The year is 1944. You and i are strangers to each other, yet we huddle close, oblivious to our nakedness, and that of the multitude waiting with us, in precise lines leading to dull and utilitarian looking barracks. You don’t know me and i don’t know you – yet we are both in line, trembling and shivering not just from…
Long, long ago, before you were born, before your parents were born – before the society that you live in was born – there was a moment. Everything that is, was not. Everything that ever will will be was no more than a possibility. That moment consisted of nothing and yet it was everything. If all of your dreams, your…
Polite conversation does not move onto religious subjects. And for good reason. It is one of those areas where people simply cannot put aside their personal perspective and debate rationally. Big call? Hardly! Wars have (and are) fought over minute differences in theology, while political decisions are inevitably flavoured by views/preferences/prejudices that are either hegemonically or overtly sourced from morals…
Life involves a series of limitations under which the seething mass of humanity toils. One of those limitations goes by the name of ‘Time’. And yet, as a species that has more collective knowledge than sense, it is interesting that we do not afford Time the treatment that it should deserve. Now you could undoubtedly find a number of reasons…