The Walkabout

Lynette Scavo: Hey! Mary-Alice, are you okay?
Mary Alice Young: Yes, thank you. I’m fine.
Lynette: No, you’re not. I can tell. Please, tell me what’s wrong. Let me save you.
Mary Alice: You can’t.
Lynette: Why not?
Mary Alice: Sweety, we can’t prevent what we can’t predict!
Lynette: Isn’t there anything I could do?
Mary Alice: Yes. You can enjoy this [...]

“Step by step, heart to heart, left right left
We all fall down like toy soldiers
Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win
But the battle wages on for toy soldiers.”
- Eminem (Like Toy Soldiers)

A Time of Crisis
Reading news articles yesterday, I realized just how many things need our urgent attention.
World leaders are currently meeting in Denmark [...]

Critical Thinking is a vital part of development and cognition. Every action is predicated on one’s thought process, it’s therefore imperative that the thinking itself be healthy and forward-looking.

Critical Thinking: Tools For Taking Charge Of Your Professional And Personal Life, was published in 2002 by the Financial Times Prentice Hall. It’s written by Richard Paul [...]

“The expected is just what keeps us steady, standing, still
The expected is just the beginning
The unexpected is what changes our lives.”
- Meredith Grey (in Grey’s Anatomy Season 3 Episode 13)
Have you ever had very great expectations, only to have them nipped in the bud at the eleventh hour? Have you ever had something you highly [...]

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 [...]

Stress-Free Living
This weekend, I came across a preview of this seemingly good book.
It is titled ‘Why Make Yourself Crazy: 400 Strategies for a Stress-free Life’ by by G. Gaynor McTigue, the author of ‘Life’s Little Frustration Book’.

Book Highlights

1. Do One thing at a time
2. Throw something out every day
3. Cut down on competitive stress
4. Eliminate [...]

Following is a TED Talk by Eve Ensler, founder of the Vagina Monologues.
Be edified:
Learn, share and be safe & secure.

Life has a way of presenting situations that often seem impossible.
Such situations are usually appropriate for us to go the extra mile, try one more time, gauge our limits or even realize our potential.
And this only happens if we take the initiative. . .

The following song by Amerie is quite relevant during those times when [...]

Recently, I downloaded ‘What Do You Want To Do With Your Life?’ by Hans Glint.
This eBook is supposedly a “Life Plan to find Your Answer”.

In the Preface:
“Why do they always tell us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want, and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in [...]

HOPE is the bridge that connects you to where you want to go.
FAITH assures you that the bridge will hold.
LOVE gives you a reason to cross it.
The Shawshank Redemption is my all time favorite movie. Morgan Freeman’s narration is very convincing and captivating, the plot is both compelling and inspiring and much more…

This movie is [...]