Refractive Thoughts

  Wishing you a very happy new year 2022!   Wishing all of us virus-free days in the near future, but then specifically to you let health-wealth-happiness be bestowed in abundance by the Lord Wishing all of us success and merriment, but then specifically to you let the joy of a win in everything that you set forth be a blessing by the Lord Wishing all of us enhanced bonding and friendship, but then specifically to you let our bridge stay strong as an offering to the Lord Wishing all of us travel into the places we love, but then specifically to you to be able to travel to your family and friends as a gratitude to the Lord Wishing all of us peace and prosperity, but then specifically to you let the inner peace and tranquillity be the light shone by the Lord Almost there, ready to step into a new year it mandates us to shine a little but bright light on the days ahead into the future.   Just so that it augurs well, it is imperative to erase the dark days which h...

  Famous poet William Wordsworth in his poem “My Heart Leaps Up” wrote “The Child Is Father of the Man.”   It implies that if any experience in adulthood is similar or same as that in childhood it makes it a better experience given the journey through life stages. Human beings are essentially a final product of some balance of nature and nurture components, the underlying substrata of the vast and ever-growing field of psychology.   The debate goes on, like they say till the ‘cows come home,’ as to which component has a stronger influence to shape an individual in later years.   I have no formal education in psychology but a fleeting interest to dabble into a few articles and form my opinion. My take is that in early years one’s genes shape an individual until they experience certain life-defining moments which harden their personality.   Destiny then defines their travel into the deep years of age.   A proverb in kannada which when translated states th...