lasagna, pasta, pizza and fried chicken she cooks for dinner on a common basis; Daemon and Dawson Black from the Lux series have ripped abs from all the meat, pasta, pizza, french fries, fried chicken, other fast food and the load of ice-cream they inhale; The women starring in the Mackade Brothers look either petite, slim or model-like from all the lasagna, different varieties of pasta, pizza, french fries and fried chicken that’s their staple diet, and the women from Chesapeake Bay series follow the same rule. The men in these series may be excused for having the bodies they have on account of hard manual labour, but still, they eat the same thing and it’s, well, it’s hard for me to digest – pun intended. And all that beer those men take! Perfect candidate to give a huge belly which none of them have even a peek of.
Is it just me or is the lack of proper workout and cardio and an unhealthy diet a huge eyebrow-raiser whenever I read ‘hard muscular body’ or ‘Long shapely legs’? No heroine of these series is said have at least a little belly or a tell-tale sign of cellulite, or anything wrong with their physical shape. Everything is perfect and sexy on first sight. No, seriously, it’s not funny. By the way people eat in these books, men and women alike, they should be obese instead of causing accidents on the road. They should have diabetes, cardiac problems, gastro-intestinal problems and constipation instead of good health. They should have pimples instead of smooth skin. Not even proper and regular workouts can metabolise all that cheese, saturated fat and cholesterol. I don’t think so.
Or do authors not know about whole wheat food, lean meat, pulses, fruits and vegetables to mention as diet? Or are all of these a type of wish-fulfillment? I’ve heard loads of people say, as they eat a heavy meal or fast food, ‘If only this goes in and doesn’t make me put on weight’, which is exactly why I sometimes wonder if the authors make their characters have supernatural metabolism and retain those hot bodies. The male protagonist of the Lux series is the main one to have caused this reaction out of me. At least the other heroes I mentioned do some labour and the one from Twilight is a vampire who only drinks blood, but this guy, Daemon Black, doesn’t do any labour and, for the love of Krishna, is his unbelievable hotness given some kind of throne by the heroine. Yes, I know he’s an alien from outer space, but he eats like a normal human being, doesn’t he? No, wait, a normal human being can’t eat that much.
And just because he’s an alien with powers doesn’t justify his physical shape.
The point is, there is no balance between the dietary habits and all those perfect curves and well-defined muscles. Not in my world.
And when people read this, the wrong impression is given.
Which is even worse.
I should say even F.R.I.E.N.D.S, the collection of all ten seasons on my hard-drive which is a prized possession, features pretty unhealthy diets too. There’s a bit too much pizza for good health and with all those coffee breaks they have with cakes and muffins, I do find it hard to see Monica, Rachel, Ross and Phoebe in great shape. At least Chandler and Joey look normal enough.
Maybe I am missing something or maybe I have issues with understanding the fact characters work out even if it is not mentioned, I don’t know, but I think healthier diets and a healthier lifestyle can be featured in books.
What do you say?
Feel free to post your opinions in the comment section below.
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March 25, 2017
Dream Come True
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A couple of days ago, I was at my cousin sister’s house and we were talking random stuff when she told me something that shocked me completely. Was it even possible? Does that sort of stuff really happen? Maybe Cinderella was right, after all.
More than a month ago, my sister had a dream in which one of her best friends got an award for best student in college. That sort of ceremony never happens there, not whilst she was there anyway, and she’s been there for five years now, about to earn her post graduate degree. Her best friend is one of the popular girls, gaining attention through her talent in excelling in dance. And she’d had this dream where she received an award and told her about it the next morning in class, surprising and amusing her.
‘Yeah, like that’s going to happen,’ she’d laughed.
Little did both of them know.
A few weeks later, an announcement came to their notice, in which her best friend was to receive the exact award her dream had foretold.
The only thing both of them didn’t do was fall out of their seats due to the way the earth shook beneath them. Her other friends who’d known about the dream too turned around to stare at her with wide eyes the size of dinner plates, threatening to bulge right out of their sockets.
And as the respective girl had her head full of my sister and climbed up the stage to receive the trophy to a loud round of applause, my sister was seated in the exact place she was seated on in her dream. They were all dazed for the rest of the day and week and she received a special treat from her best friend for this.
The quote from Cinderella I’ve shared wasn’t picked at random, because it suits my sister perfectly. When she wishes (when she’s awake
March 20, 2017
Where Does Fear Come From?
Peace is knowing you’re able to control what affects you.
Where else do you think fear comes from?
From the inability to have a hand over dangerous circumstances or trauma you may have a chance of becoming a victim of.
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