Gerald D'Cunha

  “Acceptance does not mean resignation. It means understanding, that something is what it is, and, that there’s got to be a way through it.” Michael J. Fox   S ome days ago, I had written a Blog post titled ‘But, some people just don’t like peaches.” When I wrote this Post, what I had in my mind was this: ‘Look, I may be the sweetest, juiciest and the rarest peach on the tree. But, some people just don’t like peaches.’ Is that not true in everyone’s life? Something, always, triggers me to write my everyday Blog posts. I was unable to understand why a certain person was simply not seeing my goodness… He, on the contrary, was very critical and caustic in his views about me… Did it unsettle me? Made me feel bad and bitter? Of course, it did! I am not a stone… As Shylock (in ‘The Merchant of Venice’) bursts out with his own feelings, I, too, tend to: ‘When you prick me, don’t I cry? When you tickle me, don’t I laugh? And, yes, when you compliment me, don’t I f...

Love can touch us one time and last for a lifetime And never let go till we're gone. (From the movie ‘Titanic’ – ‘My Heart Will Go On’.) A fter many years, I watched the movie ‘Titanic’, last night, once again, on TV. It was so beautiful, so touching. The first time, I had watched the movie, some fifteen years ago, with my family. I hadn’t liked it as much as I did this time. This time around, I was all alone at home… and, there were sub-titles for me to grasp the full significance of the dialogues. I loved the movie – the story, the dialogues, the acting… the romance and the tragedy… and, of course, the message. The moral of the story. Our life is like this voyage, through this ship called ‘Titanic’. We all are headed towards the same destination – ‘Love and Happiness’. The ocean – calm, stormy or ice-cold - in which our ship is supposed to sail is the same for all of us – the affluent and the wretched, both. Our hopes and aspirations are the same… Our dream t...