From Contentless to Contentment
I am back with my blog after a span of 15 months. The reason was that I was not busy in academia, but I was trying to keep my deteriorating health and career. I used to be a firm believer in “Only dead fish go with the flow”, but with time, I realised that altering the natural flow is exhausting and gets me nowhere. It is well said that when life hits you hard, hit life harder, but this is not always true. Sometimes, you must sit down and observe the flow. In the past few months, life has turned up to the worst of its phases, although it is not easy to claim it as worse. The only thing that worked for me was the concept of ‘Taoism’, which is the art of not trying. Many times, life asks us to act and ‘not try’. Even many circumstances need not be backed by logic or scientific reasoning. Nothing works when you are going through failures and rejections in your profession and deteriorating medical conditions that cannot be reverted back. The only thing that works is embracing ...