Gerald D'Cunha

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” -      Johann Wolfgang von Goethe W hat is not required, should go… What is not important, not to be involved in. It doesn’t matter who picks up what you drop… It really doesn’t matter who takes the credit for what you have not decided to involve in. Most of us learn the importance of ‘priorities’ in life only the hard way. A few bruises, even wounds, are mandatory prerequisites. Or, so it seems! Health becomes a priority, for most of us, only when we start losing it. I said ‘for most of us’. Similarly, those of us who keep professing the futility of money and its danger, only begin to realize its importance only when we are driven to the wall when we don’t have it… And, those of us, who are obsessed with it, begin to sense the value of ‘things other than money’ only when the money that we amass cannot be of any help to us… Some o...

    Pic.: Madan Manik   I f we think, anything in life comes free to us, then, we are fools of the first order! Idiots! In life, nothing comes free… Yes, everything comes with a price. If they say, it is ‘free’… Please, don’t believe them. They are fooling you… Or, you are fooling yourself! When we go to a restaurant to eat, we see the menu… and, you know how carefully we study the price against each dish. Importantly, we check how much money we carry in our pockets or banks. But, at someone’s wedding reception, we hog as if we have been on a fast for months! Just imagine, how carelessly and how insensitively we waste food at such places! Most of us eat there more than what is needed for our stomachs! Hello, somebody pays by his nose for what we hog like gluttons and for what we waste like idiots! They say, now a days, WhatsApp is free. That’s the reason why they want all of us to be on it. Then, they make gro...