Be Perfectly Imperfect
Vyoma Nupur
Author Bio
Vyoma Nupur is a former journalist, who now works for corporate entities in the U.S. in the roles of marketing, business development, and vendor relations.
Since childhood, she has been a keen reader who believes that books are the true treasures of this world. Her childhood was spent delving into the fantastic make believe worlds of Enid Blyton stories among many others, that also generated a deep love for writing her own tales. Growing up she contributed poetry regularly and got published in children oriented magazines.
During her teenage years in India, she was attracted to the profession of journalism that combined her love for writing with socio-political reporting. While pursuing her Bachelors Honors in History and later her Masters degree in International Relations, Vyoma also joined post graduate studies in Journalism from a renowned institute run by the Times of India group, a national newspaper in India. Thereafter she wrote editorial content for Indian newspapers like the Pioneer on issues such as the plight of women prisoners based on her first hand conversations with these women, interview with a controversial politician as well as writing copy for the Indian subsidiary of Dow Jones newswires.
Her Master’s thesis dealt with the persistent issue of the utilization of child labor in south-east Asia. Vyoma completed an additional Masters (MBA) degree in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in the United States. Growing up on a rich diet of Indian mythology and divinity tales coupled with travels to Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and various countries in Asia, Europe and within the US – being exposed to their grand history, culture and the uniqueness of people, has forever inspired Vyoma to express herself more and more via the written word through her short stories and articles.
Description
“Be Perfectly Imperfect” is a collection of 41 two-minute reads designed to communicate a short and pertinent message of inspiration to the reader, without becoming too long-winded. Though the topics of the short essays are varied, they all gel into a common theme of how to live a better and joyful life – with love, laughter and chasing your dreams to fruition. They encourage self-discovery and contentment, displaying the author’s personal views and experiences and attempt to inculcate an appreciation of the lighter side of life. Essays include “ Be Perfectly Imperfect”, “You Become What You Think”, “ The Art of Letting Go”, that encourage us to monitor our thoughts more, learn how to let go of the negativity we collect and become more spontaneous in our life, releasing any judgmental attitudes we may hold toward others.
Essays such as “Labels Are For Milk Bottles, Not People” elucidate the value of accepting people, as they are – multidimensional beings of different shades – and not trying to package them in neatly labeled simplistic personality models.
Life is about being fearless and living each day more consciously. Life is about looking inward into our hearts and finding peace there. “Life is Breaching the Fearsome Walls of What-Ifs” and “Life Is A Symphony of Silence” are opening oneself to the inner possibilities of fearlessness and moving beyond the outer and inner chatter to a state of profound peace and silence.
How to be much happier in our daily lives, making it richer by embracing the small jewels of priceless moments that happen and laughing open heartedly – are the central themes of “The Recipe For Happiness Is Not Gourmet”, “Laughing With Life” and “Little Things Matter The Most”.
“Why Am I Here, Again” and “ Am I Good Enough?” are about reflective self-understanding.
Whatever I feel has flown from my heart onto these pages, spontaneously in a sometimes serious, sometimes quirky way – culminating into these short writings.
This book has a voice that is conversational and blog-like. It invites the reader to participate back with their views. It draws examples from their daily life. The examples and feelings can be related to, by everyone, whichever cultural orientation or nationality they may belong to. There are dashes of whimsical reflection; poetic hope, introspective musing, humor and a serious vein all together varying from essay to essay.
Book excerpt
Life Is A Symphony of Silence
The hustle and bustle we surround ourselves with, are illusionary attempts to draw our attention away from the depth of life. Everything of importance is in essence, a silent melody — only experienced, not heard. Growth is silent. Seeds planted push out of the earth as silent shoots, growing into magnificent, leafy canopies. Flowers open stealthily. Evolution is silent. Deeper the lake, the more quiet it is. Ripples of tranquility anoint a watery carpet moving silently in the night. Similar to oceanic depths. A meditative mind is a calm and serene oasis.
The best ideas tiptoe to the forefront in times of silence, when the receding tide of turbulent thoughts allow them to materialize into coherence. In this world of relentless noise, silence is a precious commodity, seldom found. All conflicts and struggles of humankind that result from over-communication and ego-fueled arguments may be resolved to a large extent by harnessing the power of the unsaid. If people adopt silence, conversations that they might come to regret life-long may not happen at all. And since the balm of quiet calms the mind, it would allow actions to be taken with deliberation instead of in the heat of the moment, driven only by untrammeled emotion. Though considered unnatural in our daily lives, silence is a state of equilibrium that should be adopted more so that the overheated, combative whine of busy minds can be replaced with cool contemplation.
Silence sings its own distinct song,
evident in the undercurrents of Life, in the subtle movement of planets, in the thrum of the universe. Our own Earth revolves to this symphony. But the unfathomable depth of the music of silence is only apparent to the quiet intellect— an unmoving abyss undisturbed and free of thought. Only such a mind can comprehend the sounds of silence that reverberate in the universal void and in all its creations, from the tiniest pebble to the largest star system. Life itself is a vast and silent movie reel playing in slow motion, frame by frame, recording the story of humanity over millennia, for future civilizations. People will come and go, things will continue to change and evolve, like bold brush strokes on the masterpiece of life, but the silence that runs through the Cosmos, will remain eternal, a golden thread weaving through time and space.
—–Vyoma Nupur
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