♥ Heart Spots ♥

  (Short adaptation from my earlier published article on my earlier blog space, republished from medium.com )   Love and death? What sort of a topic is that? What comes to your mind when you read these two words together? Probably a web series on a streaming platform with a plot weaved around romance, love, and some mysterious murder? Doesn’t all the tragic, drama of life weave around these two predominantly? The tragic love stories from the movies often starts with the former (Love) and ends with the later (Death). Love is what most people feel good, comforting, when having wonderful life situations and what many also seek for — to a lesser or more desperate need — in some form or the other. And death? If experienced in the closer circle of one’s life creates a feeling of emptiness, of void, and a mindset — that waxes and wanes — of a meaningless dry life to just continue living. And being humans, these two — love and death — bring in loads of emotions, the spec...

(Short adaptation from my earlier published article on my earlier blog space, republished from medium.com )   Most of our current spare time, we feel restless or rest less. And instead of making attempts to tackle the source of it and addressing it, we end up trying to subdue the restlessness by a psychological act of avoidance and suppression. This results in pampering to our senses — either overeating, or consuming MSG enhanced junk food, overloading our visual and auditory sense, provided by a plethora of choices, that soon becomes addictive and unfortunately feeds to the vicious cycle of restlessness and repression. This leads to lack of will power, consumed by mental fatigue and a depressive mentality. But most of us who are still undergoing the effects of restlessness but with a keen interest to find a way out, ask “How to find time to balance?” — the biggest questions which is a blocker for most of us in following our dreams or passionate ideas or even small thin...

  (Short adaptation from my earlier published article on my earlier blog space, republished from medium.com )   In my last article on ‘ A Sense of Balance ’, I wrote about work-life balance and the different aspects in our life including family, culture, work, and the various environmental and systemic constraints that spurs the imbalance. I am trying to explore here to look at what can really help in bringing back the balance at each of our levels of action, without worrying about the different factors and constraints. So, let us go a little philosophical? In certain life situations, we often hear the term “ Only time will tell ”, “Time alone will heal”, “hope for better times”, etc. Don’t we? Times are changing. Since the time I started writing the original version of these blogs a lot has changed. And the rate of change is also probably exponentially increasing. The beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, just a year back, the changes almost every month since then and the...

(Short adaptation from my earlier published article on my earlier blog space, republished from medium.com )   I have been contemplating about work-life balance for many years during my career and whether there is a really something called work-life balance; or it is some phrase used by different people in different roles they perform in their organization; or at an individual capacity to suit their needs of the moment to vent against whatever has been bothering them in their work or life. Most people who aspire for a certain career in specific industry, have enthusiastically waited to on-board into the working life moving away from the college/university phase. The enthusiasm and momentum each one brings to excel in the work coupled with other aspects like traveling, adapting to a changing lifestyle and of course lot of money brings in a certain work schedule — a flexible work schedule. This has brought in a lot of advantages to the work and organization in terms o...