This story begins in 2012. I was a young man with my whole life ahead of me. I worked for a school and earned minimum wage, despite having a university degree. But when you come from my home country, being underemployed is just one of those things you have to live with. My boss at…
I remember the first time I saw her. From a distance, I could tell that she was a very beautiful lady. For me, beauty was a face. Nothing about the body build. A smile and, of course, a good conversation. The closer she came, the happier I felt. Our hands touched. They were soft, but…
How winners must learn to quit effectively In a monastery, a young monk approached the Father Superior, who heads the establishment. As was the custom, each monk got a task they performed everyday till they died. To his surprise, the Father Superior gave him a metal rod and asked him to go to the…
Photo by Dollar Gill on Unsplash A baby Pig asked the Mother Pig. “Mama, why is your snout so long?” Mother Pig, beaming with a toothy smile, replied. “Patience, my child. When you grow up, you will find out.” And so the story goes. In the world of fairy tales, anything is possible. Paupers marry…
Tea or coffee? A popular question that creates that illusion of choice. It’s like saying, “To love or not to love?” For many years, I refused to believe in love. I did not see the point of it all. Why is it a thing, and would we not be better off believing in concepts like…
Words are not very good for communicating. It is quite complicated. Sometimes, you hear the words, but you’re not sure what meaning the words hold. You have probably heard of people described as orators and praised for their ability with words. But then, you actually hear them speak. The experience, not as satisfying. But mothers…
To begin, I would like to ask a question – who controls your time? Just before you respond, let’s consider the following. Everyone has a daily schedule, and all the activities in there; we have put in either consciously or unconsciously. When we fail to consciously create a schedule, the universe creates one for us…
I graduated in the year 2009 and that was the year my problems began. Like most of my peers, I had no idea what a Curriculum vitae was. Isn’t that an irony? That one should graduate from school which prepared me to go and get a job, and never at any time was I taught…
What will you have for breakfast tomorrow? Nope, undecided still? Then we need to have this talk about decisions and how to make them. Trust me, most people do not understand how decisions work. Did you know that if you make conscious decisions about 20 per cent of the things in your life, everything else…