Life as I know It

Go to the Home Page The purpose of this post is to spread awareness about the missing child and I would urge my fellow bloggers to do the same. I recently received a forwarded mail, which was not a compilation of jokes, or puzzles or fascinating pictures of nature or technology, but a desperate plea by a father whose daughter (Apurva) went missing during the Tsunami disaster and even after more than four years, the family has not been able to locate the missing girl. Here's a copy of the forwarded message: Mr. Ravi Shankar was was posted in CAR-NICOBAR in the year 2004 as a sergeant in the INDIAN AIR-FORCE. On 26th December that year his family fell victim to the unfortunateTsunami that struck the eastern coast. He along with his family was washed in the deadly waters. Reaching out, his wife managed to cling onto a tree but his small son had swallowed too much water and passed away in her arms. Ravi too lost grip of his daughter's hand and she was washed away. Sometime late

Go to the Home Page At some time in life, one has to stop being the person one has been and start being the person one wants to be. All that is required is vision, to know what to be, and courage, to be. This post was supposed to end here, but while I decided a suitable title for it, I read about the origin of the phrase - " to be, or not to be " . It comes from William Shakespeare's Hamlet and is one of the most famous quotations in world literature . The basic interpretation is this: the choice between the life of action ("to be") and the life of silent acceptance ("not to be"). A choice each of us makes someday. Go to the Home Page