I have a question. Are we always genuinely happy for someone els every single time we hear something good about them ? I don’t think any of us will show in public our unhappiness. We all show happiness. We congratulate… Read More ›
Life and Happiness
Reflecting on Oneself and Making Changes
As Human Beings one of our most treasured abilities should be that we can (if we want) reflect on ourselves and what we do and make changes, correct what we feel is not right and then keep doing that. No… Read More ›
Today on May 30th My Birthday let me talk about Death :)
Some feel it is inauspicious to talk about Death on one’s own Birthday. Well not just on Birthday, they feel talking about death itself is a bad omen. And that’s the whole point here. I think you cannot talk about… Read More ›
My First Poetry Reading to Folks with Alzheimer’s
A month back as part of Penpositive I visited an Alzheimer’s and dementia care center to read some poetry. I connected with them quite accidently. I have this habit of just typing poetry at places where people do not type… Read More ›
How to feel complete in the new year
How does someone feel complete? On December 30th one more day and you step into a new year. Your one year is complete and you used up another year of your life. Do you feel complete? what does complete mean?… Read More ›
Why I Won’t be creating my Facebook ‘It’s been a great year’ Post
Facebook keeps telling me “Vinod, here’s what your year looked like!” Really…? And once I accept it, FB will relay to the world that “It’s been a great year for me” Facebook wants people to say that “It’s been a great year; Thanks for… Read More ›
Is there something called ‘the Meaning to Life’?
One of the interesting reasonz people give for the existence of religion is that it gives ‘meaning to life’ for many… I would agree that for many something outside religion can appear totally meaningless… and that is because they have… Read More ›
Is My Son a Prodigy?
Today is Children’s day in India….. Nov 14th and I was sitting with my 7 year old helping him with his English and Math homework and as usual he was doing his work and I was browsing Facebook; thinking what… Read More ›
Debugging A Fortune Cookie Message
Here is the image of a message I picked up from the fortune cookie during my Lunch… This Fortune Cookie message is a Japanese Proverb Nanakorobi yaoki which literally means, “Fall seven times and stand up eight”…. But I have no clue… Read More ›
10 Things for us to Think and Do Everyday
Life is like playing cards, we have no choice on the hand being dealt, but we are in control of putting up the best game we can. If there were 10 things to think and do that can fit into… Read More ›
Vinod Narayan 