Great Expectations How much of a social butterfly are you? Or “How big is your friend circle?” I’m pretty sure it must be a big one if not so small. With communication being more affordable than ever; thanks to new network service providers and social networking sites, people are talking more than ever. But with more and more people talking, hearts are heavier than ever.  According to the data from Moment an activity-tracking app, it shows that it is possible for light social-media consumers to be happy. Nearly 63% of Instagram users and 59% of Facebook users report being miserable, and they spend an average of nearly an hour per day on the app and the ones who are happy spend on average just over half as long. “Will you be okay, if you get bad in return for the good that you give?” I’m sure most of us, even I won’t be okay. But that’s one of the main reasons behind the remorse. Dr. Steve Maraboli once said “Expectation feeds frustration. It is an unhealthy attachment to...

The Routine Life “I live a very normal life. I have friends and I’ve always gone to school. The part that’s not normal is that I’ve been working since I was 9 months old, but at the same time, it’s completely normal to me”. This statement by Ashley Olsen must be relatable to most of us and why wouldn’t it be? After all, it’s the same monotonous life most of us, if not all of us, go through. Now the question arises, is life just a monotonous routine/chore? Certainly not. It largely depends on how we perceive it. For some life is all but struggle work and progress; for others it is about philosophy or art or fun. For philosophers like Aristotle life is about happiness, to which I largely agree. But still we cannot deny that a significant number of people find life to be monotonous and devoid of purpose, and it is reflected in the rising graph of mental health issues and suicides.           Yet, the question remains why life is so ...

Assimilating Paulo Coelho’s,  The Alchemist “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” Yes, indeed! When we give our best to something honestly, there’ll be no force that keeps us away from achieving it. It is not an exaggeration but a concept assimilated by over 84 million readers of  The Alchemist  a reality lived by many more.  Born on August 24, 1947, Paulo   Coelho de Souza, a Brazilian novelist and lyricist, has become one of the world’s most celebrated authors who holds the Guinness World Record of ‘the most translated book’ by a living author. As a reader in my late teens, I find his ideas strong enough to shape the vision of my life. I see the dreams, faith, omens, love, religion and spirituality explained by Coelho to be realistic in all aspects. We all have thrown stones, but have we ever thought that the stone reaches near the point, if not exactly to the point where we had imagined? I g...

First Post Hello and Namaste to all the visitors to my new and first blog. If you are one of my friends you must know me more or less but to others let me introduce myself. I am Raman Budhathoki-basically an optimist, pessimist at times, believer and an enthusiast for literature and a football fan.I'm a native of Ilam, Nepal. I'm pursuing my career as an undergrad student in Mechanical Engineering at Kathmandu University currently.                  Regarding this blog, this has been my first attempt and i'm sure there can be plenty mistakes if not less on the content that i'll be posting. I'm indebted to my friends who have come across and encouraged me to make a blog and publish the articles(which i rarely write :P). The content i will be sharing on this blog will be largely on literature and few on technologies. The articles will be influenced from many books and of course the global network-internet and besides i will try to b...