“It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by two words. I’m sorry.” …… MATSHONA DHLIWAYO. There is a subtle difference between saying “I am sorry” and “I apologize.” An Apology is a formal admission of wrongdoing and is more like a commercial and professional affair. It is undoubtedly not heartfelt – i.e., …
COMPASSION ……. Does it travel in Genes?
Compassion is an understanding or pity for someone who is suffering. It is a Moral VIRTUE. There is an intense and uncontrollable desire to help. “The LORD is gracious and righteous; our GOD is full of Compassion. Let your compassion come to me that I may live, for your law is my delight.” ….. …
COMFORTABLY NUMB…. A divine state
“….. when I was a child I had fever…. My hands felt just like two balloons … Now I have got that feeling once again … I can’t explain you would not understand … This is not how I am … I have become Comfortably Numb…” .. Excerpts from the famous number by …
LIVING IN DENIAL…. Life of an Ostrich
“The human mind has a primitive ego defence mechanism that negates all realities that produce too much stress for the brain to handle, its called DENIAL”….. DAN BROWN in Inferno. As the saying goes …. The Ostrich instinctively buries its head in the sand hoping that the trouble in the form of a pack …
LIFE IN AN AQUARIUM…. Are we stuck in a TIME LOOP
Looking at the small aquarium sitting in my office, I often wonder about the life of the teeny weeny fish who day and night have to live through claustrophobia. I wish I could scan their emotions and understand their mental status. Remember 1993, Bill Murray movie, ‘Ground Hog Day?. The Protagonist falls into the …
VIRTUAL RELATIONSHIPS…. A boon or a curse.
A relationship where people are not physically present but communicate exclusively via email, texting, or another electronic communication device is called a Virtual Relationship. In a fast-moving world with an intricate brainy system where everything is available, but there is a shortage of time, life becomes fast-tracked and virtual. “PEN- FRIEND”….. remember this? During …
The ordeal of getting married…. PRESSURE COOKER.
Everyone has a point of view….There is no age for marriage… It is your life after all …..single doesn’t mean sad. “Gupta jee how old is your son?” Sharma jee asked my father. “He is twenty-four”. “Are you not thinking of his marriage?” Sharma jee asked with a legitimate concern. My father …
Those scars, etch marks and impressions… The fantastic power of words.
The Chicxulub crater, in Yucatan Mexico, was caused by the impact of a giant Meteor, scarring the Earth’s face many years ago. An ASTEROID impacted our planet some 66 million years ago, and the scar was so enormous that there was mass extinction, and Dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the Earth. SMALLPOX. …
Characters! Do they seep in us or we grow in them
The literal meaning of Character [in short] is. . . ‘the qualities that make somebody different from the others.’ But in regular use, don’t we refer to a particular person as A CHARACTER? Are we not the characters? Characters of all kinds. We are born with few traits and many we imbibe from the people or …
LGBTQ, The beginning of a new era. Brilliance in the Horizon
Humans are born with unfocused sexual libidinal desires. Homosexuality is just a deviation from this. . . Homosexuality is not an illness or a neurotic conflict. Sigmund Freud. A child is born with a neutral sexuality. The realization of the male and female differentiation comes as the social obligations grow, and the child discovers on …