Dr. Bharat Desai's Blog

Stress is pressure or worry resulting from mental or physical distress or difficult circumstances. For all the intelligent, sincere and responsible individuals, stress is an outcome of one’s activity. It has to be there. All one needs is to see it as essential force for progress/development and not more than that. One has to be a distant viewer-observer or witness to the said situation and not part of it. How to get rid of it ?

An obituary is a note published in the newspaper about someone's death. A big number of people read that first, and many times only read that much. They are often happy knowing that their equal-aged person is dead and oneself is not dead... alive! Some of them would want to relive the past with the dead person and again be satisfied thinking: S/he is no more, but I being a greater one, is still alive! The pleasure is present in the death of others without any sorrow/sadness of the event. What a tragedy!

If spending money makes you angry, irritable, tense or unhappy, it is a sign showing your income is less than your own capacity to earn.You know your earning level, but your attempts need more sincerity and planning.

When one writes post/comment to express one's views on Facebook, one is addressing a big number of audience - friends, colleagues and others. So it is prudent to be careful about spelling, grammar and punctuations or it will look insulting your friends. It will show as if you are attending party without proper make-up!

After voluntary retirement as Government Medical Officer, my wife Dr Bhavana (Devyani) wanted to have a vacation and I joined her. The long break of 14 days (2 weeks) was starting on date 9th March 2011 and ending on 23rd March 2011. We planned to stay at Rahul’s (our son) residence at Bangalore and return to Bilimora. Vacation - is stopping the continuous job/work and retire at some place at leisure. We know vacation is a change of activity and we did that. It is a recess, say a break or temporary cessation of routine work. Is vacation necessary ?

Ask yourself. " What do I really want? " Take a piece of paper, a pencil and an eraser. Jot down, from your mind, 10 things that you want from your life (things that will make you feel happy). For example, things like: Happiness and peace of mind Being loved and well-being Good health Lots of money Loving spouse/children and their happiness Power and position in job/profession Nice house Lovely holidays Good education Good workplace

My observations at Brigade Road, M G Road, Church Street, K Kamraj Street and Commercial Street on 15-03-2011 between 4 and 9 PM: Youth are more than 90% They wear Jeans-Tshirt and shoes (both sex). 90% are coupled with opposite sex partner - with hand on the back or other partner's hand. Males have big forehead, while females have small. They love to smoke a cigarette. Most of them are busy talking on mobile. They would love using credit/debit card more than cash.