Not just an another musing

“He who has a ‘WHY’ to live can bear any ‘HOW’ ” I first came across this quote when I was reading “ Man Search For Meaning ” by Dr. Viktor Frankl and this kind of got stuck in my heart forever. Dr. Viktor Frankl was a holocaust survivor. Being a jew himself he was transferred to Auschwitz, Dachau, and other concentration camps during Nazi occupation in Austria at the time of the Second World War. Through this book, he reflected upon his bleakest days, full of torture and soul-destroying mental conflicts, in those dreadful concentration camps and how he was able to come out alive from that hell. Unlike Dr.Frankl, most of the prisoners in the camp died because they lost their purpose, their hope, and the meaning of their existence. When suffering hit us hard and we come under the notion that everything is lost, our freedom to choose remains. It's all up to us, either to react or to the respond. Just like fate and death, Suffering is also an ineradicable part of life. Without suffe

The former prime minister of United Kingdom, Winston Churchill is often been credited to have said that,        “Never let a good crisis go to waste”  He said it in the mid-1940s, it was the time when we were approaching the end of World War II. The scrutinization made by him during the bleakest day of that dreadful pages of history has a lot to teach us today when we are fighting against this global pandemic.Adversities give so many opportunities to create new ventures. Crisis indeed comes with a lot of challenges and these challenges demand themselves to be converted into opportunities. So whenever there is a crisis, we should look at what we can do to get out of it instead of getting depressed and taking the backseat.                                                       Today is the greatest crisis that humankind is facing in recorded history. This kind of crisis has never been there. In these tough times, there is a growing inequality that is making society untenable. COVID 19 has