I read the book "The Love Hypothesis"

I finished reading the book on June 3, 2022 somewhere around midnight! 

 

Image: From GoodReads page

It just took longer for me to sit down and finish reading a book, and it happened to be that "The Love Hypothesis" happened to be the one book I finished after a long time. Everyone has a reason for reading a book. For me, I liked Richa's book review and went for this one and borrowed one from the library. The book reached our house via the Corvallis benton County library's home delivery support the second week of May. Well! Perks of being a Ph.D. student is that you hardly finish reading your book and are never able to finish those and you end up barely reading for pleasure. I remember Suman saying this- PhD is so intense I hardly read for pleasure. Well, I have stopped having any time for anything for long. Maybe time management is my weakness. I really need to work on this and be able to manage things, read and work. this is for some other time- that how I mess things up. For now about books.

Well, my fascination with getting the books from the library never ends, and thus this book came home too. One thing that drew me to the book was the life of a PhD student and the academic life in general. I finished the read yesterday (June 3, 2022) in a couple of sittings before my finals week because I just needed this liberation of my thoughts to gather and work for the week ahead! It made me realize I can finish books in 5-7/8 hours. It's been a while since I did that!

I could relate to so many instances. Like the one as follows (such important one to think abut when doing research). Need to be kept in mind always.

And at many points, I saw AJ as the professor giving suggestions to their students. Why they are the way they are.

Academia is heart-wrenching at many times. You feel like a fool when you don't know but there are some who are supportive as well as a critique. So, so be it. There are times when you don't know the things you don't know and you will slowly know and move ahead. You will keep fighting the way you do.

It's tough. But maybe it will keep getting easier. Will take time but maybe it will. 

Metta!
Images: Shot by me from the book (Image 1, 2 & 3: Pg 89, 119 & 120 respectively)

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Days !!

Not every thing you think is always true, not every thing you act up-works out to be the best. It's just that you try. Amidst trying though a large part of you vanishes in between but nevertheless you try. You try to preach. You try to tell things in a better way and you try being a better person. But somewhere, sometime you loose a large part of you in doing so.
You fight and then reach nowhere. That's exacerbating a condition. Such Banal days!

Metta !!

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The waitings!

I waited
all those moments
just to see that smile
and the smile
just vanished
in a fraction of while

The waits I made
were worth of it
though it last not long
those were my feels
in the momentarily bliss
had it been no wrong

Some more thoughts
just flung along
as flipped the time hereby
I waited again
to feel those moments
and just bid a goodbye!

Metta !!

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Existence

It said,"I don't feel like existing."

"Shh ! Existence is the best being, you can be in," I tried to convince.

It smiled.

I smiled back.

Metta !

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Waves Of Thoughts via Bagmati...!!

Serene yet Worrisome BAGMATI

Well, some moments are always the same and so are Some feels...You actually happen to have the same emotions time and then when you are in/around some places or some moments...

Well speaking it off, being around Bagmati has always had me get captured into some such feels may be which cannot be expressed by few of my words but even then I could not stop my hand from jotting them down and post it inhere.

Seriuosly, when one just feels Bagmati mind gets pious indeed

The stillness it has.

The ray of Hope,

The Religious vibes,

The happiness for some, and reluctantly the sadness for others....

Where the Bagmati attaches you to the world thereby it takes you away from the world [the cremation...oops..:(..]

Witnessing all the goodness and badness of life...witnessing the life-the death, witnessing the love for it, witnessing the love and hatred around it, witnessing the 'shraddha' for it and also witnessing the politics over it.....

There is the BAGMATI always ready to give, yet nothing will it need…

Metta !!

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