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Category Killer Questions

A growing collection of writer Shafali Anand’s answers to the killer questions or the hardest questions that we ever ask of ourselves. These questions range from existential to philosophical, to psychological to ethical.
She answers these questions not as an expert but as person who is as baffled by them as you are – some of these answers explode into another set of questions, others settle in a corner of your mind…stoking your curiosity, yet telling you that there’s a crazy woman somewhere in the world, thinking about the exact same thing.

Ikigai – Finding Purpose in your Existence (OR) Finding Evanescent Effervescence

Today, scrolling through my linkedIn feed, I came across a post on Ikigai or the Japanese philosophy that helps people find purpose in life. It had an interesting Venn diagram of overlapping circles, with Ikigai in the center. What I… Continue Reading →

Exploring the Depths, Gehraiyaan, Evil vs. Dark.

Inside, we are all real. Most of us know how the mind works and unless we are losing our minds, we understand the motive and intent behind all our actions. We know our fears, our triggers, our weaknesses, our strengths… Continue Reading →

The Writer’s Block dissolved and I Wrote a Story.

The writer’s block dissolved and the neural network sprang into action. I spent the last week writing a story. In this story, I am a little girl in a dystopian world. Writing this story made me twist my world-view around… Continue Reading →

How Real is the Illusion of Free Will?

Do I have free will? Each of the past fifty mornings or so, I have been waking up wanting to write my next book, a novel that centers around a subject that’s closest to my heart, but I end up… Continue Reading →

Existential Crisis, Existential Questions, and Existentialism

What is an Existential Crisis? Existential Crisis is what we experience when we start waking up with an uncomfortable feeling that life is gradually losing its sheen. We begin to wonder why we exist, what is the purpose of life,… Continue Reading →

Can Wrinkles be Beautiful? (The Changing Nature of Beauty.)

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary says: (Beauty is) the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit. Makes sense, especially with the “pleasurably exalts the mind or… Continue Reading →

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