Idyllic Thoughts

The glory of the past is an illusion. So is the glory of the present. --Edward Johnston. I always thought that it is human folly to look back at the 'glorious' past and rue the hardships of the present. We forget that the same past was once the hated-present which we wished would change into something better. Do we humans have a selective memory, storing all the good memories and deleting the bad ones, or rather creating a wall of forgetfulness to block them?

Life has no pit stops, only the inevitable destination.

While cleaning out old papers and magazines, got a Week magazine of 2009 which had stories on Kargil war. Felt proud that our government took the right (and bold) decisions at the right time, not bending to Big Brother's pressures; proud of our soldiers who lost their limbs, lives but not their true spirit in the face of a Stinger. Felt tears brim over at the pride of their parents. When will we learn to respect our soldiers instead of silver screen idols and heroes of the pitch?