Gerald D'Cunha

“Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.” Stephen King   H ow much is really enough? Is there a point in life, you and I will stop chasing, pursuing, wanting more and more and more? Will we ever say in our lives, ‘Enough’? To describe this human dilemma in Jesus’ words, “It’s as difficult for us to do that as it’s for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle.” Wanting more is a universal disease – a pandemic -   of human soul… It’s never enough… Ever. Well, if you ask me, “Have you stopped wanting more?”… Yes, my answer to that question is – “Not yet, Sir.” I know how difficult it is for me to walk through the eye of this needle… Ye dil, always, maange more… and more and more ji! T his morning, I bumped into this young man, who was my student some years ago. He lives here in this vicinity in his parents’ one-room house. In fact, he was born and has lived here for all his 30-plus years. He said, that he has been working for a real estate enterprise whi...

Pic.: Sheela Krishnamony “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”   ―   Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez     I came across a statement today: “Disillusionment is the last illusion.” It took me some time to grasp the meaning of this sentence… I am a dreamer… an idealist. I am, also, a strong optimist. But, all said and done, at the end of the day, when I see my dreams remain unfulfilled… when I see people around me not as loyal and committed as wish them to be, when aging – health and money issues – try to intimidate me, when some people relentlessly try to crush me down, and when I see myself alone when it comes to fighting many of my battles… yes, that’s the time, I sense the cloud of disillusionment in my heart… “What is the point,” I do hear my heart ask, “If things go this way in my life?” Bitterness and cynicism walk into our he...