Is It Good to Be a Stranger at Times?

Siranjeevi Mahendran
2 min readMar 12, 2021

An easy way to assess and evaluate yourself and your decisions

While Mother Earth is consciously spinning herself around Sun, her children are running so busy towards an unknown destin(y)ation.

The irony of being a part of humanity is evolving, improving, and admitting that you and your class are yet to be improved. Every life is marching towards a target while few are considered achievements, and others are portrayed as attempts.

In this fast-moving environment, I observed quite late that Sometimes you need to stop being yourself too much and be distant from it for a while. Being your own spectator gives a perspective that helps you visualize the purpose and essential need of it.

At times, It may help one’s attempt to become an achievement.

I always believe a satisfied life is happier than a successful life. While success has so many definitions in modern terminology, Most of them are not attributed to self factors.

Isn’t it quite clear and visible when you distant yourself?

Sometimes you need to be the third umpire for yourself to check where you stand and when you went out of the crease. This potentially helps to understand what’s really needed to chase the target.

Whenever you find a decisive action needed, Apart from typically analyzing all the outcomes and setbacks, try to distance yourself away and think from an outsider's perspective. Believe me, whether it gives an optimized result or not, it provides you clarity on whether this attempt is necessary.

Be a stranger, B(u)y a stranger

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Siranjeevi Mahendran

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