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Stories, reflections, and moments that shaped me.
Earning An Honest Living, The Best Christmas Gift
A very happy holidays to everyone. As the holidays were passing by, we had the privilege of having some of my parents friends come over for the holidays, Avi and Darshit. Avi was the son of my dad’s childhood friend and Darshit was the son of my Mom’s college...
What Turning Thirteen Means To Me
It has been one year since, I got my blog as a present for my birthday. It has been the best gift, because of which I have been able to stay connected to all of you, my dear dear family. Many say, “With great age, comes great wisdom”, or is it power and...
The Art of Giving In
The art of giving in is a very simple topic, but it can change many lives. This includes your own life and other people’s lives around you. There are two types of giving in. The first type of giving in is saying that I am superior or greater than you, therefore I am...
Heart Versus Mind
Summer was fun and school has started for a month, it seems that I have not written a blog in forever. While school is not as much fun as summer, this is the time when my mentor, friend, and guru, Rajen uncle visit us in California and I wait for this all year round....
The Power of Listening
Most people think I have a short attention span. They are right, but one thing I noticed about myself is that even if you don't have a long attention span, you must still listen for as long as you can. This blog was inspired out of the blue when my mom and dad said,...
The Secret of Extracting Joy, To: Parth
This blog is special as I would like to dedicate this to my best friend and brother, someone who is always there for me all the time, Parth on his birthday today. Parth, I wish you a wonderful day. As I was writing this blog I was thinking of you and the fun times we...
India on the Move – Witnessing the Future
My trip is progressing extremely well. As usual I am discovering new things, but I have been experiencing and witnessing a country going through tremendous evolution under a great leader, Prime Minister Modi. Sometimes we think to evolve things need to be complex but,...
Socialization Marathon
The monsoon weather here, in India is great. The rain showers are warm and welcomes you to dance with it. My dad has arrived and it is pouring heavily, but we are excited to start our socialization marathon. In the next 48 hours we will meet more than 50 members of...
The Joys of India
So far summer has been a blast here in India. The first place we went to in India was Ahmedabad. We went there without my dad, since he had to finish up some work in the U.S. Over there in Ahmedabad, I met my aunt, uncle, and two cousins. In Ahmedabad I got a chance...
Elevate To Great
Wow Summer has started and we are already 15 days into the month, time surely goes by when you are having fun. It has been great reading what all exciting things many of you are doing for the summer in response to my last blog for which I am grateful. Well for me...
Summer Time – Discovering Treasures of Life
Well it's summer and I am excited. You must be thinking what Hidden Treasures am I talking about. All year long I am busy with school or other extracurricular activities and do not get much time to sit and down and focus on things I want to learn, new things I want...
Iqbal – Controlling Anger
As mentioned in Iqbal - Never Give Up, Iqbal was very determined, but you may not know that he couldn’t control his anger growing up. There were several things which contributed to this partially his disability with his speech, the fact that while he was passionate...