Other's - Help

This is an opinion (just like everything on this space)

There are a lot of "Self-Help" books being written around and it has turned into a full-fledged genre of writing for a lot of people who have great advices, stories and anecdotes to narrate. The problem however, is that the genre has very quickly become saturated and overhyped with everything being generalized and that too in such a way that every self-help books sounds & looks the same at the surface level; sometimes even at the deeper levels of the texts.

Self help has gone far from being a 'getting to know yourself' kind and this shift in perspective of writing makes no sense whatsoever because the genre that was supposed to set itself apart from other genres and was supposed to be a huge middle finger to all the novels/novellas for being stereotypical and monotonous in their approach and now these self help books have itself turned into something of a staple advice, sure-shot insecurity hitting, money making machine of books. The way people talk about it is what drives me nuts further regarding these books because people behave as if the book has all the answers they were looking for and how the advices in the book(s) has changed their way of thinking, living, hell, even breathing for god's sake! At first I thought that the people who mindlessly wrote these books are nuts, but as I unravel further, I realized that the people who bought into the same bullshit through numerous titles are even bigger nutjobs from up there.

That's why, I've decided that I want to write and start a genre called "Other's Help" which can serve as a segment for books that talk about how to help others, because that's one of the main reasons why self-help books became popular, right? So that we can gain enough knowledge about humans and help our fellow humans? Now, I'm just cutting the middleman out and starting a genre in itself that talks about helping other people! Do we or do we not feel like helping other people out when we start reading any kind of self-help books? So, how about we just learn about how to help other people instead of going round in a circle, talking about discovering ourselves first and helping people out later, because we clearly aren't interested or excited about knowing more about ourselves (because if we did, we'd be way better than what we think we are right now)

All I'm saying is that this could turn out to be like a mini revolution in itself, right? To write something that is specifically aimed at making us understand how to help other people because a lot of dimwits are anyways knee deep into other people's business, so might as well give them something that makes their snooping around fruitful. Win - Win, right?

That personal tragedy

A poem by Samyak Shah

Driven by fear
By the people near
Packing up extra strong
For the beating to come

Callous and careless
Now the image isn't spotless
Strangled by my belonging
That's running around the neck

Negativity spikes
Hallelujah, Yikes!
Had it coming on you
Even if its not on their mind

The great feat
Of a great beat
Comes after the bruise
While the attacked cruise

Rightly had it here
Yet my death ain't so near
'coz tortures the lane
On which the world likes to drive

Even if I apologize
They'll still demonize
Saying I'll remain a cheat
Despite the bows and the touched feet

Probably sadistic
The world's animalistic
Taking both the sides
For the advantageous rides

Not being a victim
In the one-sided system
While the voice echoes wrong
Accusations roar like the bloody king kong

Yeah they're special
'coz they're a filled vessel
While the spills don't interrupt
Their filling streak

We get it that you're loved a lot
Kinda like a female Instagram thot
For no good reason the case is open
Justice gets served and the bones broken

Isn't equality meant for both sides
Where's that gone amidst your victim strides
Okay I get it I made a mistake
For how long for forgiveness will I beg?

It's from actions not words is what you said
Au contraire mon frere you walked into a trap that you only laid
Welcome to your tape 'coz hubba you're screwed
Congratulations, 'coz the score's now a deuce

New year, New me?

“Dead people receive more flowers than the living because regret is stronger than gratitude”

- Anne Frank

I firmly believe that the world might just be beginning to fix itself from the issue that it has been long suffering. The issue of “The ‘Should have’s and The ‘Could have’s”

‘Should have’s and ‘Could have’s

A lifestyle, a way of living that is filled and fueled with regret, hope of vindication & redemption, turning our lives into the kind of lives we’ve grown up watching in movies wherein everybody around you doubts you and you prove them wrong and show them their place and everyone begins to feel guilty for having mocked you and underestimated your skills and what not.

That’s not how the world works apparently.

Alright, I’m here to break your bubble and inform you without even an iota of inconvenience that we cannot always get our way with everything and no matter how butthurt you feel, it ain’t gonna change just to massage your ego.

This is the perfect time for you to begin bringing in the change as you’re anyways parading the whole ‘New year New me’ hype train.

So, this year…

I dare you to not second-guess yourself

I dare you to hold your own self accountable for the things you have in your control

I dare you to live one day without worrying too much about the future or the past

I dare you to not guilt yourself every single second!

I dare you to begin working on your ‘I wish's and  'I could’s

And more than anything,

I dare you ‘To begin living in 2020’ 

(refers to our constant need of staying stuck and to keep on re-living our past mistakes and then feeling guilty and hung up because we feel that if we do not show the world we’re still sad about it, someone or the other is going to see that and is going to make us feel bad about it by reminding us and insulting us with this sentence: ‘So you don’t even feel bad about what you did? Maybe that’s because you it never truly mattered to you, did it?’)