The Elephant in the Room

In this world of drudgery, the perpetual hunt for desires and wants, the world with its secretive demarcation of classes, the race for strength and nuclear equipped nations, where money and status become the ultimate dream and the myth of social acceptance is born, we tend to forget our own selves. We forget, life is a journey and miss the beauty that it has to offer. We fail to see opportunities that life gives us every moment. I spent some haunting time with hospitalisation in 2008, recuperating from Takayasu disease. My hospitalisation and the never heard of disease had everyone including friends in a tizzy. Doctors, prayers, gods..well all connections were being made to ensure my speedy recovery. One such high connection was made by my wife’s maternal aunt (Mrs. Sushila Bala) – If I get out of the hospital and recover to be fit and fine again, I would visit Sabarimala the abode of Lord Aiyappa and to turn this to reality my wife’s maternal uncle (Mr. Sukumar Nair), a regular visi...

“Life is a sojourn”. A journey where the destination is apparently reached only after spending ones invaluable time pondering over impediments encountered through years – We surprisingly call it Experience. Astonishingly we do not spend time on working a way around the impediments – We sit on it, procrastinating and deviating from our goal our destination. After every dark night there is a bright day..true! It definitely does not mean you do not get out of your bed when your house is on fire pondering, “Why me of all the people?” Well it’s time to act, save your family and house. One tends to sulk and blame God and the entire system for their loss. But have you ever thought and analyzed the reason for failure thoughtfully? Is it my attitude? Or is it my way of performing tasks? Or is it truly the system around me? "I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take ...