Are you on the winning team?

Now ‘winning and losing’ is something we have known at the outset in childhood itself. Being the winner oneself is just one dimension, even cheering for the winning team is imperative; else you’re a ‘loser’. When we spend those large sums of money on attending live games, or betting on racing horses, it’s your respect at stake not the horses’! We gamble, and if we lose, we lose the game, the bet, probably some money, and apparently our self-regard too! What an irrational world this planet has become!

Goals: are they set right?

Routinely, we have a gazillion goals we want to fulfill. Rightly so if a footballer doesn't intend to score a goal, he’s nothing short of a fool kicking a ball around purposelessly in the field. Goals are essential, goals are important; goals give purpose to action. We want to lose weight, get confident, voice opinions, be punctual, finish reading that book, start studying for upcoming exams, propose to our love, seize the day... There are desires, wishes, dreams and wants; those are not goals. Goal setting has always been a very tedious task; accomplishing it; another challenge in itself. Destinations need to be set; and the path to reach there ought to be chalked too. The perfect and most beautiful destinations on the mountain tops need a path else no one can reach up there to bask in the beauty. The exquisiteness loses its worth if there’s no one to know it. We need to appreciate the beauty. We need the path to that goal…