Thoughts of a Mango

Academic underachievers and unemployed people are just two of many other kinds of people who are often treated as outcasts. From kids to elders, everyone fails at many things in life and more often than not they’re ill-treated and mostly by the part of the society that’s supposed to be above such behaviour. First rank students look down on students who fail or barely pass, rich snobs look down on people, the ones who make their lives easier by working hard and doing physical labour with disgust, employed people look down on the unemployed as failures.  Source: Pexels.com/alexasfotos The fact that kids who fail to graduate and people who fail to get employment and people who fail to rise up to have a secure life where they don’t have to work 2-3 shifts a day even when they’re 50-60 are called failures doesn’t make sense and further calling them lazy and dumb should be a crime.  Many people talk about how babies don’t stop when they fall, they fall thousands of times before they...

Since before the information age, humans have been trying to invent ways to capture 360° views of various incidents and pretty landscapes. Back then it was in the form of a panoramic painting or sometimes it was a panoramic photo captured with the help of multiple mirrors set in different angles.  Source:  Pixabay.com All through the 20th century, VR has been repeatedly improved and built upon over and over again. Today, with unlimited resources and the most cutting edge technologies at our disposal, VR has just begun to move past its primary stage of becoming a fully finished product. The field of VR has got some of the biggest players in tech investing increasing amounts of money each year. Despite this, the adoption of VR has been slow, the reason being most of whatever end products available to the public is a product of luxury and not a necessity. Games and videos available on VR have been adoptions of their original version from regular content made for computers, phones...

‘Babies’ was the last show I binged on Netflix. The show is a docuseries that follows 15 babies for the first year of their lives. The show follows eminent scientist studying these babies, trying to understand what goes into being a baby. For everyone looking to watch something wholesome, I recommend ‘Babies’. Source:  Pixabay.com/viscious-speed It shows how even the minutest change in a baby’s environment makes the biggest impact on how it grows into a person. The world we live in today is a very unnatural one. We have concrete jungles instead of trees, we have cars and planes and ships to take us places, we have sanitised even the most unreachable corners of our houses. Some parents coddle their children until they’re teenagers and some stop coddling as soon as they learn to walk and talk. Some teach their kids everything they know and some let their kids learn on their own. Each of these ways has its own pros and cons.  Society has changed so fast that not just babies, ever...

Social Media changed the world forever and its not for the better. There are millions perhaps billions of posts and articles out there that tell you to enjoy the little things and there’s some more of them telling you to pursue something you love so that every day will be like a vacation. Currently, there’s a trend of “normalising” and “IDK who need to hear this”, as relatable as these posts are, they’re also vague in their nature. You’re bound to catch a few fish if your net is large enough.  Source:  Unsplash.com/merakist We forget that the reason so many of us have such horrible relationships and mental health is ourselves. When we were kids if someone treated us like a jerk, we cut them off, we didn’t meet them outside of school, we didn’t talk to them in school, that was the last interaction we had with them. If we had a serious friend who we fought with, we waited till the next morning when we were face to face with them to sort it out, we mostly had the same circles to ...

  Credits: Balla-Schottner  / Source:  Unsplash Our fast and busy life has far too often led society to remind us to “stop and smell the roses” and many of us who don’t find the time try to take it in, in little doses. Yes, it’s important to stop and smell the roses every now and then but what use is it if the rose is wilting away and losing its essence? Focusing on the not so fulfilling here and now, has made us all look at the world without magic and wonder.  I’m a guy who almost always talks about ideas and possibilities and how amazing life is. I’m intense that way, trying to understand how Jeff Bezos has built an empire that has its foot in almost every industry you can think of or what the future of the voyagers is gonna be, out there beyond mankind’s farthest reach, what stories will it tell if found by aliens? What legend will our legacy be a part of? The way the world will change with AI. These are my roses.  Although it’s not as funny as cracki...