2021
Friends One of the most cherished relationships in life. We all have friends…or we think we have…until proven otherwise. Right from early childhood we try to make friends and continue to do so for a long time in life. Then we steady ourselves sometime in our middle years, with a few to call our friends. […]
Next set of cardinal truths If you can do it, you get to do more and more of it. It’s up to you to know when it gets to be too much! Things happen when they have to happen…not a moment before, not a moment after We easily brand others condemning them as not being […]
What a pleasant emotional exercise it is! But have you ever noticed how often we humans laugh in a day? Research says we adults laugh only 17 times a day whereas children laugh about 300 times a day! Other researchers moderate the children’s laughter to about 150 times a day. Still, there is vast difference […]
Arguments One of the most proliferate human behaviours is to argue with anybody and everybody on everything under the sun! it’s the bane of our life… Why we must not argue No point in arguing about others beliefs; that person is not going to change his beliefs People rationalize things according to their convenience…no amount […]
Can we live by some rules? See the good things in a situation first Think positive first before jumping to negative outcomes Trust people first before distrusting them Pick up the newspaper, and read good news first Listen to others talk Talk less about yourself Every day, watch children play Listen to music you enjoy […]
My Maternal Grand mother She was Serenity personified. I heard that she never went to school. But that did not stop her from learning to read. She was married at a very early age and took on household responsibilities very early too. Having spent most of her life within an extended family, we youngsters heard […]
The whole gamut of experiences Those born around the 1946 to 1964 … We are the baby boomers… according to the Americans. No other generation might have seen the gamut of changes in life styles like our generation. Here is a list I could gather from my experience of everyday life: From 5 to 10 […]
Still continued, Cardinal truths… Men have lots of patience with machines and animals…not so much with co- humans Why is it that we are busy performing rituals rather than doing our duty towards others in our family and community? Complaining endlessly about life is just that…only complaining, they are hardly looking for solutions Those who […]
The demands we make on our mothers We humans have heard and lived the following “truths” Children love their mother more than anything else in this world Scriptures, poetry and sundry ancient writings call up on us to place mothers alongside Gods and worship them We swear on our mothers We ‘go home to mother’. […]