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Deepti Malhotra
- Feb 29, 2020
- 2 min
Why do the things that happen to you happen?
Why do we suffer? Why do we undergo struggles throughout our life? Why does life occur the way it does? I’ll not get into who deserves what. However, I will say this, nothing that happens in this universe is random. Everything that comes about does so for a REASON. An anecdote from my life: Last week I discovered someone does something I put a lot of work into much better than me although he started doing it much later. It broke my heart a little to acknowledge it (i.e. to co

Deepti Malhotra
- Feb 28, 2020
- 2 min
HAPPINESS is NOT letting your past become an EXCUSE for a unsatisfying future.
Own up to your mistakes, learn from them but refuse to be defined by them. I'm human and I make mistakes. Some of them bigger than others in spite of doing my best. I guess you do too. Have you noticed that big mistakes often become baggage (regret, shame, guilt, anger) that you carry within long after the mistake was committed? In instances when you’ve successfully dealt with the negative emotions and gotten rid of them, there are people who remind you of your mistakes and l

Deepti Malhotra
- Feb 8, 2020
- 2 min
What should you tell yourself when your world collapses?
When you have hit your lowest low, remind yourself that now the only way to go is up. The precursor could be a break-up or a death or a big failure or losing something you worked very hard for. Sometimes many of these happen simultaneously and leave you feeling convinced that you’ll never recover from the pain, embarrassment, heartache and hopelessness you feel. You become desperate to move forward but don’t know how. Following are things I’ve told myself on different occasio
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