A Pessimistic Optimist

Just another teen stuck under existensial crisis

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What is my relevance in a pool of so many others.

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What should be my next read????

What should be my next read??

The Final Gambit

The Summer I Turned Pretty

Voting ended onApr 17

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Pretty Dress Trap

When you avoid doing something, just because you don't have a pretty dress to wear for it.

This should seriously be a thing, because, I'm just procrastinating reading this book from my fav series, just so I can read it later wearing a cute dress with a nice cup of tea and brownie!!!!

Do you agree girls?

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Why should anybody care?

Since, past one month, I have barely posted anything. Be it an article or a piece of poetry. And as I impulsively wait to see what people think of my latest post, I am left thinking, "Why should anybody care?"

Let me explain,

Starting a blog is a huge step, although it only takes a few clicks to make an account, it still is a huge leap. Putting forward your thoughts for millions of people to read, is a huge leap. It takes a lot of courage, writing your first post, a phase where even just one like, one comment, puts you on cloud nine. BUT what after this phase, when the euphoria of making a difference fades, the feeling of connection, when you start to feel as if you are just posting for it to get nowhere, be read by nobody, how does one keep going then?

Which makes me wonder, why should anybody even bother reading my amateur writing, when there are so many more well established writers out there? What can I do to reach out to more people, help more people? How do I expand my blog. There are just so many posts that I make thinking they would get a good response but nevertheless only to my disappointment. I make yet another post, pretty sure it will get lost in the void because- why should anybody care?

I am pretty sure a lot of you have felt this way. But kudos to you guys for taking this step and for continuing to move forward! Share your writing journey, by re-blogging this post, so that it can inspire other young writers. Looking forward to reading your response!

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- TIMELESS BEAUTY -

The mortality of a thing, is what makes it beautiful.

Maybe, the flower will never bloom again. But I am glad I was present there to witness this beautiful moment, a moment that made me fall in love with it. This truly made me think, how an artist's work transcends time. The artist would not be there forever, but their artwork will be cherished for centuries to come.

And therefore, I call my piece- Timeless Beauty.

~A

P.S. I hope that the watch and the flower portray the concept well

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We live in a world that works on profit not pursuit.

-A

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Social Media: Making people more competitive not connective

Today we cannot imagine spending our day without social media. So many of us have businesses running on social media platforms, so many of us learn more from online education platforms than at school and here I am sharing my ideas and art on a "social media" platform.

But is social media still the way that it was meant to be? Does it truly serve it's purpose of connecting people world wide anymore? Or has it become all about more profits, more screen time?

Today, it rings full of AI slop, pretentious ideas and very little originality. I was a Pinterest junkie, but ever since "AI modified" tags started to show up under most of the posts, I really just stopped liking being there.

I don't go on social media platforms to see the fake glamour. I go there because I really want to see people creating, I want to connect with fellow artists, read articles that get me thinking instead of some hollow AI generated slop.

For instance, you can always ask Ai to summarize Shakespeare, but only a true human can make you feel its true essence.

Art is beautiful, there are so many times where when you start with something, make mistakes, work through those mistakes and end up with something a lot more better than your original idea. Art isn't about generating endless ideas, it is about exploring the one you really enjoy. This itself has happened a lot of times to me in the past. I am sure it happens to other artists too and that in fact is what makes art truly beautiful. It is those imperfections in the brush strokes that end up making a master piece. Maybe we do not have countless art works made by famous artists like Da Vince or Van Gogh but the ones we do have are that make us feel, they make us feel something. Arthur Conan didn't write multiple perfect stories everyday but the one book he published is what has inspired so many of us. Art, writing is not about creating endless perfect content, it is about creating the one that expresses how you feel, helps you connect with others. That is why they say that art is a form of self expression.

But here we are in todays sad era, where art is all about profits, playing human emotions is all about profits. You are rarely allowed to express yourself until it generates profits on a social media platform. The algorithm promotes meaningless slop instead of genuine creativity.

I want to go to social media platforms and be able to simply connect, not compete.

An incident

tbh most annoying part about this all is how the most recent generations who have been raised with it, don't tend to realize that, when i see kids randomly saying 67 and ask them to explain what it means , they very well say it means nothing and yet fail to answer when i ask why would they say something that means nothing! I don't blame them, they were born in an era where meaningless content has become an issue. I am not blaming AI, as AI needs a prompt from somebody to generate this slop. I blame the people who misuse it for profit, to spread misinformation and harmful rumors, I blame people who value views more than genuine interest, I blame corporations who care more about their share holders than their consumers.

Do re blog this post with your own touch, so that this reaches more people and helps raise an awareness!

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People photograph what they fall in love with in the moment. A photograph isn't a mere picture, it is a moment frozen in time

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Can we hear the music?

Algebra is like sheet of music. The important thing isn’t can you read music, it’s can you hear it. Can you hear the music, Robert?

Can we hear the music?

We are often taught to read sheet music at schools but never taught to embrace and recognize the way notes play in the universe.

We know the words but we barely do know the tune and hence we don't acknowledge how beautiful everything around us essentially is.

Therefore, each time you learn to read something new, question how the tune plays out in the real world around you!

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Thinking about your future ruins your present,

Thinking about your present ruins your future,

And then thinking about your past ruins both your present and your future.

P.S I am the third one....

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Best thing about ice cream is that it melts, Best part about life is that it ends.

I was just texting a friend, and then I mention how on my Japan tour I had Matcha ice cream. To be honest the one I had from a local stall was far better than one I had from 7 11. It's just the one at 7 11 had a distinct chemical taste and it wouldn't melt. Just thinking about this whole incident, I just realized how sometimes these minor inconveniences are what add on nostalgic value to certain things.

Maybe ice cream isn't as "joyful" when it doesn't melt. And maybe we won't value life the way we do if it didn't end.

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Life is a gamble of what if's.

And those who play more, win.

Now hear me out when I say this,

When we try out something new, to be specific when I try out something new, which I personally like doing a lot, be it a new dish or drink at a new restaurant or a new way of doing something, I always do so with the thrill of simply trying new things.

But earlier (incident dump), when I went out to a restaurant with a sibling, and they asked why'd I try a new dish, when there's always a possibility of not liking it, my immediate reply-but what if I like it!

That was what made me realize, how most of the things we do in life is always a successive action of the "what if".

We always place our bets on what if it works out, and when chances are high we go for it.

But humans don't like bad things happening to them, so they often underestimate the chance of it happening. We think that if we don't think of bad things happening to us, bad things won't happen to us. A common phenomenon with toddlers and kids, they think when they shut their eyes and if they can't see the world around them then the world around them can't see them either (basically they think they go invisible). Because they are yet to develop the sense of how the real world works. But so many of us still apply that way of thinking in so many things that we do. We underestimate the probability of us falling into the less successful group.

This so often creates a mismatch of what we are capable of and how far we are from it.

We often fail, not because we didn't work hard enough, but simply because we made distorted measures of the world. Sometimes, it's our insecurities or delusion that make this happen, sometimes it's the unnecessary critiques around us who only criticize us out of ego.

Growth mindset isn't simply blindly believing we can achieve anything, a growth mindset is believing that with effort in a particular area you can increase your odds of achieving that anything.

A growth mindset is letting yourself be a child again, and giving yourself the freedom to explore and make as many mistakes possible in order to learn from them!

A growth mindset is simply being a child by heart, but a rational adult by mind!

-ArtsyVamp1

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So often, I find myself lost.

Each time I don't know something, each time I hesitate, I realize, the world around me speaks a different language, has a different culture, as if it is altogether a different world.

Each time I find people talking about a trend I've never heard of, each time I see people my age hitting mile stones, that's when I realize how behind and left-out I am from everybody.

Each time I see people achieve something, I always wonder how do they do that? Often clouded by jealousy and envy I miss out on so much that I've done too. Sometimes, I just feel that maybe the person who said nobody is useless, was wrong. All my failures, in spite of all my attempts to avoid them, make me realize how inherently rotten I am.

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I am the person who spoils everything.

No like literally, I love giving movie and book spoilers :p

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Just trying to find something to commit to, to make me distracted from, and to make it justifiable, how crappy my social life is :)