The Walkabout

“…can’t change the past. Can’t do it. Whatever happened, happened.
We’re the variables. People. We think. We reason. We make choices. We have free will. We can change our destiny.”
- Daniel Faraday (LOST s05ep14, The Variable)
LOST

I begin today’s post by proudly confessing that I’m a Lostie (an ardent fan of the TV Series LOST). In fact, [...]

“I’ll tell you something,
It’s not hard to die when you know you have lived, and I did.
Oh, how I lived.”
- Edie Britt (Desperate Housewives s05e19)

The Lessons We Must Learn
Only yesterday, I was watching season 5 of Desperate Housewives. The 100th episode (s05e13) is titled “The Best Thing That Ever Could Have Happened”. Here, residents of [...]

The year was 1996. I was in High School. All was not well. I had quite many problems and was nearly depressed. I’ll spare you the poignant details, let’s just say it was really bad at the time.
But then I shared. And a friend wrote me the note below, that did wonders and totally changed [...]

A friend recently asked me why and how I am especially passionate about my work (web/graphic design and creative writing). Another one complimented me on my profound Facebook and Twitter updates, and made an informed guess that I must be a dude who reads a lot. Which is true.

Earlier today, I was watching Charles Leadbeater’s [...]

“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime
And departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time
So let us be up and doing
With a heart for any fate
Still achieving, still pursuing
Learn to labor and to wait.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every once in a while, life presents us with people or situations that [...]

“A bond was created
Doctors, health workers and volunteers from 30 different countries
of every race, religion, color, culture, and nation
worked together and fought alongside each other
fought against a common enemy
not against each other.
How can that not make you feel optimistic for the future?”

Larry Brilliant, Head of Google.org gave this compelling talk about how smallpox was eradicated [...]

“Words are things
And a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew upon a thought,
Produces that which makes thousands
Perhaps millions, think.”
- LORD BYRON

The Essence of copy writing in advertising
All adverts are crafted so as to attract the attention of the audience, long enough to facilitate the communication of a message that is memorable, and can elicit a [...]

The Human Condition
The human condition is such that we have the innate ability to do whatever it takes to protect ourselves from harm. It is the self-preservation instinct. The instinct that ensures that a species does not become extinct.
Taken to another level, this is what made the marine iguanas of the Galapagos islands learn how [...]

Listening to what we Hear
I have always loved music. I therefore amassed a very impressive music collection. And pimped my sound system. All done, I kept rocking and nodding my head. I thought I had it all.
But that was not all. Far from it.
A few years back, I started listening to the words. Over and [...]