Nayana's Stories

  What is happiness it is that feeling of joy and peace and contentment with the self. Happiness also allow us to dabble in multiple aspects of life only when you allow yourself to be imperfect you express that sense of joy and fulfilment which you do not otherwise feel. The sense of perfection comes when you put a pressure on yourself to do something or be something which you are not. It puts a compulsion on your being and pushes you towards competition and comparison with others or yourself. Perfection means it is an attitude or a goal that one would try to achieve. Many times you play games and you lose it but how much have you enjoy a in process of playing a game. Most of the times you are caught in winning and losing and achieving a perfect standard. This does not allow you to be yourself and just dabble with whatever comes up. If you really have to be happy in life the goal of perfection should be kept at a distance because otherwise you are only comparing and competi...

  Growth is a very constant worry for most of us in life. All of us are continuously in the mode of asking ourselves and checking on what has been our growth parameter. Growth is defined in different ways for different people and different context. Most of us think about growth only in the physical form. But do we really reflect on the other parameters of growth which are not physical but mental. Mental growth means you’re growing in areas like human values, beliefs, convictions and ways to live life. It also contains the container which holds principles of life progressive dreams and aspirations and also where you are in a certain span of life. Mostly we get preoccupied or engaged with physical aspects like beauty, looks and how tall we are, fat or thin etc. At times we don’t reflect on the beauty that is within each one of us. All this is determined by what are your definitions and assumptions around what you perceive yourself as a grown up human being.  Author:-Dr...

  When we admit our children in schools what is the criteria that we reflect on while making these choices. How do we consider which is the best school for our children? Education is such a holistic process that it contains diverse paths to it. There is academics there is brand of schools as an institution, human values a futuristic vision and many other criteria. Every criteria has one against the other and can carry more weightage than each other. The Philosophical perspective and vision is also important to consider while taking admission. What is this perspective? It talks more of values that the children internalise the sense of responsibility and leadership they grow up with the integrity and ethics also play and important role v/s academic marks. So there are schools which aim at getting the highest academically whereas there are school which promote a holistic and value base education system. The choice always remains a dilemma because parents constantly dabble th...