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Whatcha Bingin’?

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If you do not know at least 5 of these references or characters, there’s a high chance you live under a rock. Millennials, if nothing, have one thing in common -- binging . As the definition goes, binging is to heavily indulge in a particular activity; this may be eating, shopping, watching OTT content, and so on. This term has heavy usage when watching online content, and more so with the Quarantine year that’s passing us by. Being real for a moment though, it’s sure helping some of us be sane in these tough times. Normal life demands moderation, but most millennials binge! Okay, let's not go overboard, not everybody binges, but everyone in some phase of their lives has found themselves in front of the leash of their choice -- TV, laptop, phone -- to fall into the trap of their loss of time, life, existence. Most of us know life from one show to another, and at the end of each show, one begs to question what life was before this. We have it really easy in 2020, be...

Carpe Diem, because YOLO!

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This is the first piece I’ve ever written and there are just too many meandering thoughts in my head to pick one. Then I thought, what’s better than writing about than how unpredictable and chaotic our millennial life is. Life never fails to surprise you and it has its own special ways; none that we frail humans can decode the algorithm for anyway. Little do you know when you step out of college that there’s a gruesome, unforgiving world waiting for you outside. Like Monica tells Rachel in F.R.I.E.N.D.S, “Welcome to the real world. It sucks. You’re gonna love it!” I went through my life pretty much the same way Rachel did, barring the “leaving the guy at the altar” or her being the fashion diva she is! Carefree and careless to say the least. Like most of us are, I was the protected child who had no worries in life other than studying and getting good grades while growing up. The thing that they tell you about our worries seemingly becoming laughable in the future is legit. Now...