A Good Life

The Phase-Life graph is a constantly moving line from birth to death. The moving tip is your current situation and as it moves it charts a graph called the Phase-Life Graph. The centre line, the X axis, is the neutral line. Routine life moves on this line. As you have happy experiences the point moves up, on the Y axis and as you experience unhappy times it moved down below the neutral line on the Y axis. It keeps moving up and down to different levels depending on the intensity of each experience. There are a few things to understand here. Firstly this graph will be personal to each and every individual. No two people will have the same graph because no two people will feel the same way about the same experiences. Going for a movie may be an experience on the neutral line for me but would be on the happy side, that is above the neutral line, for others. So this graph has to be personal. In our modern urban life, it's witnessed that most people live below or on the neutral l...

Joe had a passion for rock climbing. He was popular as the best climber in his town and had scaled various peaks in the last few years. In fact his love for rock climbing earned him the nickname of Rocky!! He was also a thinker and philosopher, he would often spent his time in introspection and contemplation and in long discussions with other wise men about life and it's meaning. Like most of us he too wanted life to be smooth. Who wouldn't like a stable and smooth life? Often he would find people, and himself too, cribbing about the various little problems in life. "Nothing ever goes smooth does it?", he thought to himself one day as he sat in his thoughtful mood, sipping a cup of hot coffee on a cool winter day . If there's health, there's illness. If there's job, there's office politics. If there's family, there are friction. If there are friends, there is misunderstanding and lack of time. If there's love there is jealousy. Nothing comes...