Writing Prompt: What topics do you like to discuss ?

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So, today’s prompt asks, what topics do I like to discuss. Well, that depends on various factors. Firstly, with whom I am discussing? Different persons have different inclinations towards different subject matters. Although, I am not a genius who can discuss anything and everything with anyone and everyone, still I’ll do my best to keep the discussion interesting. I always do. And that’s why I must know what the other person is interested in.

Also, I have reservations about few subject matters, i.e. about politics, and gossiping about other peoples. Apart from these two, I would like to discuss pretty much anything and everything. Even in topics that I don’t know much about, I’ll just prefer to listen to the other person; of-course, that won’t qualify as a “discussion” per say, but I hope that’s okay. 🙂

Prompt :: When is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out?

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So, today’s writing prompt asks, when is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out? Well, the dictionary meaning of risk is, “A situation involving exposure to danger”. And the danger can be of any kind. It may be a physical or non-physical harm of loss of any kind.

So far as I remember, my recent incidence of risk will be investing some good amount of money into share market during COVID pandemic. Because market was crashing like anything during those days and it seemed like an opportunity. But I wasn’t aware of when to invest. Normally, the profit will be maximum if you can invest when the market is at the rock bottom and monetize when the market it at its peak. But its a tricky business to know when the market has reached the rock bottom. So, I invested in a hunch and that was a risk. Of-course, I made some money but not as much. I invested immediately when the market started falling and my investment was also losing value every single day with the bearish market. Till the time the market reached rock bottom, my portfolio value was less than half of what I invested. Then slowly, the market started bouncing back. The bull run continued for more than two years till last year, and of-course it has surpassed the point where I invested letting me make some profit. But its not a spellbound profit. Potential for making spellbound profit was there but I took a risk of investing without knowing when to invest.

Nevertheless, it was a learning lesson for me.

Are You Superstitious?

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The daily writing prompt asks, am I superstitious? Well, I am not.

But, what is superstition anyway? The dictionary meaning of superstition is –

“a widely held but irrational belief in supernatural influences, especially as leading to good or bad luck, or a practice based on such a belief.”

So, to be superstitious, we must believe in supernatural influences. I don’t believe in supernatural influences in any way. But, I do believe in luck and chance. I do believe in coincidences. Also, I do believe in God. I guess, believing in God and luck and coincidences are not irrational and hence cannot be termed as superstitious.

There exists a very fine line between superstition and a healthy belief in things that are beyond scientific explanation. Science has never been able to explain the presence of “God” or the absence of it. So, we must accept the fact that there are things in life that cannot be explained by science and yet, it’s okay to believe in such things. It’s just that we have to be rational and logical in our beliefs too. Only then such beliefs cannot be termed as “Superstition”.