The Maverick#59: Defying the Usual to Inspire & Connect

                                                      That morning I woke up early. It was dark outside and the morning silence lay heavy. Bleary eyed I peered closely at the bedside table. It was 4.30 am. The weather already wore the promise of yet another hot summer day of May. And then, a fluttering noise startled me !! I propped up in the bed and strained to look towards the source. There perching on the window sill and flipping around was my ‘angel’, the sweet little mischievous -Cuckoo. For a moment, I sat spellbound. Its been almost a year since I last saw her in my courtyard frantically trying to troop in her two chicks, barely a month old. too agile to sit around, but too fragile to cope up the world of their own. A flurry of thoughts woke me up nice and good. Outside the sky was beginning to pale as darkness slowly melted away. Mornin...

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you would be worth if you lost all your money"- -Bernard Meltzer Money matters!! Let me guess… One big worry that keeps raking your senses probably everyday is,have you made enough money to last you a lifetime? Are you doing enough to sail you through these tough times where Covid led recession has overwhelmed the future and your financial planning has caved in. Life is limping and prospects are not so cheery either. So long as I worked I often lost hold of my calculations and combinations as my finances and planning were always desperate to spin out of control no matter how carefully I went about reigning them in. Heart burns, dry throat and a palpitations all conspired and left me worried stiff. Frustration raged inside me, every time I rummaged the pages from my personal diary. Am I earning enough? Have I saved enough to last me a lifetime? What more could I do to ramp up my coffers?…. It was painful… obnoxious… stressful....