The Other Side of Life

What's the point of having a blog if you cannot do a meaningless year-end post? So here goes for no one, my wrap-up of the year, as per my blog's tradition. Easily the worst year I have seen? Yep. The longest I have ever stayed away from home or not seen my parents? Yes. If I got a chance to go home, would I run? Yes. And I know that doesn't even cut the long list of troubles I have seen others go through. But, somewhere between songs called F*** 2020 and memes canceling 2020, somewhere, this year also became a year where I grew up a lot. I had more time, I had more patience, I wanted to learn more, I wanted to try more things. And just like that, 2020 became the year I did a lot! I started a podcast with a friend, which taught me more about content creation than anything else. The whole process of researching, recording, editing, marketing gave me so much to think about. Shameless plug, if you like hearing about psychology, do give it a listen here:  https://theworkbrain.b...

With zero experience whatsoever in judging TV shows, but immense experience in watching, I decided to do a review. Mostly because I learnt of a new concept and I am dying to apply it somewhere. I learnt about something called a Character Arc.  A character arc defines how the character changes and develops over a period of time. This can be found in any story - movies, books, tv shows.   I particularly like applying this concept to TV Shows because of the longevity which gives scope for an actual character arc to develop. Let's take the example of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. This is a rare example of a show where every single character had an amazing character arc. And this also probably explains why we keep watching this show again and again and again. Because we can see the circle unfold, we can see characters grow and we grow with them. Let's look at each of them. Rachel Green: Starts out as a stubborn, spoilt, dependent character. Through the seasons, she grows in every possible wa...