nitesh pandey

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” Life is like a journey on a train...   with its stations...   with changes of routes...   and with accidents !   We board this train when we are born and our parents are the ones who get our ticket. We believe they will always travel on this train with us. However, at some station our parents will get off the train, leaving us alone on this journey. As time goes by, other passengers will board the train, many of whom will be significant - our siblings, friends, children, and even the love of our life. Many will get off during the journey and leave a permanent vacuum in our lives. Many will go so unnoticed that we won't even know when they vacated their seats and got off the train ! This train ride will be full of joy, sorrow, fantasy, expectations, hellos, good-byes, and farewells. A good journey is helping, loving, having a good rel...

Most often, people run into the problem of "not knowing what they want to do in life" because they place SO MUCH VALUE on knowing 100% what they want to do in life. Friends , I am sharing the views of a renowned author with whom I got a chance to interact with. I know this plight well.   In college, I went through 4 different majors in 2 years before I found something to settle on—and then what I settled on wasn't even what I ended up getting a job doing.  First I studied journalism, then music production, then poetry, then piano performance, until finally deciding to stick with creative writing.  And now, I work as an Associate Creative Director at a Think Tank and ad agency in Chicago.  This doesn't mean that I still can't be a poet, or a pianist, or a journalist, or a music producer—I still do all these things in my spare time.  On that same note, just because I'm an Associate Creative Director doesn't mean that that's all I am, or that...