MindVerse: nurturing souls through words

I recently turned 45... And birthdays have this annoying habit of making you think about your life a little more than usual. You start doing this completely unnecessary mental audit. Where am I? What have I done? What’s next? Am I where I thought I would be? And wait… wasn’t I supposed to have figured all this out by now? 😂 Because somewhere in my younger brain, I think I had assumed that people in their 40s were proper adults. Well, they knew things! They made sensible decisions. They understood finances. They knew what they wanted from life. They probably even opened instruction manuals before trying to assemble things. And now I’m here. Forty-five. Still making plans. Still changing them. Still getting excited about new ideas. Still occasionally wondering what on earth I’m doing. Surely all this adulting should count for something, right? The funny part is that I have actually done quite a lot of very grown-up things I have lived in three countries. I left India when I was young to...

  Me overthinking, probably. Or… could this actually be our truth someday? Recently, I came across an AI-generated reel on social media. It showed a young woman leaving Earth to go and live on Mars. Permanently. In the reel, she knew she would never return. What stayed with me, though, was something she said about the children who would eventually be born there. Mars would be their normal. They would never know what it felt like to live on Earth. Of course, the whole thing was fictional. AI-generated. Someone's imagination turned into a reel. But it made me strangely fearful. Imagine being born into a world where you had never felt rain. Never walked barefoot on grass. Never stood under a tree. Never seen an ocean except in old photographs and videos. Earth would be something your parents told you stories about. And perhaps it affected me because I have always been fascinated by the universe. As a child, I had an animated movie called Galaxy Express 999 , where the protagonist trav...