Gerald D'Cunha

I don’t need to be a Christ’s follower to understand why it is important for me to make peace with my brother! The ‘brother’ is the Biblical brother: my fellow-human! Living a life, holding on to our past hurts and grudges, is akin to going about our lives carrying a heavy millstone around our hearts… It is bound to crush us down with misery! We don’t need to be Christians to understand that, feel that… The heavy burden of our animosity is just unbearable… We only go around pretending as if it is nothing. Lie! It is really something huge… Yes, a huge burden to carry! In Life, the most sincere prayer has to be this: “God, please help me make peace with my brother, my fellow-human.” We need the strength of our wisdom and humility to offer this prayer before God… No, it is not so easy… Our vanity comes on our way… And, even if it doesn’t… even if we have melted and offered the olive-branch to our brother, he may not be ready, may not...

A bad memory can be very embarrassing… But, it could be a great blessing in life, too! Just yesterday, I heard a young girl excitedly approaching towards me. “Hi sir, how are you?” she exclaimed, “So nice to see you.” “I am good, thank you,” I reciprocated, “How are you?” “I hope, you remember me,” the girl said. Honestly, I did not. “I am Sneha*, from last year’s batch,” I was helped. Last year had just gotten over… and, imagine, what has happened to my memory! Luckily, such things don’t happen to me, always. Age is, certainly, responsible for our memory loss. But, more than that, I think, it is our cluttered mind… There is so much on our minds, so much clutter, that there is hardly any space to store in this human hard-disk… Today, I was thinking… How could I delete some data… and send to the junk mail box… or, delete it permanently, never ever to be able to retrieve it… Yes, I was, seriously, thinking about ...

Little children are so pure, so beautiful. These days, I spend a lot of my time with these innocent angels… Yes, to teach them some things, which will help them grow up as fine individuals in life. The world calls such things as ‘Personality Development’. Whatever they call it, it is about growing up in life with a strong mind and a beautiful heart. Yes, a healthy body, as well.  From my own experience of growing up over all my fifty-four years in this world, I have been whispering in those lovely hearts two things in this regard: “Honey, don’t complain too much.”… “Learn to forget and forgive quickly.” In fact, little children have the shortest memory: One moment they fight like worst enemies; the next moment they cozy-up like the best pals! That’s really so refreshing about children. They don’t bear grudges; they don’t conspire against others… They don’t like poison in their hearts… In fact, they do not know what poison is! Beari...