Welcome the Unexpected..!
One morning I found my driver hadn’t come for work, because he was drunk, and I felt very angry about it. Angry, because I disliked my morning being ruined by the unexpected. We all hate anything unexpected, but quite often it’s during that unexpected time that strange things happen! A…
Mountain Top Experiences..!
What exactly do you think is a mountain top experience? Yes, it’s the exhilarating feeling of standing on the peak of a mountain, a feeling of victory, of adrenalin rushing in after a long, tedious climb, and finally the reaching of the pinnacle. What a great feeling! You are on…
Are You Being Battered?
Not just by someone, but by life itself? Being battered by life is part of living life! No ship is made to sit in the dry docks or weigh anchor in the harbour: The test of a ship is when it pits itself against the worst storms and wins. So…
Keep the Fizz Going..!
So often we are excited to begin a new task or project or assignment and we start off with a bang! But often it’s like opening a soda bottle; initially there’s a lot of fizz, and then it’s gone. I remember getting this same feeling a few months ago when…
Jes’ Keep Playin’..!
Players win, players lose, players prepare, players practise, players get hurt but players get up. No matter what the outcome is, players keep playin..!. After years of hard work, Thomas Carlyl finished the manuscript of his book and gave it to a friend to read. The friend’s housekeeper mistook the…
Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.