Bijal Patel

Try adult coloring. It has plenty of health benefits, such as reduced stress and anxiety. It also trains your brain to focus, and helps you with your fine motor skills and vision.

“I have embarrassingly been matched up with a distant cousin of mine. I of course panicked and deleted the app and all evidence that it ever happened but I’m sure it’s floating around in cyber space somewhere.””

I encourage all women to experience the beauty of traveling alone at least once in their lifetime, if only to discover what you are capable of.

It allows you to reconnect with your own thoughts, dreams, desires, and insecurities. And it challenges you to enjoy the solidarity that life has to offer.

Putting your phone down. Go out into the world and just live it. You must understand that your happiness will not be found in reading about the updates of other people’s lives.

“Are you going to get an arranged marriage?”

Choose to share. Share your thoughts with others. Bring people together. Introduce your old friends to your new friends.

If you woke up at 8:10 a.m., and you were supposed to move your car by 8, chances were you’d go back to sleep because there’s a high chance you had already gotten a ticket.

As I was growing up, I realized many people are not aware of our culture and traditions, that I always enjoyed educating others as to why I do things a certain way.

Bollywood used to only recognize the idea of love as giving up one’s self-esteem or even life for the sake of love, but those stories have considerably evolved with time.

Being on a dating website is just another avenue of meeting new people — really. It’s. O. Kay.

Clear your schedule, it’s a 3-day celebration!

If you put your time and effort into something you want to achieve, anything is possible.

It’s better to be with someone you fully connect with, rather than settling for someone because you felt like you reached a certain age.

Make this the year where you actually make time and build memories with your loved ones, because you truly do not know if they will be in this world tomorrow.

Your parents were superstitious.

Talk to random people in social settings. This will make you a more well- rounded person, and chances are good you’ll make a new friend, too.