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Fun: A way of life

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We have got 6 offers now, only 37 more to get and the road is getting tougher by the minute, the moral quandaries are stacking up and we don' know where to bury our heads...Well enough of reality lets now traverse the realm of my ponderings, and it is a dark place indeed. In a recent conversation with a good friend i was told that he had had enough fun to last him a lifetime and that the time had come for him to get serious about his life, and that got me thinking that is there any concept of enough fun? does this quantity exist where a line demarcates acceptable and unacceptable amount of fun? My life was such that i had to grow up a lot, very very fast and my fun life came later, away from everything and everyone in the serene hills of the Himalaya's. Reflecting further, i was hit by only one logical conclusion, that fun is not an amount but like spirituality, fun is a way of life. Being in a state of no responsibility, having few to answer to, and doing things you are ...

Context is decisive...

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There are a lot of times in your life, that feel like nothing can go wrong, the hits just keep on coming one after the other, there is just no dearth of successes , now here i've seen 2 types of people One, Those who can't believe their luck and go with the flow, making hay while the sun shines brilliantly on their lives, just raking in the moolah while its coming Second, Those who are highly suspicious of this purple patch, those who firmly believe that their life is such a complete unending tragedy that they constantly search for the shadow in the sunlight, start to second guess all of their decisions, start to expect and dread the fall when it comes; Now these 2 POV's are very common, my inference being that life is a cos curve rather than a sine curve, I believe we don't start at 0 and then go on a high, but rather we start at the high and then subsequently we start tasting the lows and as we slide to absolute rock bottom, we recognize those dizzy peaks we were at, ...

Prey for Instinct

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And Deepankar said "Love (Non-platonic, that's you) is instinct. It can be only be countered by another equally strong instinct. Find yourself something for which you have a passion. Something primal, for which the you don't have to use higher brain functions. I'm good at trekking because I fell in love with it first, not the other way round. Find your _instinct_..." And the beginnings of wisdom come from the word Instinct. What is the difference between the king and the horse? and this is not a kids riddle where the answer would be one's a human and the other's an animal, one has two legs and the other has 4 legs. No, Assuming two existences had the exact same form,ability and even power. When one of the two becomes the "king" and rules over the battle the remaining one becomes the "horse" and amplifies the king's power. I'm asking you what's the difference between the two. There's only one answer, It's the instinct...