Mind Speaks
No Thanks – Gulf Today – Short Take – 15 June 2013
No thanks
During a recent visit to India, I happened to meet a group of hospital staff who work at the intensive care unit of a prominent hospital.
Always alert and attentive to take maximum care of the patients who arrive there, they all projected a high level of human kindness and positive attitude.
Patients arrive in all shapes and conditions of health, and the staff individually and as a group work day and night with a smile till those whom they attended get back to life and walk back to their home as normal as he or she can.
One day, a senior doctor who was in charge of the emergency and trauma unit told me that out of 10 patients who get discharged, we get a thank you from 1 or maximum 2. They do not even utter a word of appreciation or happiness on what they received all the time they were in. This specially when the majority of the patients are young, well-educated and working for high-end companies.
This is a question I myself ask several times these days with many recent incidents of heavy pay and free flow of money to jobs and sports derailing our modern youth. Is it that elevation to high paying jobs at a young age make our youth forget basic human values and social responsibilities?
Ramesh Menon
Gulf Today Dt. 15 June 2013
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Joyful Name – Gulf Today – Short Take Dt. 08 June 2013
What is in a name?
We all ask many times. I too have asked and wrote also on the same topic before. There is a lot. I have an uncle who is a retired central government employee and held a very senior position. A person committed to his work, he has never taken any bribe in his entire career either by cash or kind. He lives a modest life and is happy about the way it goes. Humorous and expressive in his thoughts, he is still called by his organisation for giving motivational speeches to the junior staff. One topic he speaks very often is about his own name. Like him, his father was also a respected person who was a headmaster of reputation in the region. He did the same with his eldest son. He never named him, till he was five or six years old. After thoroughly observing his first child and his characteristics and conducts, he named him Joy. True to his father’s wisdom, he remained joyous to him, and to all around, even during extreme situations in life. Looking at the current trend of naming a child before we get a glimpse of his nature, many times, our conviction on naming falls apart from the reality of the character the child grows in to become.
Ramesh Menon Short Take – Gulf Today, Saturday, 8th June 2013
Car Pooling Stand at Golden Blossom.
Car Pooling Stand at Golden Blossom.
With a view to minimise use of individual vehicles and to reduce travel cost and inconvenience, members of Golden Blossom Apartment community have initiated Car Pooling. The initiative is gaining momentum, as members share their travel schedules, route and timings and try and co-ordinate their individual travel requirement to be adjusted for combined travel at minimal cost, thus saving valuable energy and economic resources. Let more environmental friendly activities prosper in our community.
No Tobacco Day – 31 May
I wish to encourage abstinence from tobacco and to support people quitting smoking. I know already some of my friends who has taken this important decision, and strongly support them to achieve this important goal towards improving their health.
Smoking is the major cause of cancer mortality but because it is an acquired behavior − activities that people choose to do – smoking is the most preventable cause of death in our society
If you are a smoker, please set a quit smoking target:
· one day,
and then to
· one month,
and then to
· one year,
and then
· never again.
UP TO YOU!!!
I strongly encourage you to do so, IF YOU ARE A SMOKER.
Everything can be achieved one step at the time.
Best wishes in advance,
Ramesh Menon
31st May 2013
A friday routine
Its Friday and an opportunity to do Narayana Seva…
Summer is up here and getting hotter and hotter… Laban (butter milk), small water bottles, Fruits…There are many who work outside with very little facilities. If interest persists an opportunity is always there to participate. Do not hesitate to share a drop of kindness to those who deserve.
Scandals tarnish once-great sport
Scandals tarnish once-great sport
Giri Stores – Madras
A place I can never avoid when in Chennai – what was once a small one room shop is now transformed to a 3+1 storied well designed store to cater the needs of its traditional customers.
A huddle in progress
A huddle in progress………. did they also hear about the latest happening….. a final being played tomorrow… what a sorry state… wish they had formalised everything before – a bit more open allowing a free run and similar or more like WWF and similar events… Extremely sad to see what’s happening around. Glad that I thought about the Campaign PASS – Promote All Sports Simultaneously long back.
Koolakkadan Kuttikrishnan in a playful mood
Young Koolakkadan Kuttikrishnan, a growing temple elephant was in his own playful world at the Koodalmanikyam Temple premises recently. I had the opportunity to watch him and be with him and click him as much as I wanted. Aware of what I am doing, he started showing his tricks in a more playful mood.
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