Author: Megan V. Dooley

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon, and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.” -Mother Teresa God is the creator, the savior, the motivator, the Knight in shining armor. He is there with us and for us at times of joys and darkness, when we smirk or frown, at times of dusk and dawn, death and despair. The Holy Almighty is paradoxical.…

I’ve never looked at life and its happenings from the “death point-of-view” and this certainly isn’t something my conscious or subconscious state opts to brood on often. You could say, with the rigorously hectic deadlines of a student life, I stumble upon the thoughts of correlating life and death on the days ranging from occasionally to never. Writing about such a thing of high magnitude is quite mentally challenging but I’m set to embark on the journey of holding on to this moment and reflecting on the quality of life I’ve lived until now. I was well aware of the…

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop We are often kind to everyone in our close-knit group of friends or the associates in our nearest proximity. We believe in the acts of kindness and offer assistance to someone who is in a dire need of a helping hand. We are non-judgmental towards the mistakes made by others. Some might think of us as an epitome of kindness and generosity. Kudos to us, the kind souls! But when we stumble and fall, and find ourselves lost in the darkest alleys, we tend to belittle ourselves.…

We have been fed with the idea of how “Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder” ever since our minds could grab the sense hidden beneath the meaningful yet mysterious phrases. Call me rebellious for I believe that my beauty isn’t for you to judge and vice-versa. The underlying principle of attracting someone and being irresistible in their eyes is co-dependent on the opinion you have about yourself. Close your eyes and think of all the traits you admire about yourself and the things( related to personality) which you used you could dispose of. If you find the right…

I would define myself as a voracious reader. Reading forms an integral part of my everyday life so much so that even when a pile of bulky books is on top of my head, I find pleasure in reading literature when I take mini-breaks. Upon my journey of reading novels, I came across Kafka’s works. I am currently reading “Letters to Milena” and the opening sentence of the book, particularly from the preface, seemed to be relatable to today’s topic of discussion- love and attraction. “Writing letters…means to denude oneself before the ghosts, something for which they greedily wait. Written…

The most coveted dictionary of our time, the time of the millennials, the Urban Dictionary describes an empath as “a person who is capable of feeling the emotions of others despite the fact that they are themselves not going through the same situation”. I’ve come across this terms on several occasions, the recent being whilst watching You’re the Worst where Chris Greece ( a.ka. Jimmy Shive-Overly) describes himself as an empath. If you aren’t aware of the term yet, don’t fret about it at all for I find pleasure in informing you about what the term actually entails. Several types…

We have all seen their intimacy with our bare eyes, or even overheard the conversations of the people, who are madly in love with one another. They are stuck to one another by the ties of intimacy. Isn’t that what we all crave for in a relationship? Relationships take time and enormous efforts from the parties on both the ends. The bond doesn’t develop overnight. You need to work on it constantly. You need to be patient enough to allow some time to sink in before the bond is developed. The more patient you are, the stronger will be the…

Flirtation is all rainbows and butterflies until you start to actually consider whether or not things can sail on a serious boat between you and the one who you are flirting with. It gets more complicated when the potential lover who you are flirting with gives off the vibes of mixed signals. He might burn with jealousy at the sight of seeing you with some other guy and then the other moment, he might pull off the act of playing it cool. Trying to know what the other party actually expects out of the thing that’s going on between the…

There are different kind of texts that are designed to be sent to different classes of people and by class, I mean the position that they hold in your life- whether it be of a family member, a friend or a partner. I’m sure that you have heard a Mom Joke where a mother, being totally unaware of what the abbreviation stands for, ends up texting her son saying “ John, your uncle died. Poor family. LOL”. Oh, dear! “Lots of love” was what she thought LOL stood for. I’d have rung up my mother at the immediate instant if,…

You know the lamest detachment technique people use while breaking up with their flings, don’t you? Well, it’s the infamous “It’s not you, it’s me” statement. If you’re ready for a relationship and have been so since longer than you can even remember, then it might really be you in this case. You might have defaulted in one way or another whether intentionally/ unintentionally, consciously/ subconsciously that made you land in the “no-mans-land.” I am a 20-something-year-old female and with the time constraint as well as the career plans, I can’t find time for love. Moreso, I’m not interested in…