Gerald D'Cunha

“Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one.” -        Andrew Wiles P eople have already started sending ‘Thank-you notes’… December has started, you see. Actually, that’s a nice feeling… both, to tell someone ‘Thank you for everything’… and to hear from someone the same… Two days ago, I saw a touching video sent to me by one of my ex-students now based in Tanzania. “Sir, I wanted to say this to you,” he wrote, “Though more than twenty years have gone by!” It was late in the night… I was about to go off to sleep. Now, who wouldn’t feel moved by a confession like that? I got a good sleep that night! Thanks-giving is one side of the coin. The other side is seeking forgiveness for hurting people around us. Thanks-giving comes to us relatively easily. But, to seek forgiveness, we need to bend more, melt more… I look back at the year that is about to dissolve and s...

“We will bankrupt ourselves  in the vain search for absolute security.” -  Dwight D. Eisenhower O ne of the greatest drives of a human being is the desire to secure his future! I am not spared from this desire. Like all my fellow-humans, most of my deeds and misdeeds come from this desire… The reason I studied… The reason I pursued a career – by being employed or self-employed… The reason I started saving and investing… The reason I kept expanding my business… The reason I got married, had children… The reason I made a house, a second and a third house… The reason I insured my life and health… The reason I started believing in Gods and Goddesses, going to a worship place of a particular faith… The reason I joined social groups and, even, joined a gym… yes, everything has its root in my desire to secure my future… True, it is one of the greatest drives of all human beings. And, there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. ...