Tag: Life

  • Quality of Life

    There is a narrative that paints life as a constant march of progress. This would be true only if you cherry pick facts.

  • Chance and Life

    The lore goes – when Edison created the light bulb he said “I did not fail a thousand times, I just found a thousand ways how not to make a light bulb.” Now, think about that for a minute. If you tried to do something a thousand times. It shows determination but it also shows…

  • Hidden Cost of COVID

    I have a near and dear one who would probably be helped a great deal by having the entire range of healthcare solutions being made available. But due to age and fear of contracting COVID, the individual has not visited the hospital for over a month now despite symptoms.  According to WHO Cardiovascular diseases are…

  • Prisoner

    Money Health Happiness Capability Relationships Friendships Respect Honor Recognition Passion Drive   We all crave some or all of these things in varying capacities. Almost none of us get all of it at the same time. Human tendency is to focus on what we have lost which makes us all bent towards loss aversion. If…

  • First Times

    One of the things that is true about human nature is that our ability to face a situation improves if we have  faced such a situation already. The first time you change your job, you find the transition a lot harder than thereafter. If a family has had a case of cancer once, their ability…