Whatever Happened To Patience

Impatience has been around for a long time. There is nothing new in people losing their patience while stuck in traffic or waiting in line. But some experts believe that people are less patient today than in the past- and for reasons that might surprise you.

Some analysts suggest that in recent years many people are less patient because of technology. According to The gazette of Montreal, Canada, some researchers suggest that “digital technology, from cellphones to cameras to email to ipods, is changing our lives … The instant results we get from this technology have in turn increased our appetite for  instant gratification in other aspects of our lives

Is Happiness Good For You

Few aspirations are seen as more worthwhile and self-evidently desirable than the pursuit of happiness. These days, no one is against it. All of us can become happy, whether poor or rich, Christian or Muslim, conservative or libertarian. 

It is no wonder then that Freud - the father of psychoanalysis - is often regarded with suspicion. Categorically, he claimed that man is not designed for happiness. If happiness would fully come out and realise itself, he claimed, we would not be prepared for it. We simply wouldn't know what to do with it. Admittedly, this sounds rather disconcerting. Yet, there's a profound and important point here, one that is worth considering at a time when we are told, again and again, that happiness is the one true way to a meaningful life

Overcoming Amnesia

AMNESIA

This is the partial or complete loss of memory. Old age and mental disorders presents various types of amnesia with varying degrees. Names, words and everything a person has come across in life soon become forgotten and recollection almost an impossible task. Verbal amnesia is the most common form of amnesia where the patients forget names and words

SOLITUDE:You bend your head and wipe away a tear

                           SOLITUDE

When you have tidied all things for the night,

And while your thoughts are fading to their sleep,

You will pause a moment in the late firelight, too sorrowful to weep.

Africa: Crammed with the dying lore

I KNOW A WORLD

I know a world,

A wondrous world,

Sweet home of haunting songs

And rolling drums,

‘Tis  Africa.