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“Something troubling you ma?” I asked, looking at my mother and also the mother of more than a billion and a quarter who were part of her offspring.”
And then I watched as the mother of over a billion looked at the calendar furtively, “I don’t think I’ll rest till the 4th of June!” she said sadly.
“Why are you so scared, mother?” I asked.
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Maybe it’s the fact that I couldn’t complete my morning walk today, because I wasn’t feeling too well, that made me look for another alternative to walking.
I stared at the advertisement: A walk machine! All I had to do was place my still lazy feet on the machine without getting off the bed and the apparatus simulated walking movement while I went back to sleep! This was what I had been dreaming about for years; to exercise without effort. No more fighting sleep, as daylight forced its way into another day. No more searching for walking shoes in the dark. No stretching! No warming up!
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Was in Bhopal a few months ago conducting a workshop on writing and public speaking, and having an extra day before heading home, was offered a sightseeing trip by a few students. There was a lot of Bhopal to be seen and I must have whispered, “I’m getting old,” once too often when Navya said, “Stop thinking that way Bob. It’s all in the mind!”
It was a few days later, I chanced to read General Douglas Mac Arthur on ageing:
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“I’ve made many wrong decisions in my life,” said a famous person, “But I’m proud of every one of them, because I made a decision!”
Life is all about making decisions isn't it?
So often we go through life hoping a problem will go away without making any decision, because we are scared of doing the wrong thing. But I do feel even a wrong decision is better than not deciding at all.
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There are many who fight shy and even condemn technological and scientific advances in our world. But by doing so they’ll become dinosaurs in our modern age. Here are some funny stories of those who struggled to catch up:
A writer who used pen and ink was persuaded to change over to a computer. The tutor teaching him called out the instructions on the phone: “Now type the letter ‘P’ to bring up the Program Manager.”