Be Different

Being an adult is, perhaps, the hardest thing to do. Early days on, you are titled as the man who is going to eradicate the term “Poverty” from the family. From the day we are born, expectations are stacked on our shoulder. Mothers say, “He will be a doctor.” Fathers say, “He will be an

Childhood Scars

The season has changed. One can see dense dew on the suburbs early in the morning. It can be like a mountain of a task to get out of the bed and go for work. Hot coffee’s and warm toasts have become the customary breakfast. Even the season’s reminded Max of his cold life. Even

Depressive Couple in God’s Palm

I vividly remeber, we had this conversation about our future. She told me that the things between us were not working out as we had imagined. I kept silent. I kept listening to what she had to say. How could I have said anything? For I had kep her waiting for years. I kept saying,

Depressive Couple

Depression can have a devastating effect on close relationships. Sometimes depressed people blame themselves for their pain, sometimes they blame their partners. It’s shocking to see them turn into cold and blaming strangers. After years of affection and intimacy, depressed souls suddenly declare that they don’t feel love, even worse, that they have never loved

Personality Changes Induced by Mental Stress

At one time I didn’t want to stay still. I woke up early and had so many things to do starting from playing mobile games to doing physical works. Though tired, I felt content. So many things have changed over the last couple of years. I became what I thought was tragic when I saw

Cost of Unintentional Bullying

The year was 2003 when my father got transferred from Thimphu (Chamgang to be precise) to Mongar. It was new place, new school and definitely new faces. First day of school everyone was nice. First week was great too. Then on the second week, a group of boys, a grade senior than I was, cornered

Mental Liability

It doesn’t matter when you were born. 1995, 1996, 2001, 2005, it doesn’t matter. From the time before you were even born, our parents invest their invaluable time, love and money in us. Of course there isn’t even a slightest of intention for wanting those investments back from us. But it should be our prime

Things to Remember When You Fail at Something

I have been called a big failure my entire life. I have failed so many times in my life. So much so that I honestly believed, at one point, that it was my destiny to fail and I was born just to withhold the tagline “FAILURE”. For a common man with no job or money

Relieving Your Mental Stress at Home

I once read, on the last page of one of the books (I can’t remember the name of the book though.) in the library of the college I studied in, where someone wrote “What is the saddest thing in life? An aloof body with mind in solitude.” I lacked the intelligence to understand it then,

Days of an Unemployed Graduate

Get up at 7 am in the morning, brush my teeth, wear my Gho, have my nutritional breakfast and then school was where I went. The days used to be jolly with seldom scolding’s from the teachers for not writing the homework or sometimes for putting a frog in my classmates shirt. The days were