Wednesday 26 April 2017

Beau Monde

'Cause we all get lost sometimes, you know?
It's how we learn and how we grow.
-Cold Water, By Major Lazer Ft. Justin Bieber & MØ

If you think about it, our world is an alluring place with unique mechanisms for achieving every objective. For example, humans require oxygen to survive and the residue is carbon dioxide. Plants require carbon dioxide to survive and give out oxygen. It works out quite well for everyone, doesn't it? Miss Peppermint feels that's it's too convenient to be a coincidence. Let me know what your theories are, in the comment section.

They say that in life, we first face an examination and then learn our lesson. Every time you fail during a practice session, you're better than you were when you started, even if it's a small percentage. This is because now you're aware of what not to do.

 An individual may face defeat multiple times but eventually, they will blossom. Even if it's not meant to be, they are never left empty-handed. There exists the runners-up award which is labelled experience. This is the natural mechanism.

Most of us live in frantic and hectic realms, where facing failure has become arduous, partly because of social pressure. Survival in this society with the runners-up trophy is fatiguing, if not impossible. Our society has managed to contravene the natural mechanism. Anything which goes against nature's laws is indubitably jeopardous.

This social pressure can be counter-productive but also be a driving agent for the aspirants who are preparing for Success. However, those who fail, have no other alternative but to toughen up and battle against society. Coming under and acting under social pressure is inevitable unless you decide to abandon the metropolitan life and start living with the Seven Dwarfs (smart decision Cinderella!). 

Thursday 20 April 2017

A Stage Where Every Man Must Play A Part

You sell out every stadium,
And the crowd goes crazy when you're done.
-Brave, Honest, Beautiful,. By Fifth Harmony

This song is remarkably empowering. It conveys a very positive message in which Fifth Harmony tells the listener that there is nothing to be afraid of. You're brave, honest and beautiful and there is nothing you can't do.

In the literal sense, the mentioned lines claim that the listener is a scintillating performer and a vivid crowd-pleaser. The listener indulges in typical stage performances like singing or acting. However, Miss Peppermint comprehends the quoted verse divergently.

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." is an eminent line from one of Shakespeare's frequently quoted passages. Miss Peppermint interprets that the world, or the universe, is just a platform and all the human beings are solely actors, struggling to gain success in a play, called Life.

Just like it is important for an actor to gain popularity and success via acting, it is vital for any other individual to be successful in all of his/her endeavours. It's not just the conventional stage artists who try to master their stage presence, it is attempted by every mortal. An actor's stage is literally a raised platform, a doctor's stage is the operation theater, a blogger's stage is the internet, so on and so forth. Every individual who steps on the biggest stage, called The Universe attempts to ensure that by the end of their lifetime, they could gain the regard of their audience and their fellow "actors".

So be Brave, be Honest, be Beautiful. Be the best version of you. Your aim is to achieve whatever you aspire for and to get the crowd to go crazy by the time you're done.

Friday 14 April 2017

Bullets

You look pretty good down here
But you ain't really good.

We never learn, we've been here before
Why are we always stuck and running from
The bullets, the bullets?
-Sign of the Times, By Harry Styles

Right off the bat, please do listen to this song if you haven't done so already (After reading this post).

Man is a social animal and to maintain any amicable relationship, a person can not reveal every emotion s/he undergoes. Left with no alternative, those emotions either blow up in an unhealthy manner or are buried within the individual, often resulting in mental and emotional misery.

Most people who bury their emotions end up being cheerless but they do somehow manage to put up a jolly appearance. As Mr.Styles mentions, they look pretty good, but they ain't really good. Channeling emotions in a constructive way is something most people fail to master even in late adulthood, resulting in the infestation of several toxic emotions within the soul. This could result in a cumulative toll on the individual's physical and mental health.

Every person, especially in today's day and age, experiences the ordeal mentioned multiple times. However, we never learn. Our emotions are the bullets and just like we can not outrun a bullet, we can not defeat our emotions. It is fruitless to even attempt to do so.

If Sheldon Cooper Ph.D., Sc.D., from The Big Bang Theory, failed to dodge his emotions, what are the chances for us common mortals?






Wednesday 12 April 2017

If It All Goes Wrong, Darling Just Hold On

Feels like you're standing on the edge
Looking at the stars
And wishing you were them.
-Just Hold On, By Louis Tomlinson & Steve Aoki

Close your eyes and picture what according to you, the writer is talking about in those 3 lines.

Miss Peppermint pictured a beautiful girl in a flowy summer dress, with her hair taken by the wind. She's standing on the end of a cliff, looking up at the stars. What is going on in this angelic young lady's head?

The celestial bodies comprising of hydrogen and helium are a part of everybody's lifetime. On the other hand, a few members of the highly complex homo-sapien species, are quite rarely spotted. Both the types of stars are almost unapproachable, and most of them are, well, hot. 

The word star was probably a result of a series of transformations from an earlier designated word for those twinkling objects in the sky. From a Peppermintal point of view, famous people are called stars probably because they have acquired and mastered the ability to lighten up a place with their mere presence. And like I said, most of them are hot

Does the pre-mentioned young girl wish to be an acclaimed celebutant or does she wish to be to like a diamond in the sky

Maybe she has encountered a major adversity and she wishes upon the stars that she could go over to the other side. To her, I would say (maybe even sing), "If it all goes wrong, darling just hold on".
If everything is hunky-dory with her personal life, maybe she does want to be a luminary. 

Else, we're just looming over a girl looking into the sky like, she has nothing better to do. (tee-hee)

Miss Peppermint asks: How did you picture the three lines? Let me know in the comments section below!