Posts tagged "essay"
From rollicking to rolling and back

From rollicking to rolling and back

There are two kinds of people that I know of. The first sort asks everyone: ‘How do you spend your weekend?’ and goes around bumbling into a web of plans that others have made and I call him one who is brain-dead. This person usually asks his friends, relatives, distant relatives, and sometimes even strangers...
Yes, I can

Yes, I can

Even a burglar says this. So do politicians. Scamsters. Smugglers. Thieves. Rapists. And yet these three words are linked not with them but with an indomitable will. They represent the power of positive assertiveness. ‘Yes, I can’ is not a mantra to be chanted and yet they need a person’s mind to believe in the...
What do I think of when I’m not thinking?

What do I think of when I’m not thinking?

There are times when Specky suddenly asks, ‘What are you thinking?’ I want to tell her that I wasn’t thinking at all. Do I really need to think? Thinking is such a hazardous task. I will then need to question. Decide what’s right and what’s wrong. Take sides. Be a bully for a frail one....