IT'S NOT JUST THE LEAST I CAN DO; IT'S PROBABLY ALL I CAN DO
“It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” ― William Ernest Henley , Echoes of Life and Death; I s man really the master of his fate and captain of his soul? When I first came across this famous poem of Henley, I was in my early twenties… Hot blood ran through my veins and I would assume that I possessed within me the power to stop the sunset… Yes, just like Lord Krishna did in Kurukshetra ! This was also the time, when I came across another motivational war-cry from Vince Lombardi: “Winners never quit and quitters never win...” Today, after almost four decades and many, many heart-burns, I have come to the conclusion, that Man, being human, can do only so much to alter his fate… Yes, only so much. There are so many problems in my life, I have simply not been able to solve with the best of my intentions and efforts. Those problems, now, ...