Solitary Soul

SOCIAL BEINGS Mario D’Couto             Confucius once said, “Under the heavens, under the sky, there is but one family.” This pandemic may have brought some of us to the realization that the common denominator of human reality is life itself. If there is no life, all else is of no use,. This pandemic may have also brought some of us to the realization that money is not everything although most of us spend countless hours trying to earn more and for some reason, this may seem to be like an illusive goal, in the hope that the more we have of it, the more happier we would be, like   the donkey chasing the carrot. I will come to that later in this blogpost/article but the main thing that I would like to highlight is about what it means to be human and why relating and socializing with others matters more than we could imagine.             Aristotle once sai...

CAN WE CHANGE? Mario D’Couto              “Can we change?” this is a question that I ask myself at times. There is no doubt that most aspects of our lives are governed by the choices we make and yet sometimes there is the struggle that we face from time to time where we wish we could do that particular thing we are supposed to do but for some reason don’t do it. From maintaining consistency in one’s exercise routine to keeping to a diet, from desiring to quit something that we know is perhaps not good for us to actually implementing it, there are numerous examples that we can cite. I, for one, don’t claim to have any sort of mastery but I can say that I’m definitely on the road in trying to understand myself and life in general at a deeper level, striving to become a better version of myself each day.            Perhaps, it would be good to take a look at how the...

WHEN LIFE THROWS LEMONS AT YOU …………… WHAT DO YOU DO??? Mario D’Couto             The best investment that anyone can make is the investments in one’s self and on the flip side, while we may continue to find ourselves in the confinement of our homes, this may be a golden opportunity to invest in self – learning. A polymath is defined as a person with extraordinarily broad and comprehensive knowledge. They are the ones who are able to take the ideas from different streams and fields of knowledge and are able to make connections between two completely different fields of study which to the ordinary mind would seem unrelatable.   Some of the prominent people I can think of in this regard are Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton and so on but one person who I would like to elaborate a little more in detail in this blogpost is one whom you may have come across but perhaps not given much thought to and that man ...