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A small boy came running to a wise man, crying. He was hurt. The wise man asked what had happened. The boy explained: he’d seen a black cat caught in a wire fence, struggling and hurting herself as she tried to break free. Feeling for her, he tried to help — carefully freeing her from the wires. But the moment she was free, she swiped her paw across his hand, …
It’s a very human habit — keeping the things we love the most tucked away, saved for “someday,” instead of actually using and enjoying them. We tell ourselves we’re preserving them, saving them for a special occasion. But everything ages. Everything loses its beauty and purpose over time if it’s never actually lived. What good is something kept too safe ever doing for you? Better to enjoy it while it’s …
Gautam is Meera’s whole world, and she loves him boundlessly. She’s so attuned to his soul that she can sense what he needs even from a distance — and despite her own circumstances or state of mind, she offers it to him before he even has to ask. He rarely has to ask her for anything; he just has it, every time. But when an argument comes up about Meera …
Teenage years are special. They’re sensitive — a stage where individuality begins to take shape. It’s interesting to see this phase through both the child’s eyes and the parents’. Parents, who once felt the same fire within themselves at that age, tend to respond to it in their own children with denial or fear. Of course, times have changed, and kids today have far more exposure than we did — …
A good friend of mine, Monika, came to see me recently looking anxious and worried, asking for help. She told me she didn’t know how to handle the changes she was seeing in her daughter, and feared something was wrong. Her daughter, Preet, had become aggressive and was losing self-confidence — which surprised me, because I’d always known Preet to be sharp, confident, and outgoing. Monika explained that Preet had …
