Pain is both a product and by-product of our life. Clearly, we’re no stranger to pain as we’ve met its variant forms on a variety of occasions, in a variety of situations, with a whole variety of responses to it. Pain becomes that entirely unwanted but all too common partner who refuses to leave us alone for too long, if it leaves us alone at … [Read more...]

Memories can either be annoying or painful recollections of times and events that we would much prefer to completely erase from the whiteboard of our memories. Or they might be brazenly intrusive, throwing their images across the forefront of our minds at the most inopportune of times. And in some more soothing cases they might be calming and … [Read more...]

It seems that we have this distastefuland rather corroding tendency to take things for granted. It’s a sorry and perpetually debilitating reality that the more we have of something, the more we just assume that ‘it is.’ Things unfairly drop off of our radar simply because of the persistence of their existence in our lives. And in the oddity of … [Read more...]

It may be that our actions say more about us than just about anything else that we do. Our actions decisively reveal many things about us that are otherwise hidden behind a thin façade of congeniality, the silken veil of social courtesies, and other appropriate behaviors that lend us an air of refinement and chivalry. Yet, we rarely look at our … [Read more...]

Love your enemies. That’s a very tall order. In fact it can be such a tall order that we feel it to be out of our reach altogether. Not only is it a tall order, at times it seems irrational, excessively pacifistic, and a decision made by weak people too sheepish to stand up when they should stand up. Loving our enemies is tough indeed. Yet, … [Read more...]