Life Delicacies

  Gifts are wonderful, they give joy at least for a few minutes, some forever, an expression of love and affection. With the passage of time the sense behind giving gifts has changed: it has become “give and take”: sometimes a burden you have to bear: at other times simply because you have to be part of the crowd to the celebration, it is also a compulsion when you have to take care of the prestige and social status of others, so called social obligations also impose their compulsions. So people many a times pass on things they do not like to keep at their home and many a times things which they bought for “giving and taking”, passing on previous gifts to someone else even as small things as a “set of glass tumblers”, some even are sharp enough to pass on empty envelope too or be a part of the crowd handing over gifts but himself cleverly not giving anything. Have the courage and conviction to politely but firmly refuse such gifts.   Gifts given at bereavement have their own...

                                                     WAITING A WONDER CONCEPT The life on this wonderful planet is based on number of concepts and “waiting” is one of them: we may agree or not: nothing happens in a jiffy. Parents have to wait for their offspring for full nine months: this is the journey, the offspring has to undergo before he is free and the parents get a son or a daughter: but this journey despite all the issues is worth the wait both for the parents as well as their offspring: a “mother” is also born along with the baby and it makes a “couple” a “family”. Nature gives you fruits, vegetables, grains, dry fruits, pulses and so many other things but we have to wait for the season to come and harvest to ripe. “Urge to create” was present in the space, obviously much before the Universe was created and still being created and as soon as con...