Oh to be alive

             The sky was a bright azure as she lay on her back, admiring the contrast created by the lush verdant foliage of the huge walnut tree that was in the farthest corner of the field.   Lost in the moment, she squinted through the gaps in the dense foliage, spotting an occasional red speck punctuating the frame and it always seemed to vanish faster than it had appeared. It fascinated her no end and sometimes she was so taken up by the sight that she slipped into a languid stupor, only to be rudely woken up by her name wafting in spurts through the valley.             This was her favourite position and safest haven; she waited eagerly every morning to escape to this retreat, for a while beneath this soothingly serene canopy. All of ten, she felt a strange tug to the spot and was often reprimanded by her mom for loitering off from the field where she and man...

Human nature is as dynamic as the world inhabited by these creatures. There is a constant tussle to fit in. Earlier it was more about brawn, then only brain and then brain and brawn. A perpetual struggle to perform, whether as a member of society, as it evolved, or whether to sustain the levels of excellence achieved, there was always the need to excel physically or mentally or even say emotionally. The underlying principle in most cases being how to make a niche and/or getting ahead. As long as these forays followed the norms set by society at that point of time, there was little disgruntlement, but very often there was a tweaking, a beckoning by the Devil as it were, to change the rules of the game to suit oneself and how! Since millennia Homo sapiens or human beings, have evolved, devolved and progressed from the days of hunter-gatherers to settlers, emerging perhaps winners only in some fields; chiseling, honing and creating masterpieces, sometimes manifest as entire civiliza...