Tell me something really useful to change my life for the better...” — excerpt from a letter from a teenager.

I feel insecure all the time, crying silently without people noticing. You’ll never understand this I know, but please help anyway”— an anguished cry from a teenager.

Nobody and nothing plays fair. Why should I?” — excerpt from an angry letter of a 16-year-old.
Yup. Nobody and nothing plays fair. Welcome to the real world. In time, you will probably realise that life itself is pretty unfair — along with society, fate, girlfriends, our political leaders, lottery tickets, not to mention dreams,

It’s amazing how planets rule over me. Last month the forecast said Venus was enhancing my love life — so true it was! Then Saturn came and spoilt everything. I lost out just as predicted. Sometimes I do feel that it’s all my imagination...sometimes I believe my destiny is unfolding as told by them. Is it true that our destiny is all prewritten and the future can be foretold? Please tell me what to really believe.”

I am 14 years old. It’s been just two hours since I read your column, and two hours is not enough time for anyone to experiment with themselves. You said: “Emotion responds to command”. Well, I tried to command myself to feel the emotion of love. I looked at our flowerpots in the balcony, and tried to feel love towards my flowers. It worked. I

If you have been following this column, you would have realised that for weeks on end, we are on a trek, climbing this difficult mountain called “love”. This trek has taken us through an interesting scenery of relationships,

Introspection is an acquired taste, like dark chocolate or bitter gourd. It doesn’t come naturally to anyone. Our biological systems are designed to look outward, never inward. This is an inherent flaw in our mental composition — a glitch in our evolving cerebral software. A glitch, which has to be corrected with a lot of care,

Here is something you teens need to know and remember. The odds are always stacked against finding true love. As if that’s not bad enough, the odds of holding on to that love are almost impossible, at least a hundred to one.
It looks as if nature is conspiring against you, preventing you from finding that bliss which technically seems to be

When viewed from a cool, unemotional distance, teenage love is basically a bundle of jumpy nerves groping another bundle of jumpy nerves. Since the human nervous system operates on the principle of electricity, whenever two such bundles meet, there are bound to be sparks, short circuits, sudden flares, and on occasion, even a total

If you are flowing with this column, you’ll know we are currently crossing over the topic called Love — how to figure when you’ve found the “One”, how to know if the love is genuine and things like that. It’s very deceptive, this emotion called love. On the surface, it seems so simple and sweet, but in truth it’s pretty complex, and involves parts