#GLM

How often do we approach life without a clue of what we  want  to happen in our lives? That is our Careers, Family/Marriage, Education, Social Interactions, Religious orientation etc. I would say…hardly ever! What influences your decisions? Even for the indecisive, slow-thinking lot, we all have certain expectations of our lives and certain outcomes we will never settle for. We have been raised with many norms which have shaped our thinking and informed our pursuits therefore we subtly want to accomplish certain milestones based on our upbringing. For example, you will hardly find (not that it doesn’t happen) an individual pursue to become an entertainer or dancer if he comes from a family/background of Lawyers, Doctors and Professors. Does following in the path of our family influences mean we are living out the ‘perfect will of God’? Some of us are relatively ‘religious/spiritual’ and so study the Holy Books to gather some knowledge on what we should or should not becom

Hello peeps, I have always wondered what blogging was all about and why people would be interested in reading another person's thoughts or experiences but here I am starting a blog! But rather than making it a go to place for gossips or information, I want my blog to be a place of interactive discourse...like a sharing community where different views to different issues are brought to bare.  Now, I will set the scene or introduce the topic of discourse but I hope it stimulates your interest to make contributions and hopefully provide solutions to people that need them. I have traveled quite a bit...on holidays and for education and truly learnt that people are really diverse! Their thoughts, experiences, values and expectations completely alien from mine! I'm not saying this in the generic way people do, but in actual amazement and appreciation of the fact that we all do not and cannot interpret issues the same way!  There is actually a lot to learn from being ope