by Editorial Team | Aug 24, 2024 | School, St Josephs Matigara Darjeeling
Laying bare the core of our emotions According to Jean Paul Sartre, the noted French philosopher and advocate of Existentialism, emotions are not passive experiences but active interpretations of our surroundings. They reshape our reality, often as a coping mechanism...
by Editorial Team | Aug 24, 2024 | School, St Josephs Matigara Darjeeling
Exploring our emotional mindscape Emotions are powerful. They affect our mood that determine the way we interact with people, our spending pattern and more.. They are inevitable like the waves that rise and fall. It is convenient to label these feelings as “good” or...
by Editorial Team | Jul 27, 2024 | School, St Josephs Matigara Darjeeling
A brief introspection Demotivation is our constant, silent and undesirable companion. Thankfully, however, its presence can be overcome with the right mindset and strategies. Curiously enough, we are not born that way. We are curious, motivated and energetic at birth,...
by Editorial Team | Jul 27, 2024 | School, St Josephs Matigara Darjeeling
My struggle with demotivation Demotivation always comes naturally to me. While I am mostly in control and enjoy every moment, at times I find it difficult to even push myself out of bed. When ‘deadline’ , ‘exams’ , ‘time management’ had circumscribed my life, it...
by Editorial Team | Jul 27, 2024 | School, St Josephs Matigara Darjeeling
Understanding motivation There have been times when I’ve found myself stuck, dreading a task that needs to be done and trying to muster the motivation for the task. I recall the words of the author Stephen King, “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the...
by Editorial Team | Jun 22, 2024 | St Josephs Matigara Darjeeling
A tete a tete with my vulnerability The idea of vulnerability being our strength made me reflect upon a time in my life when I had been vulnerable. The introvert that I have always been, I struggled a lot with social anxiety in the post pandemic years when I was in...
