Anish Nadh’s Blog

I just finished a documentary called A man among wolves  . The ways of the wolves are quite interesting. They have a hierarchy that decides the roles each individual plays in the pack. This hierarchy also decides what piece of meat they can eat to the smallest detail. This documentary shows a man living with wolves to learn their habits and language to help integrate wolves into our ecosystem to reduce conflict.  What I found most interesting was the howls they made tj mark the territory, almost like singing into the heavens to claim your space! 

I cannot believe I wrote consistently for a year!! I never missed a day! Thanks to my friends Andy and Solomon, the only two readers of my blogs, they reminded me if I was late to make the post!  I am sure these are not literary masterpieces, I’m just seeing it as a way of expressing and keeping this habit in my routine. There is no wealth of information in my blogs. These contain issues that I’m conflicting with, staying organized, politics, business, health, family, wealth, poetry, stories and personal life. All I can say is “yay I did it and I’m gonna do some more”. 

Working consistently and diligently will yield results in the long run. Preparing your body every single day, will help you suffer less when illness strikes.  Take the Israel-Palestine war, I was quite surprised at the meticulous preparations that the Israelites had done in order to detonate the missiles mid air. They work hard on their defence system and education, research, agriculture. They started again, new. They bled less in war!! 

When you have a mindset to repeat things, say for eg, exercising. Just the act of repeating this every single day trains your brain muscles to make this a permanent part of your life. You feel good doing this. At the same time if you practice being lazy over and over again, your practice makes permanent! You have perfected the art of laziness.  Practise makes progress. Never settle!

 …Backyard! Yes, the caterpillars were all over my favorite  Agathi plant, it was quite disheartening to see it being infested! Wait! Infested? Poor caterpillars were there to just be, for a few days of their life cycle. So I decided to not kill them by feeding them to the birds nesting on my terrace garden. I was inspired by Vani Murthy, she carefully picked the Mormon caterpillars and put them in a container with some curry leaves. This way she was sharing the curry leaves with the butterflies while saving her curry leaf plant, because these caterpillars are quite some magicians! They can make a small plant disappear within days!  I had no idea what my caterpillars will become. What if they turned into moths? I tried feeding them hibiscus and mulberry leaves, but these voracious eaters only wanted the leaves from the Agathi.  I thought something was wrong with some  caterpillars. It’s stomach began to bulge, and I was afraid it would burst, I was expecting it to get into a cocoon the

My job requires me to point out imperfections of my students, to improve their repertoire. My role here is of a coach, training athletes of smaller muscles, to help them develop their virtuosity on their instruments.  I have seen their nimble hands at work, getting better day after day and to see how I cannot do those things as my age catches up with me is quite disheartening. This makes me wonder if I’m like the girl who can’t dance, who finds imperfections with the others, as in the Jewish proverb.  In the end, the intend matters. Why point out faults? Is it to uplift someone you are responsible for? Or is it your own insecurity? 

Things these days are not built to last. I grew up in my maternal joint family where my grandfather’s cot was solid teak and was inherited! It moved through generations and is said to be over 200 years old! That bed still stays put without any qualm.   The leg of my queen sized cot came off within a few years of use.  I’m seeing this trend in relationships and goals. Immediate gratification, then boredom and then to the next thing exciting. It was not meant to last they say.  This attitude leads to a lot of wasteful resources, energy and reflects further into a poor economy. Let’s decide to create exceptional work, strong bonds that last through generations to come!