Trendsetting
Assalamoalaikum readers! Apologies for the unintended and uninformed delays in the posting! ……………. Ever reflected on the life that we spend, I mean why do we eat what we eat and why do we say what we say. How do we think and what shapes our thoughts? What affects our decision-making? I have been reflecting on these questions lately, and I have come across two processes that we all undergo; Trend-following and trend-setting. Now in this blog, I am not particularly referring to the clothing trends or the common bandwagons everybody jumps on, but rather, the little things we choose to do and the ones that we don’t deem worth the energy. The decisions we take, the words we pick on to express ourselves and the way we carry the baggage of past, none of it is other than a trend that has been set by some person at one point in life. You will never be able to say that the path I have chosen is unique, you can, perhaps admit that is less-chose route. The fact that we do what,...