Me laidback

Edging towards the edge of teenage. Suddenly, the prospect of a 17th birthday doesn’t seem that grand. I remember towards the beginning of the year, when my other friends were turning 17, some even 18, they didn’t seem to take it that well. I thought meh. It’s probably the January winter blues. By March, everything will be sunny and bloomed, so will my spirits for my birthday. I think it piled up. There are so many other things which are going around this year, things which feel closer to reality than fancy birthdays, that the simple idea of them seems stupid. Plus this time around, I am not simply growing,…

After many years, this year didn’t seem to fly past me It took its time to make its presence felt every single day until now, when we are reaching the end The biggest highlight of this year is that- I though a lot My thoughts ranged from a wide spectrum of topics. However, 2 major sickouts were – overthinking and thinking of how to counter overthinking. As of 26th December, I think I reigned it well This is also the year where I made new friends and forged stronger bonds with those already. I met and interacted with people whom I had some assumptions about, and they turned out to…

This is not some disease one gets infected with. It is rather a common trope often entangling female protagonists in the movies we watch. And our lovely Bollywood has a special inclination towards it. Growing up I watched various films and sometimes was left with this sense of “ah, I liked the story but I just couldn’t care less about the female lead” or sometimes felt as though the character development was one sided. Enter the Manic Pixie dream girl, the answer to all my problems The “Manic pixie dream girl”, coined by Nathan Rabin is the female protagonist whose whole motive throughout the film is to show light of…

Has it ever occurred, that after watching a very lively and colourful film, full of chatter and laughter- a pit of sadness suddenly forms afterwards, which contradicts the whole purpose of that feel-good film? Why does it happen? I felt it was maybe due to the fact that those experiences portrayed so well in an overly saturated manner, in reality, are quite unachievable. Maybe their far-fetched ness is the cause of this ball of shallow feelings which forms after almost every “happy” film. I in fact am not too far off. A lot of people have felt this emotion and are confused trying to understand this moody teenage kid behaviour…

Listen up I have a pretty good reason to back up my absence. So before we dive into that, I just want to express my elated state as I write again after what seems like an eternity. This rush of productivity is rather foreign for someone who hates to sit and type for hours on end. But here I am Preparing for what is probably the most important school-level examination for any Indian student, which is the BOARDS, is the reason for my absence. I had been dreading this moment since grade fourth, when I heard the term for the first time. After that every where I looked, whether chatting…

I went to Nainital last week Some background light on Nainital, it is a resort town in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, a state in northern India. Discovered during the colonial rule in 1841, it was used as the capital of United province. Nainital is if not, the most tourist-dense hill station in India and there really, isn’t any OFF-season concept here. Why? Because I went here in a supposed off-season period and met with THE WHOLE POPULATION OF INDIA in every spot I went to. But did it ruin my voyaging in Nainital? Continue reading for that. DAY 1 [Reaching Nainital] Taking a super early morning train, we reached…

Technically, this year has already aged by 5 months, but you need to make adjustments in your head because I couldn’t afford to be creative for the title. I am finally a sophomore in High school and I wish it was as beautiful as the term itself. Not so surprisingly, it isn’t the academics that is bothering me. It’s simply the FACT that I AM A SOPHOMORE that keeps tickling my consciousness whenever my brain sits still. Nevertheless, looking at the plenty of overthinkers around me, I am feeling that PERHAPS I am much more in control than I give myself credit for. Either way it isn’t bothering me is…

Hey there. This is melaidback again shamelessly writing a blog after disappearing for months, but being irresponsible is in my gene code. Cant change that Currently I started reading a book that is extremely popular a layer below the usual mainstream book community. You might have heard of it and if you cant recall, this is how it looks So, because I am only done with 266 pages out of the 544, this isn’t going to be a book review. But the book’s significance lies in today’s topic of deliberation- The Dark academic aesthetic. Aesthetics aren’t something I would take heed of, other than the sense of contentment and satisfaction…

I- I was planning to do a year-end wrap-up……but I am stuck and don’t know what to write in it. So instead of being stuck, I will do a different kind of wrap up I can’t believe how much time has passed since I have posted anything about space and planets and moons and all that glitz glam. So let’s pick up where we left and take a look at the biggest and most interesting space discoveries of 2021 No, a star wasn’t burned, boiled or cooked to death. It was simply, um, VIOLENTLY engulfed by a black whole You see black holes are a malignant spectacle. They are scary…