Damselz-In-Sanity

Heyy! Welcome back to month 3 of  'Faltu Friday' where I talk about something totally random. Today I wanted to talk about my most awaited part of the year- Durga Puja. It's one of my favourite part of the year and the reason my blog is so successful. Welcoming Deity Durga along with her children year after year with grand spectacle has become a major part of our lives. The very journey of picking up the idol from maath to the visarjan is something that makes Durga Pujo so wholesome. The atmosphere of pujo outside Kolkata is analogous. Durga Puja in Mumbai is not completely based on idol worshipping but also making the festival lively with intricate detailing in all aspects. Right from the design and theme of the pandal up to the cultural programs, every preparation is made so much in advance which makes Durga pujo so much more exhilarating.  Personally, my most cherished aspect of Pujo is the variety of food stalls. ‘Anandamela’, the day when we put up stalls and sell a ...

This wheel was created by Robert Plutchik to illustrate different sentiments and responses a person has to different situations. We often tend to have have a mixture of feelings when something surprising or stupefied comes across. Whether its good marks in an exam which you thought you would fail or you're having an anxiety attack or simply just a surprise party. There's this mix of emotions which cannot be expressed in words because of the overwhelming feeling that comes on us. We often tend to be nonplussed and perplexed when such kind of circumstances fall upon us that we end up reacting completely different from what we are feeling.  Let me draw a picture for you. Imagine, you're up till 1am studying for an exam the next day. You're stressed because it's a really important. You're crying and studying and trying to cope with the great stress but you ultimately come to stop and decide to sleep. Next morning you give the exam. There's this blend of relief b...

  Heyy! Welcome back! I tried avoiding writing about this topic for a really long time mostly cause I didn't know how it felt to go through it until I had a conversation with my friend on this topic. We came across a post on social media based on this topic and how its affected innumerable number of people who are confined in their homes. Staying alone with your thoughts is itself a scary thing. But for over 7 months?! That is literally a devil's workshop. A lot of people weren't allowed to leave their homes for natural reasons. This has led a lot of people to overthink and has caused a lot of people's mental health to be scarred. Numerous types of anxieties and stress have developed over the course of these 7 months and  in some cases it has gotten serious. People have drifted apart whereas some have gotten really close. I relate to that because people whom I didn't even know last year are now one of my best friends! Nevertheless, I wanna discuss about a few activi...

  Heyy!! Welcome back!! We've all had our ups and downs. Whether it's a bad day at home or at school, there are some days which just aren't yours. Perhaps you woke up on the wrong side of the bed or got scolded for something or just felt lonely. Maybe you felt like Antonio from 'The Merchant Of Venice' who didn't know the reason for his melancholic mood.  You should know that's its completely fine and we all go through it very often. Nevertheless, the bigger question is how to overcome it. I have jotted down a few of my favourite ways on how I like to de-stress at the end of a bad day. My most preferred one is binging TV shows. I make myself a tub of popcorn and start binging 'F.R.I.E.N.D.S'. Its one of my favourite shows and it goes without saying how iconic it is. It lightens up my mood in a few minutes and helps me forget about the stressful day I had. Another one I'm very fond of is Talking. Sharing what you feel with a friend or trusted pers...

  Heyy! So one of my favourite pass time of all time. Sleeping. I'd doze off any time, anywhere regardless of what time it is. A lot of you might.                                                                                     Feeling low-Sleep                                                                                                                                 Stressed over something-Sleep    ...

 Spectacles.  The most annoying thing right? I did a survey of around 15 people who have specs and literally every single person said that they are the most irritating thing on earth. I agree to this too. Welcome back to month 2 of  "Faltu Friday" where I talk about something totally random which ya'll may relate to :) I got chashma  about a year a ago and OMG its literally been the worst thing ever! Well after braces. It initially started out with a low negative power but then it went zoop after a few weeks. For me it started with not being able to see my school board AT ALL. It was all so hazy with words jumbling up, which probably most of you experience if you don't wear specs and try to look far.  After 3 weeks of this, I finally came around and told my mom that I needed specs. So naturally she first took me to a ophthalmologist to check if I needed specs. After the entire process of the eye-drops to going to the shop and getting glasses of the correct power...

  Heyy! Welcome back! Today, I just wanted to throw some light on an important issue that's prevalent. I wanna talk about 'why' rather than 'what' it is.  Therapy. None of us wants to take this seriously. The one's who do, get bullied for it. The terms 'psycho' and 'mental' come to mind when you come across a person who goes to therapy. A lot of people don't even know what it is and assume it as something wrong whereas some don't even allow it and some refuse to believe that something like this exists. Why? Why is it wrong to seek professional help when you cannot deal with something yourself? Why is it so hard to accept the fact that someone is mentally disturbed and cannot open up to his peers? I'm not talking about adult therapy or child therapy here. I have come here to talk about teenage therapy and how it needs to be normalized in our society. Lots of people go through changes which they fear they cannot talk about openly to the...

Hey! Welcome back!! So, this is related to an incident that I recently went through and for some reason it just affected me more than it actually should.  I had my first tuition test a few weeks ago and ended up scoring sorta low because of dumb mistakes. Sometimes you know the answer, yet you end up writing the wrong one. I'm not kidding. I wrote wrong answers even though I knew the correct one's because I was stressed about the test. There was a question where the correct answer was Volume but I ended up writing DENSITY! It really bummed me out because I had really prepared for this test and lost it due to frivolous mistakes. It took my best friend around 3 days to get me out of my melancholic mood and accept the fact that it's okay to make mistakes. He gave me this really long pep talk on how I should focus on my next test instead of worrying about whats in the past. And that's what really opened my eyes. I was sad because of something in the past whereas I could be ...

  Something that has become prevalent now more than ever; a nother type of cyber-bullying, ‘teacher bullying’ is literally the act of teasing them online.   We all know that social media urges people to act impulsively online. A lot of people make accounts by their teachers’ name or post their pictures online or make ‘memes’ out of them. It might make you laugh or might feel relatable but you need to know when to draw the line. There are some which are simply offensive and cannot be tolerated at any cost. How can you stop? STOP POSTING VIDEOS OF THEM WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION! Stop posting their pictures on your story with weird filters and stuff because it's RUDE!    Probably show them SOME respect? I don’t think its so hard. They’re working on a platform completely new to them to teach YOU and they are trying their best. It is disappointing to see how we treat them after what they do to help us.   Try putting yourself in their shoes. They just want what’s b...

  Heyy, Welcome back!! So, what you might read today, might not necessarily apply to if you haven’t had braces but if you want to know about what the procedure is and how it works this is your place. I got braces in 7 th grade. Not gonna lie, it was weird. Well at-least for a few weeks. I was just starting school and 2 days before I had those super painful brackets put on my teeth. They added A-LOT of pressure on my teeth and I had to survive on ‘khichri’ for an entire week! No, no, I don’t mean to scare you here. It wasn’t THAT terrible. I had them for two years and to be frank, they were one of my best years. They really suited my face and once I had them off, I cannot emphasize this enough, I looked bad. I looked so bad for a few weeks without them but lucky for me, no one could see it because of my mask :) I didn’t have a lot of struggle with them. I could have all I wanted without even feeling it. The only thing I had to give up was having gum. Which wasn’t very easy for me g...