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Einstein's relativity and thinking in the shower.

I have been trying to break my head to understand Einstein's theory of relativity purely through imagination and not mathematics or science. I know that sounds crazy and stupid, but trying to imagine yourself traveling in a rocket at the speed of light because of which time slows down for you is a fun thought experiment while in the shower. I'm sorry if this sounds like a wrong thought experiment for Einstein's theory, but at least I'm trying. I am nowhere close to cracking the theory or understanding it. I do a lot of thinking in the shower. Although, I don't quite get it yet, these thought experiments lead to other AHA moments for me which might be completely illogical or logical or truthful or wrong. I'm not quite sure if these thoughts are scientific. They're just things I think. So here's a little peek into one of those moments: AHA moment #1: Truth can be relative. On this planet that we live, there is no right or wrong answer. Let's say I ...

Beaming goodbyes.

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Have you ever looked at a goodbye like an experience that gives you a strange unknown feeling of freedom under your feet? That time, when all you know is what you're going to do the next second and nothing after that. I thought, when a cloud of extreme freedom hit my soul, I would be directionless, panic stricken, hassled and troubled, because I would be out of my comfort zone. I haven't really rested or taken a significant break. But I surprised myself. When the morning of my goodbye arrived, I felt nothing. Not that I want to sound like a cold heartless soul, but I didn't. Why? Because I didn't have an ounce of doubt, that the people I was saying goodbye to will always stay with me: in the form of ideals that they have given to me. They never really go away. They never do. So what's there to feel sad about? Choose to understand that the situations around you will keep changing, whether you like it or not. All you can do, is swirl around those situa...