Colors of life

Irrespective of how much care we take of ourselves, at some point of time, we all fell ill. When we fell ill, we undergo psychological changes. Some of us take it with a bit of carelessness and later find themselves even  in a big trouble. Some of us get too worried about it and start suffering. I have a bit different way of tackling illness. To me, illness brings an opportunity to interiorize. It allows me to become aware of the self. It demonstrates how the body responds to illness. It is during illness only, one can experience the potential that God has given us. Recently, my wife was detected to have Hypothyroidism. On closely examining her report, I found T3 and T4 hormones having normal values while TSH being higher than what it should be. To keep TSH under control our family doctor prescribed to start taking Thyrox 50 mg tablets every morning. After three months of time when we again got the thyroid tested, to our surprise, t...

It's very interesting to see the way life unfolds itself. Every day it brings new issues to be addressed and resolved. Out of these, the most important and perhaps the most difficult one is to manage children. Of late,  it occurred to me that there is a big difference in the way we elders look at the things. We judge or imagine taking into consideration certain conditions. But, things are usually not the same with our children. And that's what makes it very difficult to deal with them especially when they are in their puberty. Now a day, we face issues pertaining to children on a daily basis. We feel that our children do only those things we do not want them to do. When we try to explain them they simply take it as a boring lecture. We expect them to bring improvement and what happens - exactly the opposite. My wife, Leena tried to take strict actions which turned out to be ineffective. When she tried to be their friend, they started t...