Vani's Blog

Life is like an experiment. If one fails, then we have to write a new hypothesis and try again. I don’t believe that there are any right or wrong answers to anything that you do. It is more so about if you want to or feel like you want to do something or not. I say “feel like” because emotions play a huge role, sometimes the most important role, in our decision making. I don’t think there is ever a decision that is completely independent of emotion, be it passionate, motivational, eagerness, happiness, etc. I know you must be thinking why I put the first 3 as emotions since they are not part of the primary emotions. It’s because for me, they are the most strongest secondary emotions that root from happiness and excitement.

I, personally, tend to keep experimenting with my life through and through. I have this never ending need to keep trying new things that other people around me don’t or have never taken interest in. So, I get to hear a lot of “you are weird” or “i don’t understand you”, but let me tell you, I would rather have that than being stagnant and boring. I probably wouldn’t be able to stand myself so I can’t expect other people to stand me. I will tell you some random things I have tried, like clay making class, painting, martial arts, reading different genres of books than what I would normally read, and many more but these are the ones that I can remember on top of my head. I know these are not really out of the world crazy things, but there is a consistency like something new or almost new needs to keep happening. Those are the experiments of life.

It doesn’t end there though. We experiment with our emotions and how we treat others all the time. Especially for my thinkers out there, you know what I am talking about. It’s like you are having one conversation with another person and then after they are done, you have a million little conversations in your head about the responses you had and could have had. Or, even when you know you want to have a conversation with someone about something specific, you play that conversation in your head and assume their responses and then respond accordingly and obviously, you do it in a lot of different directions that the conversation could go in. It’s a whole experiment in itself if you think about it. Learning about people, their reactions, your own emotions to it is a whole hypothesis in your mind which, sometimes, is right and other times, it’s not.

So, I will say, don’t be afraid and keep on experimenting. Life is too short to worry about everything. Learn your lessons and move on and keep on creating those hypotheses.