Colors of life

It was just a couple of years back when I gifted my wife a mobile phone. Since the phone was meant only to contact each other whenever needed, we went for a very basic one. Although it was a basic phone, it had come with a preinstalled video game called ‘snake’. From the day we bought the phone, my son and I used to get hold of it to play the game, till we better ourselves to score more and more points. One day, when I was engrossed in playing the game, my wife asked me, “why like children you are crazy about this an otherwise very silly game?” To this I explained her that although it’s a silly game, it very much holds lessons for living life better. In an exasperation to what I remarked, she wanted me to elaborate it a bit so that she can understand clearly what I intended to say. I further explained her that there are different levels to play the game and each level is divided into a set of challenges and difficulties. And, to move on to the next level one has to success...

During Diwali vacation my nephew had come to stay at our place. Like we use to get homework for Diwali vacation, now a days, children call the same thing as a project work. For his project work, he had to write a passage on ‘ Health is wealth ’ and he wanted me to help him completing the task. I took the task as an opportunity, since I often feel starved of having enough ideas to write about. Soon I penned down a passage keeping his age in mind and taking real life instances  from my childhood. And here is what I wrote for him… Could you believe that I still get a feeling of gloom when I remember the days I had fallen ill. A few months ago I had a viral fewer which kept me bed ridden for several days. Lying on the bed in a corner of my room I used to hear voices of children playing outside which prompted me to get up and join them. But, I remember how weak I used to feel getting up which forced me to drop the idea of going out. It was only after a few days when...