Thoughts of a Mango

‘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...

  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...