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Dare to Live or Settle to Exist?

5 min readApr 18, 2025

Dr.Vijayalakshmi Aluri, Winner of World Bank’s Projects competition, Author, Health Educator, Social worker and Gynecologist, Sri Sri Holistic Multi specialty Hospitals, Hyderabad.

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“Who is the happier man — he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
— Hunter S. Thompson

There comes a time in life when you pause and ask yourself, “Is this really living… or am I just going through the motions?”

This blog isn’t just about that question. It’s about one man who dared to answer it — and what we all can learn from his story.

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The Man Who Had It All — On Paper

Meet Narendra. A 42-year-old bank manager. Disciplined. Dependable. Well-paid. He lived in a tidy apartment, paid his taxes, followed his routine. Breakfast at 8. Commute at 9. Excel sheets and meetings till 6. Dinner by 8. TV by 9.

Solid life. On the outside.

But inside? Silence. A quiet, gnawing restlessness.

Every day, Narendra sat in front of his laptop and wondered, Is this it?

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Dr Vijayalakshmi Aluri
Dr Vijayalakshmi Aluri

Written by Dr Vijayalakshmi Aluri

An Ob./Gy Specialist by profession and an author of novels, Short stories, Health Education books and a translator of World famous Health Education books

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