The Grey Corner

I was in a book store looking for a book the other day, and I couldn’t find it as quickly as I hoped I would.. but something really caught my eyes there.. the volume of the self-help or self-development books available in the book shops or libraries.. I mean, darn..!! see how many books on that subject..!! thousands..!! and most of them really useless, if not all..! these kinds of books doesn’t really offer knowledge or science.. just “shoot your mouth off” kind of books with dazzling titles and burnished subjects, books like “how to be successful in…” or “the essentials of …” or “awaken the blah blah within…” or “how to..” or my favourite “50 or so ways to do such and such..” all these books target one group of people, and you can see this same group line up for a new book of the same subject.. EVERYTIME..! why..? My question is: If these books really help, why do you need to buy another one..? why do you keep looking and searching for solutions from these kinds of books.. when would ...

It came to me again. An unwelcomed visitor, late at dawn.. It was dark, too dark. And too quite..! A perfect theme for a good night sleep. Yet, something was not right. It felt like a deep breath before a plunge.. I was discussing some matters with my wife. We kept shortening our phrases as we were too tired to talk.. With every moment passed and at a snail's pace, we went quieter, calmer.. Going to sleep.. It was too quiet. so, naturally, the storm came..! I don’t know what it is, but last time, I desired something.. And I don’t know if it was fulfilled or not.. And this time, and just before closing my eyes, I was wondering what it would be like to know the future, to see a glimpse of what to come.. I don't know what happened, it didn't feel like a dream.. The stage was the same.. There was my wife, sleeping.. In the very room that we were in.. Nothing was different, except, I saw something wrong with her..! She was breathing heavily.. Sweating.. My heart started...

Here is something that is bugging me for a while. I write articles for my company's magazine for a while as a voluntary contribution. About many issues, not necessarily related to the line of work that my company does, but it's a column for interesting and irrelevant stuff that the magazine is trying to publish to give it a more open theme than the closed topic-limited theme the working environment offers. Some of them get published. And many others get edited and completely transformed into something it has nothing to do with the purpose of the article that I wrote! and for very ridiculous reasons that can be easily bypassed. "Too philosophical" or "too artistic" and sometimes " too political "..! The fear of criticism and lack of a strong sense of independence drives the Public Relations department to refuse such writings. Such writings could elevate the common sense that is not so common anymore, and perhaps could ignite the innovation within ...