Reflective Resonances

April-25-2012   A beautiful Monday morning yet again. Mornings have never been any lesser beautiful to me because every morning I feel grateful for the phenomenon called life, and believe it’s going to be a wonderful day of unimaginable possibilities! Today is much special as I am doubly assured of the beauty of this day. With an old lady from the neighborhood I have taken a tri-wheeler ride to the examination center in Nungambakkam. She has made sure to keep buffer time in hand, so the student and exam coordinator don’t worry about our arrival. We were sharing a plethora of random thoughts on life, college days, ambition, circumstances, what changes what, also of course my favorite breakfast Idlys….and a lot more along our way to the exam center. It took us 1 hr 40 minutes to reach the college premises and she introduced me to a student named Dharma. Dharma didn’t know who I was and if I even existed, but today he has been waiting for me. I greeted him to say, hello Dharma...

3-May-2012 Is being high paid so important and ever enough? For a lot us it would be a sort of appalling question to hear. Fo r many though it i s a genuine gentle question they might have asked innumerable times to themselves. Earning could possibly never be an abhorrence . H owever the difference lies in what one wants to earn. Masses of people yearn to earn, everyone in your circles and those in their circles might be seen to be racing for riches. The rule is to rule the ‘game of life’ with the wand of might, and the might is mone y, period. I have hear d it for as old as I am and everyone else too , but the modus operandi of ‘Earn more money to feel more Powerful’ unfortunately ceases to apply after ascending a few levels on the Maslow's hierarchy of needs.  The re is tiny yet swelling size of p opulation who believes that to live is to learn . T hough learning incurs some cost, the cost is balanced by the values we disc o ver , values that make us constant pract...