There’s a story about why the tiger can’t climb trees. A cat teaches the tiger to watch, crouch and spring and everything to survive. After a while the tiger starts feeling hungry, and wants to eat the cat! The cat runs up a tree, and the tiger is unable to pursue it now, as the…
I was so confident of reaching the top, but failed. In a kind of unplanned way. After around maybe 40% I was resting for a few moments after the previous stretch. But resting in that posture itself was tiring. So when I resumed, my arms kind of just became numb and gave way. For a…
“Something fell from your car, don’t you want it?” I asked. “No” said the elite looking young man from the back seat of the SUV parked on the road. “Well we don’t want it either” I said – pointing to the plastic cup filled with peas he’d just thrown out. “Oh yeah” he nodded and…
Wish every kid on the planet a happy children’s day! 🙂
Familiarity breed contempt, when one is judgemental. Familiarity can breed synergy when one is non-judgemental. Some people may be interesting to get to know at first, but after a while once we get to know a bit more about the darker sides over time, a distance starts developing. Prejudices, grudges and so on keep on…
“These are things we know that we know … there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.” ~ Donald Rumsfeld Oprah Winfrey hosted a series of 10 live webinars with a very interesting teacher – a German born,…
Extremely intelligent and ‘well-educated’, Anders Behring Breivik learnt to make his own bomb using chemicals from fertilizers, use sophisticated weaponry, and plot and execute the whole thing. But SO completely cold and heartless. From the news…
They started playing this music (instrumental) at the pool. I’d just finished my swim, but jumped right back in just to listen to it. In the floodlit water, there were dancing circles of ripples… it had started drizzling. Holding on the edge of the pool, I floated on my back to stare at the dark…
…and he is us Pogo daily strip from Earth Day, 1971. (wiki) Its a tragic comedy that man would rather pursue breaking the sound barrier, than breaking the “somebody else” barrier. As long as we have the “somebody else” barrier, terrorism will thrive. Let us strive to put an end not to merely terror-ists,…
Trust I seek and I find in you Every day for us something new Open mind for a different view And nothing else matters
