Gun To Head

It's like 3AM and I can't seem to sleep, I think it's because last week this time I was still getting over Avicii (wow I miss him, last week he came to South Africa- Best two hours of my life). Anyways, it's been a hectic first term at medical school and studying this hard is definitely one of the most challenging tasks I've committed myself to. It has however, in it's overbearing pain, taught me numerous things, of which I'll discuss taking action in life, the Series Theory and how you actively seek out experiences to build an identity...

GuestBlog: Kyrtania Pather- Picking up the pieces, or moving on to a bigger picture

 Goodday friends, family, fellow bloggers, internet stalkers and people pushing for the best in life. This week we have something new. Someone close to myself decided to do a post for LeapToFly which I loved and decided to post. She didn't give it a name so I tried to sum it up as Picking up the pieces you currently have in life or deciding to move onto something better. Seeing as the end is relatively powerful I'm not going to ruin it by telling you to leave a comment after the ending... So I'll remind you to do so now, Leave A Comment ;) Anyone wanting to also post for LeapToFly can email me @ bavinashpillay@gmail.com... Here goes:

How Death Keeps Me Alive

What's happening people!

Been ages since the last post, I know, but medical school is heavy and there's ton of things on my mind that I've got to get straight so my blogging time has been depleted to almost once every three weeks. I will be posting more often seeing as I'm adjusting to the changes.

By dying I mean not living the life you deserve 

( Charlie Sheen)

Today I want to talk to you guys about this deep appreciation I have for life. The way I see it is eventually I will die; and when I do die, what if some Supreme Being tells me that I was in heaven before I died, I just didn't know it. When I think about it, this could be heaven because we have the ability to make any choice, do anything and act in any way. You can have, do or be anything you want- every depiction of heaven gives you that ability.

Sure you might say " but I didn't ask to fail", sure you didn't... but how badly did you want to succeed?

The Chain of Pain

The events of the past month of my life has left me questioning a lot. A lot of negative events have occurred yet there's something amazing I can take away from this.    

See we all face setbacks in one form or another, and because of this, we get sucked into a Chain of Pain as I like to call it. Everything from stress to anger to despair to any negative feeling can be traced back to this chain, in my experience. And here it is:

Why holding back is good, but not great...

Quick history lesson. Personally I don't believe that human beings evolved from apes ( in the tradiotional sense as it is taught in schools worldwide) yet I do believe we are somewhat related to the astrolopethicus (to some degree). My belief is that we all resemble our grandparents, our grandparents resemble their grandparents, their grandparents resemble their grandparents ( and so on) so that we can trace a family lineage back to the days of tribes and hunter gatherers.

During the time of such hunter gatherers, it was easy to get killed. By walking into foreign territory and exhibiting some sort of skill, the inhabitants of the group could easily get intimidated by such behaviour and retaliate by using a sharp object to kill the intruder in a clubbing motion.