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When is the right time?

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 Few days back I had attended a funeral. My colleague’s father who was 91 years old died of Corona virus, even after the traces left him. I observed that most of them, who had come to the funeral said only one thing, might have been nice if he had lived for few more days. While my colleague acted as if the man had died in his prime age. No offence meant, I felt 90 is God’s abundant love, his blessing for the man to live more and see three generations after him. While just yesterday one of my neighbor’s mother passed away with a massive cardiac arrest, I happen to hear the same comments, she was just 65 years, and this is not the time for her to die, too early for God to take her away. It is not fair on the part of fate, well this put me to think, is there any right age to die, that we would feel satisfied and say yes, he/she died it is a good age to die? Well in my opinion no human prefers to die at any age, be it 90 or 16. Life is precious to us, so precious that even after living a l

The Road Not Taken

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  On seeing this picture in the net, my brain tickled me and brought the great poet Frost’s work ‘The road not taken’ of course it is still misunderstood by many of his readers. On an organizational context are we ever ready to take the road not taken? Thinking loud definitely no, may be for Frost it made a lot of difference, but is it possible for us? We live in a world which is full of ‘Yes Men’ and where any counter argument with your superior would not be taken in the right sense. Being ethically right is the most toughest thing that any employee could ever do these days, easier path trodden is the one which is unethical, which most of us follow. By unethical I don’t mean using substances at work or swindling money, even taking office stationary home is unethical. On a lighter note like how Marie Antoinette (Bloody Mary) said ‘if they don’t have bread ask them to eat cakes’ supply every employee with excess so that they will not look out for unethical ways to get things. Now if tha