Manoj

Tag: life

  • For the love of “sighing flosser”

    For the love of “sighing flosser”

    I have loved libraries ever since I was a kid. My mother got us library cards – each card allowed us to borrow one book against it – and there was a tag and a pocket attached inside the back wrapper of the book that was stamped with the return-by date. Ah, the 90s! Simple…

  • Growing up

    Growing up

    Growing up in life, I have heard a lot of adages. One of the things my dad used to say whenever I demanded things, just because my friends had or did, was — “If your friends ran and jumped into a well, would you do the same?” I wasn’t bold enough to tell my dad…

  • Nature makes the man

    Nature makes the man

    I have always wondered why people live in places with harsh climate – why struggle every day as if it’s a battle to be won? Having been in Sweden for a while now, has brought some perspective into that thought. For most people, their place of birth is their home – the place where they…

  • Ah, the great outdoors!

    Ah, the great outdoors!

    “Ah, the great outdoors” is a dialog that a Dryad (character in Warcraft III) says when the character is trained and ready to be controlled. It is perhaps one phrase out of the thousands I’ve heard from spending innumerable hours playing the game that I remember often. As a self-proclaimed ambivert, my weekend plan is…

  • If

    If

    “If you can..”, it begins and lines out an entire persona of an individual who has conquered life. A life that death feels sad when taking away – such is the life I desire. Here’s the poem by Rudyard Kipling – If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and…