obtuse angle

      Once a painter was given a task to make a portrait of a king who had one leg and one eye. This portrait was going to be placed among the portraits of the king’s illustrious forefathers. The painter planned to have a fitting portrait of the king. The portrait finally drawn showed the king sitting on a horse, the one existing leg in the side of the horse and the king taking aim with his bow and arrow with one eye (the unavailable eye) closed. What a thoughtful presentation by the painter! He had focused on the positives. But it was still a true representation of the king. Always focus on the positive. If you put a line across the negative sign (-), you get a ‘plus’ (+).        A statistics professor wrote a problem on the board, which remained unsolved for a long time. He informed the students in the class about the problem not getting solved over many years. A student entered the class immediately after the professor gave that information....

Let me first of all confess that I am not an established blogger. Then why am I venturing into teaching someone? It is for simple folks like me, who would just want to express themselves in the way they can. Everybody has ideas, everybody gets ideas. Instead of keeping them within you, just let them in the open. Your ideas put in as a blog might be informative, educative or simply entertaining to someone. That might trigger some thoughts in others. Then why not give it a try? I have come across a few of my friends who have expressed their interest in blogging. But they hesitate to start. There is absolutely no reason to flounder; just plunge in. If we wait for the waves to subside (in the sea) to take a bath, we will never get a chance! Get along with the tide. Once you get a 'flash' on something, note it down - to develop that as a blog later. Sometimes when you read the newspaper, you would get ideas. For example, when you read a news item about someone getting cheated (...