‘The house with the golden windows’
21st May, 2023 A little girl lived in a small, very simple, poor house on a hill and would play in the small garden and as she grew she was able to see over the garden fence and across the valley to a wonderful house high on the hill – and this house had golden […]
‘Happy Weekend!’
29th April, 2023 Socrates once said,” Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” The weekend is here, follow your soul, do the things you truly love, rest everything can wait. Stop thinking, stop dreaming, forget your problems, forget the tensions, the stress for a day, enjoy the moment, just enjoy life, the nature in all […]
‘Look Within’
23rd April, 2023 Poet Milton’s wife would chide him when he set out to walk with the aid of a walking stick, “Every day you go out for a walk, but what do you seek to gain from this? You can’t even see properly now.” Milton would reply, “Birds sing, winds play about and caress […]
‘Besa’
31st March, 2023 While doing some research for an article, I came across this wonderful Term called ‘Besa’. It literally means ‘to keep the promise.’ Besa is the highest ethical code in Albania. One who acts according to Besa is someone who keeps his word, someone to whom one can trust one’s life and the […]
’You are Important’
25th March, 2023 You have this one life. How do you want to spend it? Apologising? Regretting? Questioning? Feeling sad? Hating yourself? Running after meaningless pursuit? You have only this one life, don’t waste in meaningless pursuits, follow your heart. And to do that, you’ll have to push yourself bcoz no one else can do […]
5 More Minutes
19th March, 2023 A woman sat down next to a man on a bench at a playground park one fine Sunday Morning. “That’s my son over there” she said, pointing to a little boy in a red T-shirt who was gliding down the slide. “He’s a fine looking boy,” the man said. “That’s my son […]
‘Life is What You Make it’
18th March, 2023 You will always be given a bare wall, add the colours that you like to create a life that you want. “If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill, Be a scrub in the valley – but be the best little scrub by the side of the rill; […]
’Live Life’
12th March, 2023 Life is like one of those races in nursery school, where you race with a marble in a spoon kept in your mouth. If the marble falls there is no point coming first. Same is with life, where health & relationships are the marble. Coming first counts only with the marble still […]
‘Build Some Slack – Wasting Time can be a Great Thing’
11th March, 2023 Recently read this wonderful piece by Morgan Housel, the author of ‘Psychology of Money’ on building slack and free time in your life. “So many people strive for efficient lives, where no hour is wasted. But an overlooked skill that doesn’t get enough attention is the idea that, Wasting time can be […]
Relax
05th March, 2023 What does it mean to relax? Despite hearing this term thousands of times during the course of our lives, very few people have deeply considered what it’s really about. Relaxing according to the dictionary, means ‘to become lax, weak, or loose, to rest or to become less intense or severe.’ When you […]