Like many users of the internet I too am a victim of the attention-span-destroying things that live on the Internet. My attention span is the worst it has ever been and I think it will be the highest it will ever be. This is not a very happy thought. This has also started affecting my work and other reading skills.
Last year was an exercise is cutting out the crap when it comes to digital presence etc.
2025 has been a year of transition: stepping back, recovering, and fulfilling some long term goals. I left a job, spent time in the mountains, and slowly rebuilt routines that felt sustainable. Below are the highlights and ramblings.
These are the two main cornerstones of my personality. Like any other coherent consciousness and too feel a tension between intent vs perception
I did some thinking and figured that the best course of action was to write.
For the longest time I wasn't interested in cooking. I only cooked enough to make food edible for myself, and even that felt like a complex project with little return.
After moving to Bangalore and finding my community, I started taking part in shared routines — hanging out, grocery runs, and informal gatherings. I moved to Bangalore to be closer to friends; to have a village you have to be a villager.
I signed up for a trail run in Coorg called The Coffee Trails 3.0. This is the Instagram Account; please check them out.
I have never participated in a trial run before and I felt that I needed some benchmark just to understand how the entire experience is.
Ive spent a LOT of time belong alone; not just in the physical sense but also in the psychological sense.
I have become an extremely independent person as a result. This super-power comes with its own problems.
For the largest part of my life I have been very very afraid of failing at things.
I have noticed that I do not hold space for myself to fail; even at things that I am just a beginner in.
Last week Tanvi went shoe shopping; she wanted a new running shoe. I went along with her and tried a bunch of them.
What happened next can only be described as magical.
Last month I decided that I would start training to run some of the ultras that happen in India. I wrote about it here. I am targetting to run the SRT ultra 25k. Its a small length but I'm hoping that this would be a good start to my trail-running journey.
The focus of the first month of training was mostly on slow easy runs, which was fun and I got some great volume work done. This was not as structured as I would have liked.
I ran my first half-marathon today. It was quite brutal and overall a very humbling experience.
Check details on Strava
I injured my right knee while running way back in 2023. I remember stepping on a rock badly and that was it. :-/
What followed was about half a year of extreme pain and 1 year of recovery aided by physiotherapy.