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Jaskaran Kohli

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The good kind of formal
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#sherwani #shaadiseason #punjabiwedding #turbanstyle #indianmenswear taken in The Rockleigh Country Club by @iamjaskarankohli

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2 months ago

We came, we saw, we took a thousand family selfies. Having everyone here for the holidays was the reset I didn’t know I needed. It’s not just about the places we go, but the people who make it feel like home.
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#holidayseason #familyreunion #laketahoe #wintervibes #makingmemories #familyfirst #reunited #holidaycheer #panjabifamily #winterwonderland taken in Lake Tahoe, California by @iamjaskarankohli

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9 months ago

My racket knows my mood before I do. Took me years to realize it.
My natural style is attack. I play to win, plain and simple. When my head is clear, I don't hold anything back. I attack, and I attack again. Every bird, every rally, I'm coming forward, taking it early, smashing it down. And I don't just want the win, I want it in a way that gets under people's skin. Full send, hundred and ten percent.
But somewhere in the last two or three years, life got harder in ways I didn't always have words for, and it started showing up in my game. Some days I'm out there giving what looks like my best, and I know myself it isn't. Not because I'm tired, my legs are fine. It's because my head is somewhere else. Something happened that day, something's bugging me, and it quietly follows me onto the court.
I used to finish those games and tell myself I was just tired. But I wasn't. I was never tired. I was just somewhere else.
I noticed it properly early last year and decided I had to work on it. So now, every single time before I step on court, I tell myself two words. Fuck it. Whatever is running in my head, fuck it, focus on what's in front of me. Push to be my natural self. Because I am in love with the person I am on the court, and I want to be him more often.
I won't lie, the fuck it doesn't work every time. But whenever it does, I walk off genuinely proud of myself, because I just won a war against my own brain. And honestly, I've gotten so much better at it. Not because it got easier, but because I started backing myself more and stopped letting outside noise get to me.
Funny part is it shows in everything. Good day and I'll pile it on, ankle weights, make it harder on myself. Off day and even my attire goes sluggish, like my body's already told on me before I've hit a single shuttle.
Badminton is where I first learned to read all this in myself. And channeling it here is what taught me to carry it everywhere else. Win or lose, the court always tells me the truth about where my head is.
That's the thing about this game. It doesn't let me lie to myself.
So tell me, does this happen to everyone, or is it just me?
#badminton #badmintonlife #mentalgame #racketsports #bad taken in San Francisco, California by @iamjaskarankohli

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3 months ago

It's Friday, I'm in meetings, and my brain is still watching this on loop.
#headtrip #HeadTrip #SwedishHouseMafia #rave #2026Vibes taken in Empire Polo Club by @iamjaskarankohli

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2 days ago

People often ask me how I'm so confident. Honestly? It's been a journey, and I've only recently started feeling comfortable in my own skin.

I was always the under-confident kid. The one who stood at the back and kept his colors muted. Wearing random colors still feels new to me.

I tend to see life in black and white. Right or wrong, win or lose. But I'm learning it's never that simple. Life is a mix of colors, and so are we.

So on Day 2, I wore yellow for the sun, and blue for the sky and its reflection in the water. 💛💙 Van Gogh did the same thing. In Starry Night, he painted a dark sky full of swirling blue and glowing yellow stars, because he saw color where everyone else saw darkness. He once wrote that the night is even more alive and richly colored than the day.

Maybe that's what confidence really is: not being fearless, just learning to see your own colors, even on the dark days. ✨

#HeadTrip #StarryNight #festivalfashion #mentalhealth taken in Empire Polo Club by @iamjaskarankohli

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4 days ago

Night one, the sky shut it all down. ⚡

Lightning cracked over the polo fields, the music stopped mid-set, and thousands of us walked out into the dark not knowing if we'd get a second chance.

We did.
Night two, Dom Dolla b2b Kettama, Skrillex, Calvin Harris and Swedish House Mafia took the same stage the storm had silenced, and the sky that sent us home lit up for us instead. 🎆

I've learned that life does this sometimes. It takes something from you, makes you sit in the disappointment, and then gives it back bigger than you ever imagined.

The storm doesn't get the final word. You just have to stay for night two. 💛

#HeadTrip #Fireworks #EDM #SwedishHouseMafia #calvinharris
@headtripindio
@applemusic
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@calvinharris
@domdolla
@skrillex taken in Empire Polo Club - Indio CA by @iamjaskarankohli

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5 days ago

Day one: The Armor. 🖤
We all build it. From every hard day, every lesson, every time we had to be the strong one. This fit is mine, worn on the outside for once.
But here's the thing about armor: it's not who you are. It's what protected who you are.
Tomorrow, I will show you what it was protecting.
One breath, one step, one day.
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#headtrip #fisher #palmspring #festival #mentalhealth taken in Empire Polo Club by @iamjaskarankohli

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7 days ago

Leap now, learn on the way down
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#GoForIt #StartNow #Mindset #Growth #KeepGoing JoshuaTree taken in Joshua Tree, California by @iamjaskarankohli

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8 days ago

Starstruck in Joshua Tree
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#MilkyWayChasers #AstroHub #NightscapeLovers #capturethenight taken in Yucca Valley, California by @iamjaskarankohli

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8 days ago

In a committed relationship with my sneakers
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#nike #travel #fitcheck taken in Palm Springs, California by @iamjaskarankohli

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9 days ago

I was everyone's yes, and my own no.
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For years, I was whoever the room needed me to be.
I liked what they liked. Laughed when they laughed.
Agreed when I didn't.
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I never said no.
Not to plans I didn't want.
Not to problems that were never mine.
I called it being a giver.
The truth? I was scared of not being liked.
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And every night, my own mind came back to haunt me.
Why am I doing this?
Why can't I just be me?
What do they think of me now?
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Nobody asked me to live like that.
I did it to myself.
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Then life hit rock bottom.
And rock bottom taught me what comfort never could.
It made me stop. Look. And choose myself.
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So I did.
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Now I dress how I want.
I laugh as loud as I want.
I say what I mean, the first time.
And when it's a no, it's a no. No guilt. No explanation.
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I still give. I always will.
But never again from an empty cup.
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And along the way, the right people found me.
They love me, push me, and let me be exactly who I am.
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Here's what I know now:
I was never meant to fit into one group.
I'm meant to meet a lot of people along the way.
Attract a few. Disappoint many.
And sleep peacefully either way.
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This version of me?
Unfiltered. Loud. Free.
I love him.
And I don't need anyone to approve that.
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Finally, I'm my own yes.
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What's one thing you've stopped doing just to be liked? 👇
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One breath, one step, one day. 🤍
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#peoplepleaser #selfworth #beyourself #mindsetmatters #externalvalidation taken in Mountain View, California by @iamjaskarankohli

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10 days ago

Life is Lifing
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. taken in Clear Lake, California by @iamjaskarankohli

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