Tag: Friendship

• How do you handle toxic people? Comply, confront or cut off?

  

  I gained two kilograms in the past week, thanks to the cold weather. I wasn’t allowed to venture out to exercise as Bangalore climate has never been kind to me. As I spent hours sulking this morning, I remembered the exact reason why I pushed myself to lose weight in the first place. It was…

  Arpita

  October 29, 2020

  Mental Health, Society

  destress, Friendship, gossip, healthy relationship, humor, Indian society, inner harmony, inner peace, Mental Health, Mental Peace, Relationship, self care, self confidence, self love, social, social interaction, social pressure, Society, stress, toxic ideas, toxic people, toxic thoughts, trauma

• White Nights

  

  This is an old story I wrote for some short story competition. For some reasons unknown, I find it easy to read and soothing for the soul. Hope you’ll would like it too. “Can’t you see I am trying to shoo you away?” my voice is stern this time. But it’s funny how animals sometimes…

  Arpita

  June 1, 2020

  Literature, Memoir

  ab mujhe raat din, cat love, feel good stories, feel-good, fiction, Friendship, life, Memoir, memories, Mental Health, Musings, pet love, poem, Poetry, Relationship, self love, short story, story

• Revisiting the Oldest Story on Friendship

  We have great stories about Ram, Sita, Krishna and Radha but the way we learn from them is still not fully understood to me. We revere Ram and Sita and want to emulate them. We take vows of Bhagvad Gita, the song of Krishna. Yet, when it comes to his two biggest relationships, with Radha…

  Arpita

  August 9, 2018

  Society

  Friendship, Mythology, Opinion, Society