What’s in the age?

How would it feel to fall in love with someone who is older than you by just over 400 years? Surreal, creepy, icky or romantic?  Couple of months ago, I read “The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue”, where the main female character who is cursed or blessed (depending on how to look at it) to

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Why Do We Find Comfort in a Stranger?

If you have problem at work, relationship problem, an affair or sexual issues, who would you go and confide in? Your best friend? Your mom? Your spouse / partner? If you selected one of the above options, then answer this, when did you last share something really personal with him or her? Trust is a

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Going Beyond “The One”

Recently I read the book, “A Severed Head” by Iris Murdoch. The book is a complicated narrative of marriage, adultery and guilt. Not a single character from the book comes out as virtuous and righteous, at least not according to the norms of society that we so strongly abide by. The story although will make

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Is There Science Behind Missing Someone?

Isolation has actually taken the feeling of “missing someone” to an entirely new level. If you are in quarantine and away from your loved one, you will correlate to what it means to be missing someone. “I just don’t feel myself without you”, a very simple statement says it all… To miss someone means you

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