Razia Sultana
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Silent tears
A couple of months back, my mother stopped eating. She was continuously feeling drowsy and fatigued so much so that she was closing her eyes every now and then out of drowsiness. It was an absolute shock for me as she is a workaholic. She had the capacity and urge to work the whole day relentlessly. So what's wrong with her? After getting all her medical examinations; doctors said some sort of infection in her body, very low sodium and hyponatremia and needs hospitalisation. After struggling in ICU for 10days, she got septic, was frequently going into coma and there was no sign of improvement. On the 17th day of her hospitalisation she had a heart attack after which she was put on a ventilator.
By Razia Sultana4 years ago in Confessions
Metaverse - Synthetic happiness
Why do human beings get so easily drawn to things like alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, vaping, binge eating, binge Netflix & Amazon Prime shows, work addiction, expensive lifestyle, etc.(to name a few as the list is really very long). Even when the consumer knows that these are detrimental and the happiness and pleasure from these things is temporary (till the time you are consuming it); he gets magnetically attached to these items. Once these are shut down, the consumer goes further down the dark alley of his mind. On the flip side, even if we are prescribed in black and white by the most expensive and well renowned expert doctors to follow a healthy lifestyle of waking up at 5AM, go for morning walks & exercise, meditation and yoga, early evening wind up from blue lights; we struggle to get at practise even 10% of these rituals and even after accomplishing this 10% within a span of a month or so; we allow to let go of these habits excusing ourselves of hardship to inculcate them in our daily regime. As humans, we want to reduce pain & enhance pleasure. We are also lazy. So, to get desirable outcome of pleasure & forgetting our inner pain by putting minimum efforts we take to synthetic happiness. With this insight; let’s explore whether “Metaverse” can generate synthetic happiness and subsequently a seamless world for generations to come.
By Razia Sultana4 years ago in Futurism
FREEDOM FROM THE GOLDEN SHACKLE
Throughout my life journey I have travelled so far, I have closely seen ISHITA(name changed for not disclosing identity) who is my cousin, slowly getting freedom from antidepressants, sleeping pills, mood swings, weight gain, long sessions with a psychiatrist and related things you can think of. This intrigues so many questions in my reader’s mind. Why, in the first place, I termed it GOLDEN SHACKLES. Then, was it easy to get this freedom? Who helped? Let’s dive deep to get these answers.
By Razia Sultana4 years ago in Motivation
