Statistically, one in four people worldwide suffer from loneliness. Loneliness or social isolation today is more widespread than smoking, diabetes or anxiety and turns out, poses severe risks to health and longevity.
As far as symptoms are concerned cherophobia displays similar ones to phobias and generalised anxiety such as staying away from happiness, believing that happiness will cause sadness, and obsessively thinking about how happiness is related to danger and evil.
One warm morning, a packed train from Lisbon, Portugal brings me to Sintra, a charming little city located in the hills of Serra de Sintra and home to palaces, fairytale castles, castle ruins, water fountains and villas that belonged to royalty and aristocracy. From the number of tourists standing in the train, it is obvious…
The term ‘popcorn brain’ was coined over a decade ago by David M Levy, a researcher at University of Washington, to explain a state of mind ruled by fragmented attention spans.
There’s a party next door. You float into a crowded room with sunshine in your eyes. You become the centre of everyone’s attention. Your main character energy is at its best. In moments like these, when the main character energy stacks up to a series of presumptuous behaviours, main character syndrome is born. A term…
Her make-believe life is exciting, almost sensational.
Her real life is equally compelling.
And one day the two intersect.
Few years ago, I put my life savings into a coffee plantation in the south of India and named it Coffee Slopes, because growing, harvesting and subsequently brewing my own coffee and drinking myself into a caffeine heaven every day for the rest of my penniless life was my end goal.