“How can man know himself?… For the most important inquiry, however, there is a method. Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: “What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?” Assemble these revered objects in a row before you and perhaps they will reveal a law by their nature and their order: the fundamental law of your very self. Compare these objects, see how they complement, enlarge, outdo, transfigure one another; how they form a ladder on whose steps you have been climbing up to yourself so far; for your true self does not lie buried deep within you, but rather rises immeasurably high above you, or at least above what you commonly take to be your I.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
Road trips, BBC Radio, warm showers, swimming pools, airports, libraries, stargazing, the movie Contact, The Matrix, metaphors, the anime Heidi, Shanti opening theme, salted caramel creme, masala chai, University Challenge opening theme, the night sky, photos of earth from space, Jurgen Klopp, Cate Blanchett, this and this ted talk, this essay on Roger Federer by David Foster Wallace, the music of Bach, Wodehouse, Raghuram Rajan, Chandigarh, Titanic, The Adventures of Tintin, Liverpool’s Champions League comebacks, Wimbledon, Nadal vs Federer Wimbledon Finals, Andy Murray, IIT Delhi and this tribute video of it, Mathematics, Nietzsche’s writing, this scene from Before Sunrise, Dragon Ball Z, Sabine Devieilhe’s singing, Lakshya, Barbican Hall, British Library, Indian Habitat Centre in Delhi, the street where I grew up, my really good teachers, Cardamom, Amia Srinivasan, you - the person reading this with inexplicable care and attention, The Green Cafe Nero chain in Warsaw, Cafe Chill in Cambridge, the first Harry Potter movie, light rain, Christmas season in London, Wes Anderson movies but not the latest ones, Studio Ghibli movies, Where the hell is Matt?, Halt and Catch Fire.