Just Like That

Fear... of too much!

FEAR is such a negative emotion, but possibly the oldest and most heeded to. In adequate amounts, it can be a life saviour; a little more and it consumes life. The line is so fine, you barely know when you have tripped. But I know, I have not just tripped but fallen with a bang. I am scared. Too scared looking at the world around me. Everything about it is so smart but hardly safe! Shouldn’t I be fearful with drones killing, pagers exploding, gadgets consuming most of my hard-earned money, my smartphone ..

The Road not taken...!

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.” If, going by the wisdom of Robert Frost’s famous lines, you do choose to take the road less travelled, make sure you are in woods and not in the concrete jungle called a city. For, in the city there are no roads less travelled these days. But in case you do manage to find one, don’t take it. If you do, it may make all the difference, but in the sense far, far different from what Frost ..

The art of being organised...

“THE more organised you are, better are your chances to achieve success in anything you do.” The wisdom of my mother’s oft-repeated and oft-ignored sentence dawns upon me every single day. Alas! Life isn’t easy to organise especially when you have put so much into it – from dreams, hard efforts, emotions, self-belief, self-doubts, conceit, etc, etc, to custom-made personality, house full of arrogance, wardrobe stuffed with ego, and gallons of make-up. Life isn’t easy to organise! When I was just my ..