“I think humans are only sane when they’re lonely. So I think I’m saner at night.” – My Liberation Notes.
I never really thought the fictional world would bring me so much comfort and I will love every second of it. K-dramas have a special place in my heart and I will forever be grateful to find comfort in it. I am starting a new chapter in my blog journey where I will be reviewing dramas and post-book reviews. Mostly I watch K-dramas, Japanese dramas, Chinese dramas, Thai dramas, and Taiwanese dramas. I have been a K-drama fan since I was 14 years old. Back then it was not easy to watch K-dramas as we did not have an internet connection and I didn’t know where I should watch. But I do remember my first ever K-drama was Playful Kiss and at that time I thought it was a Chinese drama, seriously? Also, I was obsessed with Housefull, the Thai version. So I thought let me expand my area for my blogging journey as this will also help me with my experience and simply it’s fun. I will be reviewing and giving my opinions on the dramas.
As for books, I have been reading them since I was 16 years old and it’s been years of my reading journey. I am a very particular kind of person about what I am watching and reading. If I don’t like it then I don’t like it, which is okay. I know a lot of people shame others if something popular is not enjoyed but let me tell you everyone has different tastes and if the majority likes it that does not make that drama the best and vice versa.
So shall we begin, we shall! I hope you all will support me and don’t hesitate to leave your opinion.
Someone being patient with you is one of the softest forms of love. – Rookie Cops
Till we meet again, Be Happy, Be Grateful, and Keep Smiling – a girl who likes to write.
Don’t you just sometimes want to sit in front of the ocean alone and just think about everything that is going on in your life? We all deserve a break in a beautiful place where our minds and hearts are at ease. It is so important to have days to shut down our brains and just relax in the moment. Till today I have realized that work and study are forever and the stress from both will be with us throughout our lives. However, amidst that we might miss the opportunity to live in the moment. We might think let’s finish work and then take a break but tell me how much of it is possible? None. The importance of taking a break is not talked about enough. Work makes people so exhausted that living life is like living in a machine that has already been set on auto mode. Being mentally exhausted is like zooming in on a random point that feels like it is suckling you in and there is nothing you can do to zoom out of it. People have so much stored in their minds other than work like the different talks, feelings that have left us strangled, the feelings and emotions that we can’t let out and it is eating us from inside. Life is meant to be like that. It is all about ups and downs, yes “Ups” means we all will have that moment when life feels like it is great, don’t be afraid of challenges they will at first break you but without even noticing it will also make you strong.
Live a little – live a day without worrying about what the next hour will bring you, live without thinking about the next second, live like your heart feels happy, live carelessly until an inner smile has not made up to your face. Life will hardly make you feel great but that does not mean you don’t have the right to live contentedly. Life is like a dark door but with cracks that allow light to pass through it so Live a Little.
Never regret anything that makes you smile.
Till we meet again, Be Happy, Be Grateful, and Keep Smiling – a girl who likes to write.
Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.
Is it important to have days where you feel like you are getting nowhere? It is important to have days where you feel like a failure. Is it okay if you have a setback? The amount of time I have felt that my life and hard work are going absolutely nowhere is just insane. Life is so funny on one side they make you feel like you are in heaven’s bed and the next moment it throws you from the stairs to the road of hell. Even though many say that life is all about ups and downs nobody gives you the solution or assurance that everything will be alright. But this world will blame you for not working hard and not meeting the expectations of others. If you look at setbacks they test you till you are at the end of a dark hole, they never let you come back again easily. When people say that you truly understand what life is and what you are meant to do is when you are in the worst situation in your life. Your setbacks will make you feel that you are the worst to live and no positivity can reach out to you. Funny isn’t it? Then what is it that is supposed to reach out to us to pull out of the endless setbacks? The answers that you need to find yourself! If you are struck just think why you decided to do this and choose this irrespective of so many options and then there will be so many answers to it and maybe more questions for yourself and believe me, you will find the answers. It is said right that what we are truly looking for is within us just don’t let things like setbacks hold you back for things that you truly want. Embracing failure is the key to success because a person should know their weakness as they are the reason why setbacks can’t hold enough and you can break through them.
setbacks HAPPEN…go get it again
Till we meet again, Be Happy, Be Grateful, and Keep Smiling – a girl who likes to write.
Women. What a powerful four-letter word that holds so much power within to face the world full of so much. I will say that looking up to a woman is such an empowering tool for many other women. Being a woman in this world is not a cup of tea, but we all are still standing with our heads high and ready to face challenges. Bleeding every month, carrying a child for nine months, giving birth, looking after yourself and your family, achieving dreams, being a good parent to the child, dealing with failure, bringing a shoulder for people, and an endless list of things that women have to do. Being a woman seriously gives you a different level of confidence when you start to look at yourself in a new light when you start to believe in yourself, and when you start to take your life and dreams seriously. You don’t know how powerful you are and I am here to tell you that you as a woman are the greatest gift to the world and never ever doubt yourself. Being a woman is not easy and you are already doing it, so I am so proud of you and you shall also be. You have your own glow that will most definitely shine just remove those things and feelings that keep you away from it. You are a shining star in the darkness that saves the world from being cold and a happy sun that brings warmth to the world. Don’t limit yourself, you will truly know your limit when you will go beyond the imagination of what you can really do. Also, when a woman supports another woman, it is the most beautiful thing to exist in this world as we rise by lifting others. Let me tell you that you deserve the world and you are the only one who can give that to yourself so fight for yourself and show yourself how much you love being a WOMAN!
Happy Women’s Day to all my wonderful and strong women who have such an incredible aura like a queen on the throne. You are the best and nothing can change it:)
Real queens fix each other’s crown.
Till we meet again, Be Happy, Be Grateful, and Keep Smiling – a girl who likes to write.
Nothing is working out, until yesterday everything was going fine I thought I was on the right track and with time everything would settle but here I am today writing this blog post about the feelings haunting me day and night. I do know I was always the person who did so much yet never received the success that I dreamed about Alas! After all, I might reach somewhere but it only takes a day to make me feel that I am standing in the same place or maybe I have dropped more. The feeling of failure is the worst after doing so much yet you still failed, I failed and the funny thing is that it hurts so much yet you can’t do anything about it, it makes you look like a loser in front of YOU. What answers to provide to others when you can’t even give yourself one. I don’t know why it is so hard to accomplish things that you are good at, I don’t know why things never work out, I don’t know why nobody is ever satisfied, and I don’t know when the hurt will ever heal or it will pierce every dreams and ambitions like glass pieces shatter everywhere. What is worse is that all the hard work, all the sleepless nights, all the expectations, all the dreams just never seem to be fulfilled, and yes I am in that place. My age is increasing and I am still standing at the same place with nothing in my hand yet I can’t do anything about it. Tears want to drop but not a single drop left as my inside feels like a desert barren land empty where nothing is visible. I am lost and everywhere I see myself looking tired and hollow like a failure.
The user is mentally exhausted.
Till we meet again, Be Happy, Be Grateful, and Keep Smiling – a girl who likes to write.
It might be shocking to the people that morning people do exist. I have come across many posts saying that now waking up has become a joke to them. To be honest, all thanks to my mother because she was always very strict with me about sleeping early and waking up early and of course school. I never liked missing school, obviously for friends. Even though I stayed up late, I still love to wake up early in the morning if my morning is late that means my whole day will be wasted as I will be so tired. I remember the time when I used to have a good and long sleep at night but I used to wake up tired. So my father explained that anything more than we need will only destroy us. I don’t know what really makes me happy about mornings but I can say that I get more time to do things without being lazy. I remember when I finished one of my important exams I remember reading every book available on Wattpad and even ignoring my friend’s messages that they had to call and check if I was okay. Pretty old days when you just had to think about exams and once it’s finished you could enjoy until the next semester. Can’t believe that being an adult means dealing with so many things simultaneously. Exams are not even finished yet we still have to think about our next step or pending assignments that are just piling up it does not seem that we are completing anything because work never finishes, it just fills the place that gets vacant by the old work ‘Sigh.’ Every morning is like a ray of hope where everyone is sleeping. Yet, you are awake to find how beautiful the world is and just seeing the birds fly, the sky waking up, the sun rising, and quiet amidst the world’s chaos. You get to just forget your problem and breathe in the air that surrounds you because for you it’s just you, the world, and the sunrise that is eagerly waiting for your achievement and silently cheering up on you, Oh, I love being aMORNING PERSON!
Today I will be a ray of freaking sunshine.
Till we meet again, Be Happy, Be Grateful, and Keep Smiling – a girl who likes to write.
Happiness is not about getting all you want. It is about enjoying what you have.
Mind is one of the main reasons for our existence. We humans tend to overthink a lot. We know we can do it, but we will still overthink and pressure ourselves and our minds. When you realize that mental health is so expensive that no money can buy it. When you realize in one moment while sitting that there is a smile on your face yet from inside you are so hollow that a breeze of wind will turn it into ashes. When you realize that the surroundings you are in are not bringing you comfort, that moment is the most horrifying because you have to start it all again. Finding the surroundings that truly make your mental health good is so hard. Like friendship groups in our childhood we have many close friends but when we grow up keeping up with everyone is not a cup of tea. And you realize that only one friend is all that matters. Mind is a very complicated part of ourselves; we truly do not know what we want at the right time. It all happens when the realization begins that maybe some decisions should have been changed. Past really takes a toll on our mind, the trauma that we all dealt with never leaves what if the same thing happens again? What will we do? It takes a lot of courage to give the mind a piece of advice that it is going to be okay, to reach somewhere we have to try, and nobody is perfect, and that is okay.
People nowadays have seriously stopped caring about their mental health, and it is nobody’s fault you can’t blame anyone. It is the time that brings phases of things we wish to never live, yet it teaches us a lot. If you can take care of your feelings, and emotions then making your mind happy is not that hard. I will always say choose yourself over anything. If you are truly happy from inside then you are truly happy. I know it’s very hard to find things that make you happy, but unless you won’t find them you won’t know it because happy mind happy life!
She loved her life and it loved her back.
Till we meet again, Be Happy, Be Grateful, and Keep Smiling – a girl who likes to write.
A single phone call invitation for my mother and me to visit another state in India allows us to extend our memories by capturing the beauty of our country. On September 24, 2023, four of my family members (mama, mami, aunty, mother, and me) booked our train tickets to Ahmedabad, Gujarat from our hometown for 12th January 2024, Friday. Since then my anticipation especially was on top of the mountain as it has been ages since I have travelled a long distance by train precisely to be 10 years.
December, 2023
I started a new journey towards my career and so far I am loving it. I got the news that my exams will be in January now when I didn’t know that is how my December month started. Amidst all the wedding season, studying, lectures, and overthinking sessions I got the notice that my exams would be postponed. Yay to be honest I would not mind if I had not gone but still, I would hate that I missed the opportunity.
January, 2024
Finally, the new year came in 2024 I did not realise it because of all the tension of my exams even though it was postponed but still I had my internals that could start anywhere in January and I did not want to miss any lectures. I prepared all of my projects to be on the safe side. Then finally the preparation of packing and we were supposed to do a lot of shopping (my mother) there so we took a little with us.
12th – 15th January, 2024
At night we reached the station and started the journey and on 13th January we reached Ahmedabad and were welcomed by a winter that we didn’t get where we live. We Indians have that thing wherever we go we have to have tea so we have a cup of tea to soothe our souls and proceed to the place where we all will be living for the next 3 days. The place is just beautiful and calming and where we stayed every day all around the place there is a market of clothes and vegetables which makes it more lively. We all enjoyed every second of living there since the atmosphere and people were so friendly and lively. We all visited some of the famous places and got to know the history behind them. Ahmedabad has such a historical culture from food to places everywhere you will find yourself surrounded by heritage. Also, the second you look up to the sky the flocks of birds just pass through you and huge flocks of birds fly together it was just beautiful to watch. And also where we were living there was the airport close by so I saw many aeroplanes up close with my bare eyes and it just felt like a special memory that I will hold forever.
If you know me you know I LOVE FOOD, and I really wanted to try authentic Gujarati dishes, and I did and loved it. It was refreshing to try something different and delicious. Then comes the part in which I have a hate relationship with shopping. My other family members shopped a lot and I have this book lover thing in me that wherever I visit I look at if there is any book market near the place and same I did and found a book market so on the last day since we already had a handful of luggage I just bought three books and I am grateful for it. The weather and the foreignness of the sweater on my body were so much appreciated by me.
The trip was great and fun we all laughed a lot and I even learned some Gujarati words. It was refreshing that in three days we all did so many great things. With the right people even the wrong time becomes right. I never knew taking a trip, even a small one, was so easy only when you have the right people and the attitude of just doing it.
If you never go, you will never know.
Till we meet again, Be Happy, Be Grateful, and Keep Smiling – a girl who likes to write.
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
It is really dangerous when you start to feel, and it is more difficult when you don’t know what are you feeling and why are you feeling? I was never good at handling my feelings because I didn’t know how to. As an adult, it is so much that with our own feelings, we have to look at what others feel too, how brutal is that. Here I can’t even deal with managing mine yet, I have to care about others as well, funny isn’t it? Now that I am writing about this post my feelings are all over the place, and I am unable to figure out what actually is happening to me. However, in my course of going through so many feelings, I have realised that you just need to give time that is what I have done and will be doing. You are mistaken if you think that feelings are always about the present or the future no absolutely not it’s about the past that comes crashing down on you. Past feelings and how much regret we have is another kind of inner battle we have to deal with every single night. Sometimes the wound is so deep that it doesn’t even heal physically. Have you ever done just opening up the window and staring right at the moon closing your eyes and just thinking about what is happening to you? Even though the wind is blowing around you and you have plenty of space to breathe, something is suffocating you and the worst is that you don’t know what is suffocating you.
But at the same time when you open your eyes, you see how beautiful the moon is amidst the dark night which everyone is afraid of. But remember the moon and stars will not shine if there is no darkness. Everyone is afraid of darkness but forget once they see how beautiful it makes the world. Just like that if your life is not going great that doesn’t mean nothing will fall in place remember moon also has to go through phases just so that it can be whole and more beautiful.
everyone has a chapter that they don’t read out loud.
Till we meet again, Be Happy, Be Grateful, and Keep Smiling – a girl who likes to write.
“Don’t ever feel bad for making a decision that upsets other people. You are not responsible for their happiness. You are responsible for your happiness.”
1. Don’t feel guilty about choosing yourself. There is no one in the world who can understand you better than you. Being selfish for yourself is not at all bad but it’s crucial for you, for your growth and your happiness.
2. Don’t feel guilty for standing up for yourself. This is one of the problems that I have also dealt with. While standing up for myself and speaking for myself with someone close to me, I do feel guilty but it is important so that you can show others that you are not someone they can step upon. Stand up for yourself, only you can do that and don’t ever feel bad, it’s important to have respect for yourself.
3. Don’t feel guilty about letting go and moving on. I have talked about this in my previous posts. Letting go is important because people who don’t treat you well, will not treat you better if you will work harder. If they don’t care for you then, they will never do it now. Move on from the past, from the people who are best to forget.
4. Don’t feel guilty for accepting the appreciation. If you are good at it then you are. It’s the end of the discussion. Just take the compliment, people gracefully;)
5. Don’t feel guilty for choosing your happiness. You know a time comes when you just have to be selfish for yourself, you are done being selfless. Fight for your happiness and do what makes you happy. I know it’s so hard to make people understand that they are not living your life but you are so happiness should come to you not them. You are not responsible for their happiness but you are responsible for yours.
6. Don’t feel guilty about taking a break. It’s okay to be behind and it’s okay if someday you don’t feel like getting up. You are just preparing to bounce forward hard.
7. Don’t feel guilty for saying no to things that don’t feel good to you. Just because someone else likes it doesn’t mean it will be the same to you and it’s okay. Everyone is different and you should have the courage to say no to things that your guts feel are not for you.
be obsessed with yourself, people.
Till we meet again, Be Happy, Be Grateful, and Keep Smiling – a girl who likes to write.
A girl who likes to write 