I picked Portugal for my bachelorette – it sounded way fancier than the very plebeian Thailand. Invariably, the day would dissipate from being a quest of discovering a new city, to an endless tirade of “The local market is trending online, so we will have better photo-ops!”, to “Why can’t we just laze by the pool – my pedicure hasn’t received enough justice yet!”

Everyone on LinkedIn seems to be deep in the throes of a never-ending professional orgasm. And they’re not afraid to bellow their pleasure out from a digital rooftop: Made the long list for the best beauty blog award given by a website that didn’t exist until a month ago. Got invited to speak on a panel discussing digital disruption in in 2020.

Every year, even as thinkpieces about how outlandish Halloween is in the Indian context pepper timelines, there are parties at lounges, clubs, and people’s homes on October 31. Maybe it’s time we realised that Halloween makes a great addition to our celebration calendar. Other nations besides the US have adopted the holiday, like Australia and the UK, and their culture hasn’t collapsed overnight.

In my near decade-long journey of hopping across three different industries, only few things I have observed remain constant — the constipated Monday look, the inevitability of feeling underpaid, and the pointlessness of office meetings. I’m not saying all meetings are useless, but what does it say when most of them end in the setting up of further meetings?

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