Category: Days of Enlightenment

  • Quote Challenge- Day 3

    Final day of the challenge! My third quote from Paulo Coehlo’s The Alchemist. Be thankful for your health, before you start falling ill. Be grateful for your family and friends, before you start losing them. Be thankful for your present moment, before you start fearing the future. Be grateful for your hair, before you start…

  • Quote Challenge- Day 2

    Thank you Gary of Fiction is Food, for nominating me for 3- Day Quote Challenge. As I mentioned during the first day, I will be quoting few favorite lines from Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist. How many times have we grumbled about things going wrong in our lives, while doing nothing about them? Though it doesn’t…

  • Quote Challenge- Day 1

    I was nominated for 3 Day Quote Challenge more than a month ago. Thank you Gary for giving me a way to keep myself motivated to get back to my blog after being dormant for a while. Rules of the Challenge: Post 1-3 quotes for three days Nominate three other wonderful bloggers to the challenge…

  • Zootopia- #AtoZChallenge

    If there is one alphabet that I was sure of what to write about during the AtoZChallenge, it has to be Z. Ever since I watched the movie Zootopia two months ago, I wanted to put down my thoughts about it. It’s been a while since I felt like writing about any movie, especially animated.…

  • WordPress World – #AtoZChallenge

    WordPress has been one of the best things that has happened to me in recent times. Like everyone else on WordPress, my passion to write landed me here. However, I had no idea what I had in store, nor did I know what to expect. All I knew was that I have too many things…

  • Validated Values- #AtoZChallenge

    “Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave them all over everything you do.” – Elvis Presley Values are deep rooted. There is significant influence of culture, religion, upbringing and awareness on values one develops as an individual. Hence they are prone to differ from person to person. But values are contingent.…

  • Testing Times- #AtoZChallenge

    At some point in our lives, we are prone to encounter a continuous series of unfavourable events. One after the other, as if they have all planned to come in at once! Testing times are more often presumed as bad luck or ill fated life events rather than an opportunity of instilling the endurance seed…

  • Selfie Stigma – #AtoZChallenge

    When was the last time you visited a new place and left without taking a ‘selfie’? If you somehow never really cared about the need for a selfie, well good for you! But if you did, err..there might be an issue here. I wouldn’t deny the fact that I’m afraid I’ll soon be a part…

  • Random Acts of Kindness- #AtoZChallenge

    The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention- Oscar Wilde It was a snowy day with fast blowing wind. My friend and I were walking down the road, against the windy snow to make our way to Walmart. It was one of those initial days of being an international student in…

  • Perfectionist Problems

    “Do you think this is alright? Or should I put in more color for a pop in the background? Err, may be I’ll just leave it, sometimes simple is beautiful. Oh, wait! But it’s too simple. How will a cosmetic brand like something without enough color? Arghh, God! I just want it to be perfect!!“,…