The soft and the hard (of retirement) Arun Kumar As far as I know, the wheel of life gets a single turn between birth and death, and after completing that one cycle, it self-destructs. In doing so, the wheel goes through the innocent years of childhood, the learning years of…

Career is not that different from the boiling frog metaphor Arun Kumar We all have heard the metaphor of a frog in a pan of water sitting on a burner and temperature is slowly being raised by a fraction of degrees every so often. The metaphor goes that the frog…

You only get one chance Arun Kumar The universe I will not touch is infinitely larger in comparison with what I will see touch and see. At the end of life, I would only manage to traverse a sliver of this world and would only meander around in the vicinity…

When life ends, it really … really…really…ends Arun Kumar The possibility of dying without knowing what happens after is an ungluing bit of news. It is a bad ass factoid that has molded human behavior and created an uncountable number of superstructures of philosophical thoughts. And it is not that…

Retirement — A Perfect Storm Arun Kumar We live through different stages in our life and along the way goals, purpose, perspective keep evolving. We start from the exuberance of youth having a basket filled with infinite opportunities, and a life that stretches forever ahead of us. …

Little did I know Arun Kumar One day a hair turned gray and I said there no need to worry or go hurry hurry there is plenty of life with a wonderful wife if you cannot eat all that candy it is just dandy there will always be another day handy, but, little did I know that there will come a point marked along the line of time when there be aches in most of my joints and all I will get to eat is a mouthful of pills, and a bowl of greens sprinkled with some olive oil, and some thyme.

Caught between living and dying Arun Kumar It is the wee hours of morning and lying in bed I am thinking that sometimes it would be refreshing to wake up without needing to pass through the test of solving a crossword puzzle to figure out how to live through the…

Bicker Masala Arun Kumar There is a saying that the amount of bickering between humans is inversely proportional to how high the stakes are. The lower the stakes, the more bickering. I am not making this up. This is something known as Sayre’s law. The saying is generally used in…

Serendipitous Moments Arun Kumar Sometimes out of blue, words fly across the sky of our consciousness and express what we have been trying to say for a long time and say it so much better. Such serendipitous moments can happen while reading a book, clicking an innocuous link in some…