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Time flies when you are having fun, and it almost stops when life becomes hard. This might be the best proof of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. In life, each of us has to go through our own battles. What might look trivial to someone may be as important as life itself to someone else. Have you ever noticed how the memories of recent years from your past appear to be longer than your much older memories? As you go further and further into the past, your memories look to be more and more compressed. This is because as we get older, more and more memories take up space in our minds and become a part of our life. To illustrate, consider this example, a 20 years old person has almost fifty percent of their memories to be about their young and adolescent life, in contrast to a 50 years old person whose adolescent life form only 20 percent of all of their memories. So, as we get older, time surely feels to have flown by fairly quickly. So one can’t help but wonder, how much time do t...

I am sure that at some point in your life you must have wondered about the space that lies between science fiction and reality. If not, then at least after watching a sci-fi movie, you must have thought about its plausibility in the real world. Well, for starters, the sci-fi genre is very vast on its own and chances are that at least some of the things which were portrayed as fiction some time ago have actually been brought to reality. For instance, inventions like flip phones, tablets, universal translators, Bluetooth handsets, and 3-D printers are all among such things which are directly inspired by Star Trek. I mean, there was a time when these actual things were a part of the science fiction realm. Think about telephones fifty years ago. Many people must have dreamt about wireless phones and video calls but how many actually believed that one day they all will be reality? Also, the evolution of technology is really fast. It took sixty-six years for man to fly for the first time and...

In the global hub of today’s scenario, can someone actually believe in the concept of privacy which happens to be our fundamental right? Well, to answer a long question short, yes! Privacy is a real thing. The question is less about if it’s real or not and more about who has access to it. If your privacy can be accessed by anyone, whether they represent the government or not. This becomes important because if this is the case, then should we even call it privacy at all? I mean, if it could be accessed by anyone, it no longer is private. If anybody can know with whom you’re talking, when you’re talking, and about what you’re talking then, doesn’t it become a piece of public information to some extent? And our today’s government is adamant about enacting laws that seek to achieve this very thing. No wonder they ask you to write an essay on such topics in government examinations. Seems like they want to know how many people are actually aware of their intentions. Citing national securit...

  “Your thoughts become things.” – Anonymous. This four words phrase is enough to highlight the immense strength that one holds in their mind. The power of your thought is divided between your conscious and subconscious regions. The physical strength that is derived from our actions and motions is nothing but the outcome of a mere thought. I say “mere thought” but in no way I intend to take it for granted. But, before we analyse the power of a thought, we need to understand what a thought actually is. Many psychologists have defined thoughts in many different ways but, in my opinion, a thought is simply a figment of imagination that is moulded by our day to day experiences, but in no way, is limited to such experiences. It’s like a seed that is imprinted on the mind and gets cultivated over time (no Inception puns intended). Now that we have a basic idea of what a thought is, it is time to divide it in its components. Just like I mentioned above, the power of a thought is divid...