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When you are under pressure and if there are butterflies in your stomach, never let them fly all over the place. Make them fly in formation.
Your journey is not for the fainthearted.
When you trail, you must fight and survive.
Draw from your bucket of amazing experiences.
Keep your focus on what you are striving for.
Though you know very well you could be outwitted and outfought, keep those distracting thoughts off.
Try your best. Fight with all your heart.
Believe you can do it.
Asian Games. Nagoya. 2026. Badminton.
Three points. It separated P.V.Sindhu from what could have been her third Assian games Medal. It is very difficult for her to shake them off. Sindhu lost in the quarter final to China's Chen Yufei, 21-11, 18-21, 10-21.
Sindhu says, "My Asian Games campaign is over. I am hurting. Three points from closing out the match. I keep coming to those three points."
"I had my chance. Letting it slip hurts."
"My team and I are working on closing those three moments. We'll fix it."
The circumstances make the defeat hard to swallow.
"Three matches in 18 hours. Back at 3 am. Out again at 8.30 am. It took a toll. But after a camp that gave me every reason to believe, I wanted so much more."
"One painful result cannot define a journey that means so much."
"I am hurting. That's okay. I am glad it still means enough to hurt this much. I still want this."
"That feeling keeps me going.'
This is the truth. Fail or Lose, it hurts. But it keeps you going.
This is the greatest lesson we can have in our lives. Go back to the drawing board. Unmindful of failures we have to keep going. It takes us to our goal.
Malayalis leaving Kerala is not new. Most of those leaving are Christians. That will one day make us a micro-minority here.
I asked an educationist about it. His answer stayed with me.
"Because Jesus's vision of the Kingdom of God is a universal vision, and therefore Christians tend to feel more at home wherever they go, even the remotest parts of the globe, as compared to other communities."
Never give up because of rejection.
BEWARE
UNSOLICITED CALLS PURPORTED TO BE FROM PRAYER GROUPS
Recently I have been receiving unsolicited calls from two phone numbers. A lady tells me on all occasions that it was from a prayer group. She enquired if I had any matters or issues that required their prayer support.
My response on all occasions had been there was nothing.
Then she asked me whether I was a Christian.
I replied it was none of their business
Yesterday the person called again and said it was from a prayer group.
I asked, what they wanted.
She said, "Chetta (elder brother), we want nothing from you."
She said she wanted to convey a munnariyippu (warning)
I replied I was disinterested.
I blocked the number
There was another call today. She said it was from a prayer group.
She said it was to enquire if there were any matters for prayer support.
I asked where this call was from
She said, "Chetta, it is from Keralam."
I replied she should stop bothering me
I blocked that number too
They had at once sent a WhatsApp voice message from the first number I had blocked already
I didn't open it. Blocked it again
I checked True Caller
The first number 7902501949 name given is LUXY JOHN
The second number 9495548254 name given is LUXY LUXY
I have filed a complaint through Sanchar Saathi Portal.
They have acknowledged it
When Dr. Thomas Varghese learned how Becka Jill Konnayil's father had survived a massive heart attcak he posted:
Lucky for her, her father survived. A few months back one of our church members had syncope and was pulseless. I detected it and the physician started CPR, he still comes to church!
It’s a part of life some we can save, some we lose and a part of us dies with them.
It’s both horrible and immensely satisfying…. We just pray the latter comes in often.
Amy Wrzesniewski and Jane Duttonn, colleagues of Adam Grant, had found that in every line of work, there were people who became active architects of their own jobs.They rethink their roles through job crafting - changing their daily actions to better fit their values, interests and skills. One of the places Amy and Jane studied job crafting was in the University of Michigan health care system.
If you visited a certain floor of the hospital, it wouldn't be long before cancer patients told you how grateful they were for Candice Walker. Her mission was not only to protect their fragile immune systems - it was also to care for their fragile emotions. She called the chemotherapy centre, the House of Hope.
Candice was often the first one to console families when their loved ones were through treatment. She showed up with bagels and coffee. She would make patients laugh by telling stories about her cats drinking her milk or showing them that she had accidentally put on one brown sock and one blue sock. One day she saw a patient on the floor of an elevator writhing in pain and the staff members nearby weren't sure what to do. Candice immediately took charge, rushed the woman into a wheelchair and took her up in the elevator for urgent treatment. The patient later called her, 'my saviour.'
Candice Walker wasn't a doctor or a nurse. She wasn't a social worker.either. She was a custodian. Her official job was to keep the cancer centre clean.
Candice and her fellow custodians were all hired to do the same job. But some of them ended up rethinking their roles. One cleaner on a long term intensive care unit took it upon herself to regularly rearrange the paintings on the walls, hoping the change of scenery might spark some awareness among patients in comas.
When asked about, she said, "No, it's not part of my job, but it's a part of me."
