Sushi Speaks

 It has been quite some time since I have reverted back to this site to put my thoughts out. It is just that phase, just past quarter-life crises to be chic. Or is it? Not really. Choices. I did write a lot about this previously but what got me thinking was, are too many choices good or bad? To write out a post, my mind had to compete with all the other choices I had to pass the time. Netflix, a LOT of Youtube, games, books, and even CandyCrush. If my only choice was to write, this site would have been spammed with content like it did a few years ago.  How would life actually be, if every corner of it had only one road to take? Exciting? Boring? Easy? We are at a point in an age where we are inundated with choices everywhere we look. Everywhere we walk in, we have like a hundred different choices to make. There were many references to the choices of cereals in America before I had been there, and I never thought it was not such a huge thing to worry about. I was always used to...

What is it to be in the present? "Live in the moment". How often do we come across the statement? But what it is to be in the present. Sitting under the night sky looking at the stars is the kind of peace everyone enjoys. Would you say it as being in the present? On a rainy day, sitting on the windowsill, hearing the raindrops fall to the ground, listening to your favourite playlist. Would you associate with being in the present?  img source Is there a present? Or is it just our perception of the present? We tend to assume time as a constant. But it is really based on sensory modalities. We are actually always in the past. Looking at the stars, did you ever think that you are actually looking at the past? The twinkling star must have met its destruction many millions of years ago. Even the moon is 1.3 seconds in the past. Even the object that is a meter away from you is 3.3 nanoseconds in the past. The speed of sound is 344 m/s, again, a source of sound that is 1 meter away...