Book 5: Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Man’s Search for Meaning is the easiest book to read among all the five books on this list. I am grateful to have read it last after all the deep and complex books before, which required a sharp mind for interpretation. The other four books have pearls of wisdom but they are hidden in between…

Book 4: Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

Reading ‘Beyond Good and Evil’ is an insane achievement. This book took me about 3 months to finish reading. When I started the book, I saw that it was a 240 page book and assumed that I would be able to complete it in a week. Instead it took me 3 months at an average…

Book 3: Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime and Punishment is a powerful psychological drama written in the pre-modern era. It is a long book of over 500 pages and is a challenging read. The language is slightly challenging, and the progression of the story is slow. Since the story is slow and meandering it is able to completely flesh out each…

Soul Storms

This poem is an entry for Penable's Thursday Poetry Competition. Within the soul,Clouds of contradiction,of competing ideas,and conflicting values A storm brightened by lightning,Fissures from the earth shaking,of stereotypes colliding with empathy,and tradition with new values The storm that brews within,creates a being of contradiction,Who sides with reason,According to their inner wind direction The thoughts…

This Plastic World

A world divided into good and bad,A quest to awake outrage,In the face of barbarity,And expose the guilty. To an audience that transcends boundaries,A pious and just society,That bathes in it's self righteousness,To wash away the sins of all of history It takes pride in it's magnifying glass,That can discern tyranny in any crevice,So that…

Beyond the Pinnacle

When I heard the news, I said,An actor's life is complicated,and you may ask, why,They have the world on their fingertips Perhaps that is why,They have fame and money,dazzling everybody, everywhere,with their persona and charm A world at their fingertipsWhat is there to strive for,What profound impact can they aim for,When they are creating impact…

The Beauty in Tragedy

Vibrant colours on a canvas,The untouched spectacle of nature,Sceneries of rain and coming storm,Is that the benchmark of beauty? A man on one knee, proposing,A job offer after an year of searching,A soldier coming home after a lifetime of service,Such mundane scenesWhat makes them beautiful? A candle piercing the darkness,The light at the end of…