For the restless spirit!

Year 2022 - the year where the world started its reset from a pandemic that had almost obliterated the last 2 years. And we are already at the fag end of the calendar - that last festive week when people travel to meet their loved ones, to escape from routine, they get together with friends and family to celebrate endings and welcome new beginnings.   As with each year, 2022 has also been a ride - perhaps it was a roller coaster for some whilst it was smooth sailing for the luckier ones. But a ride is a ride - it always takes you somewhere. And what better time than now to look back and see how far we have come?  I have now completed 2 years since I gave up my corporate life and the transition, whilst not quite what I had planned, seems complete. And I have zero regrets! The best way for me to relive the last 12 months is to look through my photo album on my phone (anyone who knows me will know why!!) and what I see reminds me of how blessed I am - as I see so many happy memor...

  The Oxford dictionary meaning of this word "boundary" is "a line which marks the limits of an area, a dividing line". I have always been a proponent of another kind - emotional boundaries - and these have not always been received well. For some reason, boundaries seem to have a slightly negative connotation for many - focusing more on where you can't go. We seem to forget that boundaries are also about respect - for a nation, a community, a home and very importantly, for your own personal space. We are social animals and that's how we have evolved - by doing things together, gaining in strength and gaining in power. Yet as societies evolved, especially in times of globalization, we also struggled to hold on to our individualities. The world has fast become almost a global village with a McDonald's at almost every corner. Many benefits have indeed been accrued by this breaking down of boundaries and I love it too, Yet I believe, somewhere in this journe...

..... the first 2 months of 2022 are past us now .... The central theme of the last 2 years - the pandemic - seemed to be finally easing its iron grip on the world as nations, economies, communities start to limp back to a life more resembling the one we left behind in 2019.  Yet, before we could adjust to the new normal, out of the blue and because we as humans, simply refuse to learn, war, an act of aggression against another nation comes back to our horizons, our homes, our TVs and our realities. And we thought this was a medium of decision making decades ago!   Covid was not anyone's choice or atleast we still assume it wasn't ..... war is. Recently, I have been reading the book "Sapiens" by Yuval Noah Harari and was quite interested by the ways in which we, humans, have developed over millions of years; however equally intriguing seemed the ways in which we have continued the ways of the less civilized society of yesteryears. And this wa...