The Gift of Boredom..!
Tomorrow I’ll be addressing teachers and my talk is on ‘Fostering Creativity and Imagination,’ “What’s a gift we all have received but we most dislike?” I’m going to ask, and then will tell them, ”it’s the gift of boredom.” Then I’m going to go a step farther, “If you feel…
Stop Thinking, Start Thanking..!
While walking in the park a few years ago I passed an elderly gentleman, a friend of mine, who seemed to be walking a tad slowly and pensively, “A penny for your thoughts?” I asked. “I think I’m getting old!” he said sadly, and at that time his daughter passed…
Unlock Your Fearful Mind..!
Suddenly little online ads are appearing on social media, telling us what to eat, what not to eat and the illnesses and diseases you can get by eating the wrong food. It doesn’t stop there, other ads mention wrong ways of exercising, the wrong way of sleeping and we are…
Start Getting Young..!
Have you ever thought that when we are young, we are so filled with trying to make it high in the world, to pass our exams, getting a good job, then working hard to get the next promotion and a better designation, that we really don’t have time to look…
Throw the Water Up..!
As a writer, quite often I wish I could live forever in a world of imagination and storytelling! But that cannot be and we writers may have our heads up there in the clouds of a novel, play or article, but our feet have to be on the ground. Very…
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.