Gerald D'Cunha

Pic.: Chetna Shetty "If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.” -        Arthur Ashe S ome people can charge you with energy, life. Kannan, who must be older than I am (I am 57), is one of them. You can feel he is coming from yards and yards of distance… You can feel his energy. And, he can regale you with his stories – most of them revolve around his countryside adventures… “When it is pouring, I get into my car… and drive for miles,” he told us this morning in our Tai Chi class, “I love the interiors, the rustic landscape… simple life, simple people and simple pleasures. You shouldn’t plan too much, just get into your car and go… Let the road take you!” I loved the last line: “Let the road take you!” Kannan had to battle Prostate cancer. He had started Tai Chi as per his doctor’s advice. Yes, he has immensely benef...

I liked what Mrs. Sonia Gandhi said at the rally, in Delhi, yesterday. “Those who dig ditches for others, have a well ready for them!” I will write something on the old proverb which Mrs. Gandhi has used here… and, leave the parties, politics and corruption alone! D igging ditches for others is a mindset! The moment we don this mindset, we become so obsessed with proving the other person guilty… getting him punished… that, eventually, the ditch becomes so big, so deep… that it becomes a ‘ready well’… in which, we - the obsessed ditch-diggers – end up being! My experience has been that, this is bound to happen. This is the Law of life! Apply this Law in any field of life: relationships, family, organizations, business, religion, administration, politics wherever. If our obsession is to prove the other person guilty - expose him, defame him, punish him, cause trauma to him… the Nature doesn’t allow that to take place… Because, we ...