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2020-06-09
It is hard to pack everything that has happened in these last few weeks into one blog post. I mean it has been a pretty eventful time filled with walking my cows, making some incredible friends, and getting E. Coli. So where do I begin? I guess I can talk about the cows. During the...
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As David Foster Wallace explained, a fish does not know it is in water. In fact, he might even ask what water is, if you told him he was in it. Yes, we have all these things around us, but we often do not recognize it or how impactful it is. As I am nearing...
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14/05/20 I started doing meditation for half an hour every evening with Sri Sri Ravishankar Ji's live session on Facebook. He gave an interesting theory today. He says, "We all think that the mind is inside the body. But it is actually the other way around. The body is encompassed and but a part of...
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28/09/19 Fuck, fuck. I think that I may have done something really horrible. Here I was feeling all sad in the afternoon because my host brother wouldn't play with me. So I go for a walk to try to get a change of scenery. I buy some chocolate nuts and am on my happy uneventful...
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17/09/19Today I realized how important it is to just ask sometimes. I have always felt irked about how one of my friends would keep changing her voice and influxing it with different frequencies. Usually, she takes on the form of a baby voice which seemed to me like she was trying to act cute and...
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30/08/19Today, we played the circle of love. Or was it hope. Either way, it was absolutely amazing. Everyone in the inner circle stood with their eyes closed. While the outer circle went around tapping them on their shoulder when they agreed with the prompts. The prompts went as such:Tap the person who made you feel...
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29/08/19This isn't how I thought that I would be starting off with my first real blog. I thought that I would be writing about how I am super excited, and yet nervous, and have so many things I want to do, yet intimidated slightly, something along those lines. Instead, here I am about to tell you...
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28/08/19I am at Stanford now. Here's to new beginnings. I have changed my name. I go by Ruj now. I hope I can change too.
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15-08-19It's finally here. I'll be leaving soon. I've got quite a few goals that I wish to accomplish. Even though they tell us to come without any expectations…I can't. Because there are things that I wish to change in myself. And I hope I can achieve it through this year. I am finally leaving the...
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