Meru Sharma

  • Structural addiction – notes for a better article

    My current working thesis: we must imagine the collective 8 billions human as a corpus (Corpus) with its own conscious, subconscious, ego, shadow mind with its own psychological drives (eg Eros/Thanatos) and emotion. Background: Desire is the history of humanity. On a micro scale, humans pursue this desire through effort. But the human desire has…

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  • My pain is universal pain; universal pain is my pain

    I have always been amazed by people’s ability to act and emphathise with global issues like climate change or war. When I see people like Greta Thunberg or even more intellectual activists like Noam Chomsky, I always wonder how people can apply their energy and effort to the external global world when there is so…

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  • A ‘deal sheet’ of achievements

    In law and finance, there is this concept of creating a ‘deal sheet’ which lists out all the deals you have worked on in your career and your contributions in the deal. You can use the deal sheet in your resume and in job interviews to then explain your skills and experience to someone else…

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  • Giving myself permission to be bored

    The prevailing modern view seems to be that the modern life is inherently boring. That is why there is so much presence of ideas like “do it for the plot” or “you are only young once” – ideas that call on us to act in interesting ways because it is assumed that fear or lack…

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  • Creating artificial problems for myself

    There is a part of me that loves ordering things and finds a lot of satisfaction in routine and doing the ‘right thing’ (perhaps because of the significant Virgo placements in my chart). This applies to physical things in my life like order in my surroundings and my daily schedule, but also on an emotional…

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  • Discipline eats motivation for breakfast

    I was always someone who was guided by my emotions and instinct in relation to action. I thought that my emotions had produced so many good things in my life that I must reward these emotions by holding them as the higher barometer of my action. My emotions and feeling were the way I would…

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