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My love for self-organization

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As I have begun to observe my reading habits this year, a pattern has already emerged. The hours I spend on Goodreads must definitely be more than those spent on Facebook but perhaps not Insta, although that is another story altogether. So I dug deeper to understand what it is that makes me tick. The two major themes that I follow while picking up a book to read is that I should be interested in earning more about the topic - it could be something I have minimal knowledge of or something that I am deeply interested in. Any information that I gather is stored away in neat compartments in my head. Secondly, it is relate-able - either I am able to imagine myself in that situation (or want to be in a similar situation in my fantasies) or I have come close to experiencing something and want to know how others have dealt with it. I have always known my fondness for stationery, I bought so much of it back from Europe that I am surprised at myself. But guess what? Today, as I was reading an ...

It's time to sit back and let my words do the talking

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Hello everyone! I don't really want anyone to know about this website. Not the people I know personally anyway. I have this unfounded fear of being judged. I've seen it to often and been a part of it too often. In my daily life, I worry too much about what people think of me, whether they think I deserve the success I have received so far and so on. I have this deep dark fear that people probably don't respect me for the person I am. To counter all these thoughts, I build a wall around myself. Only difference is, I am a very social person. I love listening to people, sharing ideas, gossiping and everything else a young girl my age likes to do. I don't like drawing attention to myself but secretly enjoy the attention I get. This is my life and this is how it has been for the past 25 years of it but I think it's time for me to make an effort to change this. As someone studying in a coveted B-school in India, one has all the options in the world regarding the ...