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Okay, so this Spanish bugger, Francesc Miralles, son of a dressmaker and an office clerk, with bad high-school records who worked as a waiter found his Ikigai of selling self-help crap to the gullible. The first line of the book says it all - “The book came into being on a rainy night in Tokyo, when its authors sat down together for the first time in one of the city’s tiny bars’. So basically Miralles and Hector Garcia, a Japanese software engineer were sloshed when they came up with this ‘brilliant’ idea of telling a story to the world about how this handful of people on the island of Okinawa live longer than the rest of the world. And boy, how the world has lapped up the utter nonsense by buying millions of copies of, yet another scam called ‘Ikigai’. In a nutshell, Ikigai is the intersection of: 1.         1. What you love 2.        2. What the world needs 3.        3. What you are good at 4. ...

What does the doctor tell you when you are diagnosed with Diabetes? Stay away from sugar... What does the wife of a smoker tell him when he coughs incessantly? Stay away from cigarettes... What does the priest tell the person confessing to a misdemeanor? Stay away from sins... What does the father tell his wayward son? Stay away from bad company... I think these instances are enough to bring out the intent of this discussion, which is, if there are symptoms pointing to a problem/issue/disease you would be better off by "staying away" from the "cause". Moreover, have we not heard more often than enough that "Prevention is better than Cure"? The problem we are facing today is that of too much screen time. Anywhere we go, we see people staring at various types & sizes of screens - from large TVs, computers / laptops to tabs & mobile phones. Recently I saw four "friends" sitting "together" on a table-for-four at a restaura...

Ever wondered how taste evolves over lifetime? Or is it the other way round? As in, how life evolves with taste? An infant consumes BLAND...  milk Subsequently babies start with SWEET stuff... mashed apples Soon enough kids are fed SALT... regular home food Teenagers start liking SOUR food... tangy chicken, lime juice Adults move on to BITTER... whiskey, bitter-gourd Is that how Life in general also moves? BLAND... No relations, No friends, Basic needs paramount... SWEET... Develop parental connection, Unconditional Love... SALT... Friends add the spice (& salt) to life... SOUR... Disagreements; Professional (give & take) relations... BITTER... Broken relationships Just came to mind and I wrote it... Nothing much to add beyond this... Basically, as the title of my blog suggests its just to provoke a thought... Think about it...