The Uncharted Mind Quotes

“Achieving your life goals and being happy
are two independent things.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“Our mind is our own cozy shelter,
where we can have our private conversations,
find solace, and be at peace.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“Age is not just a number. You can feel eighteen, you can look eighteen -- but when you fall ill, you can't recover like eighteen.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“We should travel – because only then we can truly unravel not just the vastness of the universe, but of our own mind.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“New year, new steps but no denial,
Survival was more than chance, it was a trial.
Past was not kind, yet it marks the climb,
The distance traveled, and passage of time.

Scars on the body, endured through fear,
Through struggle and fight, we conquered the year.
Here’s to the battle we bravely chose,
Against all odds, we stood and we rose.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“A breath beside mine, a soft chain of fear.
“Don’t move,” the whisper says—it is very safe here.
Each caution makes me frailer;
Self-doubt my own jailer.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“Others may thrive in dialogue, I do not. My true place is a quiet room, where words can rest long enough to gather meaning.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“Because I’m bald, right?”
She nodded hesitantly, trying not to hurt him,

Silence did the rest.

Bald = unloved. Simple math.


He fought it.

Creams. Pills. Surgery.

A year of becoming someone else.

The hair came back. Self worth didn't.



He knocked again.

“I'm not bald anymore.”

She looked at him, he’d missed the point.

“It wasn’t the hair,” she said, gently.


She took a step closer.

Just the truth standing between them.

"I almost loved you," her voice barely a whisper,

"But you did not."



He didn’t know what cut deeper —

Her words, or how she handed them to him,

Or the truth that had always been there,

Quiet in the corner, waiting to be seen.



It wasn’t the baldness.

It was the fear that he wasn’t enough.

And that’s what she saw,

Not a man without hair, but a man without peace.



For peace isn’t found in the fixing.

It is found in accepting

Your flaws, your fears,

And in the belief that you are enough.

Even if the hair never grows back.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“A good dress isn’t just an attire; it can be a mood changer. It can make you feel beautiful, bring a smile to your face, or make you feel so comfortable that you forget your worries and run carefree on a hectic day.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“Broken

I fell in love with you and gave my heart as a token,
Even though I knew that you were broken.

You drove away friends, estranged from everyone.
I stayed, because being with you was fun.

People warned me, but I ignored their view;
I was sure that my love would make you new.

It took a while, and now the time has spoken,
You remain the same, but now I am broken.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“The hope that good old days will come back never goes away.
They come back sometimes – but then we are so focused on good old days that we fail to recognise good present days.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“People overestimate their own intelligence
and underestimate everybody else’s.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“We all want someone to accept us with all our flaws,
all our vulnerabilities.
But as soon as someone else shows their vulnerable side,
we try to exploit them.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“We can trust the motives of a malicious person.
It is a forgiving person who we should be wary of.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“When mercenaries run a democracy,
the nation becomes a business,
and the public vote becomes a commodity
that can be bought and sold in a market.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“Fools won the assembly –
while scholars never spoke, being afraid of losing the debate.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“Every person has some good in them.
It is a mob of people that can be pure evil.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“Everybody is against nepotism until it is their turn.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“You are little, just a baby, and butterflies flutter in your stomach.
You do not understand.
"What is happening?" you ask, but your inexperienced mind can't explain.
You can't ask others -- you don't know, not yet, how to put it in words.

You grow up, and now you have learned many words for it.
But you have also learned not to talk about it.
Living your life has become daunting ... exhausting.
Your family worries, so you pretend to be alright.

You gather courage and talk to those who will listen.
Sometimes they don't judge, they try to empathise.
They try hard, but they fail.
You feel more frustrated, more lonely.

It never goes away,
You are high and happy, then you think of it, and slowly your happiness fades.
You are low and sad, and you feel relieved.
You know it is going to happen, you can't help but feel this way.

It gets suppressed, but it is there.
You are afraid, cautious, for you know it is going to resurface,
When you are least expecting.
Like a beast lurking at the edge, ready to pull you into the dark abyss.

It strikes in that one unsuspecting moment.
You don't want to kill yourself,
Because it will hurt the people you love.
But you really really ... really wish you never existed.

Then one day you stand against it.
Whether you like it or not, you are here ... you exist.
If everything is meaningless, then why should you be afraid.
So you decide to fight ... to write….

But this dread never goes away.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind