“Don’t overthink it.”
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It’s perhaps ironic, or beautiful … :shrugs: … that I’m starting this website by addressing a major flaw in my personality.
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Overthinking. To the point of not starting something.
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I’ve been considering creating a website to express my thoughts on philosophy and life in general. It was mainly to address another lacuna … which is that I needed a portal to express my inner thoughts. It’s not easy to express one’s thoughts in a climate where most people are sure of what they know.
That simple idea ended spiraling my thoughts out of control despite my efforts to keep them contained…
- what if someone I know reads it and judges me negatively for it?
- what if I end up doing more harm than good by expressing my ideas?
- could I express myself anonymously? – like writing a book under a fictional name?
- is philosophy best expressed via video? books? blog articles?
After a couple of years of stalling and flirting with the idea, with a couple of half-hearted starts in between, I’ve graciously been urged by a friend to just start it since it’s definitely going to be helpful to people in one way or another. – Coincidentally she had started a website of her own.
So here I am, starting small, but intending for this to grow in some way or the other.
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I intend for this website to feature concepts on life and living, with some practical observations of the world or of life to back the concepts up.
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A short biography about me then.
I studied medicine and became a doctor about 16 years ago. I’ve been a practicing doctor ever since, but also spent most of that time studying Vedanta philosophy, initially on my own and then at the Vedanta Academy India. The academy and philosophy encouraged its students to contemplate upon life, question everything (to a reasonable extent), and pursue a self-created high ideal. 6-7 years into learning the philosophy I started teaching classes on it for about a year, but then stopped when my medical work increased due to the pandemic.
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I have a few ideas I would enjoy sharing with the readers of this website, and I hope to post new articles on a regular basis.
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Ravi.