Do you follow the rules? I did. Sometimes I can’t believe that I used to be Miss Goody-Two-Shoes when I was young. Oh yes, the one word that appeared on my school report card under the column ‘Conduct’ was ‘Responsible’. And I took that really seriously too. Do You Follow The Rules? It’s fine to […]
A Generous Impulse
The Dalai Lama says, ‘Never resist a generous impulse’. A Generous Impulse A child crying, pitifully, because she’s lost and has no clue where her parents are. A mother, helplessly trying to maneuver her infants and a shopping trolley An old man, worriedly trying to cross a busy road, scared of the vehicles whizzing past. […]
Compassion Is Not A Luxury
We live in dire times. The world seems beset with problems of various kinds. Natural disasters on the scale we’ve never witnessed before. Wildfires. Hurricanes. Floods. Then there’s so much race-related hatred and religious intolerance. At times, we’re overcome with the weight of it all and wonder where we’re headed. I believe that, just as […]
Let’s Make Kindness The Norm
Racism, religious intolerance and sheer cruelty often seem to be winning in a world gone mad. It seems even more pressing then to make kindness the norm. Kindness can be really simple. In a world that often seems to be without hope, it is the small (and sometimes very big) acts of kindness that renew […]
Why Bother?
I recently watched a segment of a show called The World’s Strictest Parents. Every episode documents the journey of two unruly teens from different families who are sent off for a week to a family in another part of the world. They are forced to adapt to the rules and regulations of very strict host parents. In […]