It will be Okay!

A friend of mine recently posted a video on Facebook about being unhappy and how to overcome the feeling. Firstly I have to commend her effort and courage to come out in the public and to share her thoughts, though she never did lack the courage.

To shed some background (with generous amounts of paraphrasing), she talks about being being unhappy or emotionally unwell, and how such a feeling is normal that we all have undergone this feeling at some point in our lives. She further says, that things are NOT going to be Okay and reasons that whatever you think will make you happy will only make you happy momentarily until you need something more/different. Her solution to being happy is to set aside yourself an hour a day as “me-time” and pretend to be “happy and you do not have any problems and indulge in an activity of your choice”.

The advice at its core is quite good and the intentions are nothing but genuine. The core idea of pretending is a sound psychological tool which has been proven plenty of times, lots of self improvement ideologies do encourage the “Fake it, till you make it” approach. However, there are a few things I would have to disagree upon, here are my 5p worth of thoughts.

Ignoring the problems is not a solution and taking a stance of all the problems that exist external to you is not very responsible. For facing problems could be traumatizing, one should also be accepting of the consequences for their actions. But to build on the hour-a-day habit, taking this time to self evaluate the causes of the problems. Using the time to forgive and be compassionate to yourself. Sometimes we are so engrossed in success that we fail to see the scope of the challenges we have undertaken. And in other times. there is nothing you can do but to plough through, and come out a better person on the other side.

It is going to be Okay!

Posted on March 18, 2016 by ohhaivinny 0

Running Windows 10 on Mac on External USB3.0 disk.

To start with, let me give you the tough pill to swallow – Running Windows 7 on External Disk over USB3.0 and using it on a Mac is going to be a rather difficult work. But if you are up for that kind of shenanigans, make sure you have a Windows computer around to get you out of jail. Now that you have been warned, let us get into installing the OS.

Things you would need:

Windows computer or a Virtual Machine with Windows on it.
USB3.0 SSD Drive – You could use a normal USB3.0 Hard disk but it is going to be a bit slow, if you can deal with it.
Bootcamp Installer (Download Link)
WinToUSB Software (Download Link)
Windows 10 ISO (Download Link)
And obviously the Target machine itself.

Now to installing the ISO on the external Hard drive. For being a complicated process, WinToUSB makes this process a breeze

1. Install WinToUSB on the Windows machine (read “Or Windows VM”) and start the application.

2. On opening the application, you should see this window. Select the Windows 10 ISO and press Next.

3. Select the External Harddrive in the window and press Next.

4. Now to select the partition in which Windows is going to be installed. Make sure both the Boot partition and the System partition are the same. If you have the Professional WinToUSB select Legacy option, but if you have the free version you wouldn’t have the option. Press Next.

5. WinToUSB will now install the OS onto the Harddisk. This could take a while, and is a good time to get a cup of coffee.

6. Once the installation is complete, remove the external HDD from the Windows machine. Connect it to the Mac or Target machine, and boot into the USB HDD. Turn on the Mac and hold the Option (⌥) or Alt, to bring up the boot option screen. Select the drive labelled Windows (Drive would be coloured Yellow to indicate it is an external HDD).