Tag: appreciation

Thoughtfulness Or Ignorance?

Sometimes, I wonder if I am actually a perfect human being, just like the horoscopic signs portray me to be. Or is this feeling because of the experiences and lessons from which I have learned multiple things over the course of the years?

Look Around You!

I wrote about differences of countries which has given some difficulty to set roots down. This, in turn, got me thinking about the reasons why people choose where they want to live. I even asked for some of the reasons, and reading the responses, I realised that there were as many reasons as there were…

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A Moment In Time

Happy Friday morning everyone. I am lying in bed, awake. I listen to my wife’s steady breathing next to me and watch the sunlight filter into the bedroom through the curtains.

Zoom Your Mum

The other day I wrote a short story about a walk home from a bus stop. It was based on “Memory”, the familiar song from the musical “Cats” by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The idea was to convey the feeling of loneliness and aloneness that each of us sometimes feel. Sometimes the feeling creeps on you…

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Value Or Cost?

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the nurses and doctors have been dubbed as front liners. There were people standing on balconies, clapping for their support for nurses and other frontliners, and there were colourful lights to show appreciation for the hard work, and so on.

Out With The Old, In With The New?

It’s 2023, and many of us have made some New Year’s resolutions or simply have decided (after feeling hangoverish) to stay sober for January, at least. In other words, we are trying to be better versions of ourselves.

Times, And Years Change

Year 2022 is coming to an end, and a new one is shortly beginning. This time of the year always gets me a bit thoughtful, and I tend to look back to see what I have managed and what I still need to achieve before moving into something completely new.

Is Kindness A Weakness?

There is a saying: “don’t take my kindness as a weakness”, which is something I have been mulling over for the past few days and tried to think is it really a weakness which we just try to cover with saying like that?

Respect And Skills

Some time ago I was reading LinkedIn postings, and saw one about the need for employee skills. This piqued my interest in the post and I simply had to read the post and all the comments underneath.