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Rick and Morty is arguably the best animated show on air. It has three seasons and is already loved across the world. In fact, it has a Monopoly game made after it. It portrays the various adventures of the smartest man on earth, Rick, and his not so smart grandson Morty. Every episode is different and the duo cross galaxies and planets to do different things. The show uses the concept of infinite alternate universes. so, in a few episodes Ricks from other parallel universes meet and confront the main character- Rick C-137 - and often arrest him. the show relates a lot of its episodes to current events and entertainment. For example, one episode is based on The Purge (2013), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). the rapper LOGIC features in one episode. The latest episode, season 3 episode 3, is probably the best featuring rick turning himself into a pickle and surviving for a day while taking down a bank.    

mad max 

the purge

PICKLE RICK

SO WHAT MAKES THE SHOW FAMOUS?

The show implores hilarity in rick's adventures and innovation from the producer's -justin Roiland- mind. But for me, the best part about the show is the philosophy it gives to the viewers through quotes and inner meanings. 

Rick is the smartest person in the universe and not all of his quotes are funny or scientific. Rick's wife died very early when his daughter Beth was born, delving him into science. over the years his view on life has changed many times and e has often tried to commit suicide. He tells Morty, who wants to fall in love, that love is a chemical reaction which compels animals to breed. It hits hard and fades away leading one to be in a loveless marriage, much like Morty's parents'. 

Rick also talks about not caring for others' opinions and tells morty to take his opinion and shove it waaaaaay up his butthole. 

Not caring about others' opinions is the most important thing to do if you're about to do something new or different. Half the enthusiasm and motivation is lost when you pay heed to criticism. Several great thinkers and inventors were heavily criticised for their actions and creations but they never took heed and believed in themselves and went on to make a mark in history.

Rick also talks about mental growth and tells Morty on an alien island, that even though he is afraid and in a new place and the situations are intimidating and scary, charging them head on like a bull and meeting them face to face is how we grow as people. this is my favourite quote in the show. This shows us that we should love and cherish new situations, hardships and experience and not run away form them. We should boldly face them and brave them for that is how we grow as people.

Rick and Morty is a one-of-the kind tv show that is a must watch. it is, in my opinion, better than all other animated shows including The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Futurama, and Archer, amongst others. its funny, smart and different. 

imdb- 9.3/10

Hulu- 4.8/5

rotten tomatoes- 100%

leave bad habits behind

Leaving bad habits behind

 We all have bad habits and we all wish that we can quit them. But if we keep thinking 'I wish' and not 'I will', we can never break the bat. here are a few ways to reduce, if not stop bad habits:

1) Identify your problem:

If you're an alcoholic, accept it. If you're a drug addict, accept it proudly and say that you plan on ending this addiction to drugs or alcohol or any other vice. Tell your friends about your decision and your plan. 

DO NOT try to rationalise your problem by saying that you're just going to drink one glassier check your phone 10 times. 

2) Take active steps and incentives

Teach your garden how to weed it self. I've written a previous blog about it and for more depth, check It out.
incentives play with your mind and reward you for completing certain tasks. 
For example, if you're a smoker, set an incentive that if you don't smoke for a whole week, you will get an extra cigarette on the last day of the week.


The main problem with incentives, however, is the people are not alway honest to themselves and the incentives. 
To solve this, tell somebody to conduct the incentive plan.

3) Interventions, interventions and more interventions:

If you know anybody close to you who has a problem like alcoholism or drug addiction, stage an intervention.
Talk about how you feel about it and get a bunch of people close to the person whose to be spoken to and ask them also to say things about the problem.
Find the root problem of the addiction, be it peer pressure or pleasure and try solving it by calm talking and reassurance.
This is by far the most helpful thing to do for somebody who has a bad addiction.

Summing up

1) Accept your addictions and vices and get prepared to leave it
2) Get a hold of friends who are willing to help you
3) Set up incentives to make your plan work
4) Hold interventions for friends who are influenced by vices.

Work hard to play hard

Have you ever thought, "I'll do it tomorrow", and you never found time to do it because some activity always came up? I've been there several times and I'm tired of not completing my tasks and jobs. In fact, sometimes, blogging also becomes a chore when I don't have any idea in mind. 

After much thinking, I decided to compile a list to make stuff better for myself and you, the reader-

1) Stop procrastinating 

Procrastinating is the act of delaying important activities for a later time. It mostly never gets completed.
People often tell me to make schedules or timetables to solve my problem of excessive gaming but I never seem to be able to comply to the table. There is no consequence for failure to do a task. My class, during value education class, discussed ways to prevent procrastination and we concluded that that we can prevent it by:
a) Downloading app locks which completely block opening apps on mobile phones for a while 
b) Tell parents to make consequences for failure in doing tasks or chores 
c) Do the worst task in the morning, forcibly if possible so you're free for the rest of the day
d) Crave finishing work to be free so that time does not seem to go by so 'slowly'

2) Set incentives
I've previously written a blog on setting incentives
Example: If you finished a chapter of economics today, you get to play video games for 2 hours or go out for dinner. if not, then suffer the consequences (1.b) 

3) Get proper sleep

This is, as funny as it may be, a real problem! I cannot study half the time because I sleep at 12:30 am and wake up at 6:30 am for school. My best suggestion is to come home and sleep for an hour or if you can, sleep during English literature or another boring subject.

4) Be enthusiastic 

Ryan thinks studying is fun. Ryan is cool

Make studying fun. Use highlighters of all colours, make jokes out of the things you study and make acronyms or sing the words of the definition of 'national wealth'. This is really helpful and also helps you sing better in front of the public.

summing up 

a) Procrastinating sucks so always finish your work first then do your time pass and even if you don't get time to play, Always remember that you'll be the only one who finished homework.

"A stitch in time saves nine"

b) Make your garden weed itself by setting incentives for you to work at and consequences for failure.

c) Sleep well because if you can't be awake, the day is as good as wasted

"Sleep tight and don't let the bedbugs bite"

d) Enjoy studying. It is not as bad as it seems and the more you do it, the better you become. Studying harder a lot does not make you uncool or a nerd but it makes you rich.

Old vs new

As a 2010's kid, I can say that my decade is much better than the 2000s. We have the newest iPhones, newer Playstations, super fast computers, the internet of things, and a lot more technology. We also have better medical care, scientific advancements and a lot of activities to do if we are bored. But this is my perspective. If an adult is asked, he will surely say that the 2000s were better. So let us  compare a few offbeat points to show the real winner-

Socialising:
In the 2000s, there was not really a whole bunch of ways to socialise or go out with friends and family. There was no Snapchat or Instagram to get by. People would normally have to call others and remembering their numbers was a pain. Facebook was not so much a big thing back then as a it is today (even though it is slowly dying out) and transportation was not as advanced as today. There were fewer restaurants, clubs and social gatherings. Shopping centres were less in comparison to today.

Fitness:
Today there is a serious lack in fitness as compared to a decade ago. At least among teens. Mobile phones have ruined teenagers' postures and nobody goes to out to meet friends. A decade ago, instead of messaging friends, people would actually go out and meet them. Nowadays, you can do it at home via Skype, WhatsApp and other social media sites. This causes lethargy and a lot of children and teenagers are getting fatter.

Food;
We can all say that today's food is much better than the food a decade ago. However, there is a lot of junk food in markets causing various horrible ailments such as diabetes, obesity, heart failure, etc. A decade ago, Lays, Doritos, Gatorade, Maggi, cup noodles, and packet fried foods were barely, if not present at all. Today, every store has a stock of such foods and they cause the maximum of child problems.

Technology:
Hands down today's technology is better than a decade ago. Come on, the best game of the 2000s was Mario and today you have Overwatch, the Witcher 3, Dark Souls and The Last of Us. the best phone of 2000s was arguably early model of the iPhone. Today you have phones with 24 megapixels back cameras and phones which tell you the price and kind of shoes just by pointing a camera at it.

Television:
In the 2000s, we had memorable shows like Friends, Two and a Half Men and a few more but in the 2010s, there are shows like Game of Thrones, the Big Bang Theory, Suits, etc (although some started in the late 2000s, they became really famous in the 2010s). You also have curved OLED and UHD television today compared to those boxes in the 2000s.

Fashion:
Needless to say, 2000s fashion was better. Today you have celebrities wearing clothes made of beef and steak. You have lady gaga wearing God knows what on every single occasion and 21 Pilots accepting a Grammy in underpants.

There are a lot more points which can be discussed but these are the most standing out points which are not too deep unlike finance, population and poverty which normally would swoosh past one's head. You cannot go back in time so you might as well enjoy today and hope your tomorrow has a real overboard unlike today's crap.

We stray away from God everyday

Coldplay came to Mumbai on 19 November 2016 and a man filed a complaint against Chris Martin because he mistakenly put the flag in his back pocket while singing a song.

The world is a crazy place and people are crazy. People jump to weird conclusions after a single act which normally doesn't mean anything. Here, the man blamed Chris to insult India by putting the flag in his back pocket.

People believe anything and go ahead with it. Just recently, a huge commotion arose when a bunch of women stood up and started protesting that the Wonder Woman movie's screening should only be accessible to women because Wonder Woman is a female superhero. Where is the logic in that? Does that mean that only men can go for the screening of male superhero movies? Feminism has truly gone a stretch too far. Women rise up for anything and protest. Even on the stupidest thing as a superhero movie. 

A man sued red bull for not giving him wings when he drank a can. What could he possibly expect? and which women would actually like wings on a man? Axe deodorant was also sued because when a man wore it, angels did not fall. 

Another woman sued McDonalds because her cup lid broke while she was holding it in her lap and filling sugar. 

People try to make money off literally anything. Any weird case presents to them is an incentive to make money.

A woman sued a man who helped her from a fire but held her arm. She considered that as sexual harassment. 

A burglar broke into a home and got an electric shock from an appliance and sued the homeowners.

This is the kind of things that make you question humanity. You also begin to question the newspapers which publish such news. Just a few months ago, a newspaper company posted an article when a man was caught by the police from a chase because he stopped to pet a few cats. 

How will this affect you? And what was going on in the man's had when he stopped to pet cats?

Charles Bukowski said, "People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water." 

This must be soooo profound. Isn't it the same profoundness that a person will eat when they are hungry but duck when you throw an apple at their face? 

This is the kind of things one should keep away from. Keep this kind of nonsense out of your life because there is no way this will affect your life. 

There are also people who say that if you support gay rights, you must be gay. A friend of mine once told me that. I replied," I support animal rights. DO I LOOK LIKE AN ALPACA TO YOU?"

Please stay away from such minded people. They are bound to lower your IQ.
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previous blog-
http://bagriaanjaneya.blogspot.in/2017/07/the-times-of-nonsense.html

The Times Of Nonsense

Let me put it out there- I don't read or see any kind of news be it newspapers, journals, magazines, news channels or social media. Why should I? News today has almost no value. Coming on the news is fairly easy. All you need it a story- any story and on literally anything- and a wad of green paper. Pay a journalist and the next day or face could be next to Donald Trumps' Paris accord pull out. Newspapers don't have much value anymore. They post whatever pleases the readers and we cannot blame them either. They are a business and profit is the main motive of a business. So if Deepika Padukone's new gym attire interests people, you can expect shah rukh khan's and salman khan's outfit next. There is rampant competition amongst the newspaper giants and the quality of journalism is decreasing. Paparazzi is slowly taking over and real content is being obscured. Nobody cares about Tyga being spotted at an airport or Justin Bieber falling of a stage during a performance but journalists will speak of that more extensively than people dying in disaster struck areas.
Suppose your an Australian farmer. Will the floods in Bangladesh or the record sales of iPhones affect your life? No. But you will yet waste time to read it. There is a lot of useless information on the news everyday and 99.9% of it has no value to you. So why read it? You should rather spend time working or sleeping or even playing video games. A landslide in Lebanon won't affect a Chinese restaurant owner unless his party destination is Lebanon. People might say that you need to have a knowledge about the world but honestly it does not matter if there is turmoil in Tata Sons or the Campa Cola compound is getting destroyed. It may be a pressing concern but unless it affects my life in any ways, personally I don't go into depth of it. This may seems like a horrible habit but sadly, it's the truth. Do something worthwhile instead of wasting precious time reading nonsense especially entertainment news.
So go ahead. Delete flipboard, NDTV or BBC news network. It really does not have too much effect on your life.

A Modern Day Twain Story

Once upon a time, a beautiful angel visited a youth's room whilst he was asleep and woke him up. Groggily, the youth woke up. The angel introduced herself as a being who had appeared to grant him a wish for his life was abhorrent with poverty and no friends. The angel told the youth that she would offer him five choices and out of them the boy would choose one and that would come true. The angel offered the youth: love, wealth, fame, wisdom and death. Almost instinctively, the youth chose love. Soon, he met a girl and fell deeply in love with her and so did she. They were married within a year and lived a very happy but modest life. However, one unfortunate day, the lovely lady was caught in a car accident and died. The youth wept and wept. Finally he wept no more but inside, was very numb. The beautiful angel appeared before the youth and told him that love is just a feeling. She told him that love is not something which goes beyond the grave and that love is just temporary. She assured the youth that with time, his wounds would surely heal and decided to offer him another wish for the youth was in a depression as deep as tartarus. The boy chose fame. Soon, the boy began to be known by many in his neighbourhood and in a week, the whole city knew him. Within a year, he was the most famous person in his country with over 50 million followers on all social media. Wherever he went, he was engulfed with fans and admirers. Paparazzi flowed in and out of his house and his face appeared on every magazine's cover. He met with famous people almost everyday. But the youth still felt very empty for he had not accomplished anything in life and realised that his life's leading to a very sorry future. He could not bare the fame for it was too much pressure and longed to go back to being a normal person. In a few years, the angel appeared in front of him and he begged for a new wish and the angel smiled and offered him the other three. The boy chose wealth and almost instantly, his bank account was worth more than any other person in the whole world. The boy retired in comfort and took up have gambling, alcoholism and abused all the drugs known to man. Within 30 years, he was reduced to a middle class person and longed to have forgotten his rich past to which he couldn't ever return. What first world problems were these! He longed for the angel to return and when she did, he begged her for wisdom for he was a very foolish person. The senior was now engulfed in books and within a decade, he was the wisest person to ever exist. he knew the secrets of life and the reason for the very existence of man. he knew everything about the world. Years passed by and the man was now ensured that all of his wisdom was of very little use for him. He knew that he had made many mistakes in his life but the worst was to have met the angel. He regretted everything the angel had granted him. Suddenly, the angel appeared and told him that it took him 70 years to realise that the one thing in life that was inevitable was death. Dust we are and dust is what we return to. Love, wealth, fame and wisdom may seem like a rosy life but in the end we will all be washed away by the same hand that washes away beggars. We will be subject to the same judgement as political and war criminals. We will be judged the same as Adolf hitler and by the same person who judged him- God. Being rich or famous has no worth and wisdom just opens the curtains to truth. Love is a very pointless feeling for the person you love, in this generation, will most probably leave you for someone better or richer. Hearing this, the old man felt ill and dropped to his knees and begged the angel for the last and final wish: death.