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A recent whatsapp video brought out a very valid message, which I want to share with you. "A blind boy sits in a busy road corner with a placard reading, 'I am blind. Please help'. He could collect only a few coins in a day. One day a man walked by and saw the writing on the placard. After throwing some coins in the boy's hat, he changed the wordings in the placard and went away. The boy's hat was filling up fast from then on and the boy was taken by surprise. The very next day the same man happened to walk by the road. The boy could recognize him by his footsteps. He asked the man what he did the previous day, which resulted in him collecting more coins. The man said that he changed the writing in the placard as follows: 'Today is a beautiful day; but I cannot see". This made a whole lot of difference. The boy told the man, that the meaning is the same. Yes,  the earlier message in the placard proclaimed that the boy was blind but the second message co...

My wife recently, quipped jokingly, "the body parts where we do not apply some ointment, or pain reliever have become very minimal now". Very true! Senior citizens start getting pain and ailment all over the body, without any exemption. It starts with 'headache' to 'pain in the heal'. Like any engine getting rusted over it's lifespan, the body parts of human beings too get worn out, over a period. That is how God has designed us. The pain and ailment are the results of the sedentary life that we live now (compared to our forefathers). Most of the time we cannot avoid such lifestyle, but we can do amends for this, by resorting to 'work-outs'. It need not necessarily be in 'gym'. There are so many 'easy-to-do' exercises (that can be carried out at our homes). But most of the time we invent excuses for not doing any exercise. Helping the spouse in house-hold chores is another 'important and pleasant exercise'. This way, we can...