Conditions and Diseases

  • Growing pain

    Tragedy and triumph seem to go hand in hand. Past pain could be paralysing yet addictive. Those who couldn’t get over it end up going back to it. Not for the broken experience but for the context where pain first occurred. When shattered, we threw the baby out with the bath water. In coming back, with time…

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  • Failure as prereq

    Maybe it’s just me. But people I associate with don’t seem to do well these days. Sectors once thrived are now wiped out: telecom, housing and to some extent, publishing. HR at HP has been busy. We learn from failure. By turning it into seed of success. Success and failure leave a different taste in…

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  • Technical issues can be dealt with, even if we have to farm it out. People problems, especially when it’s personal, and potentially embarrassing, tend to linger on, and if unresolved and cancerous. We simply wish they go away. And they will. When the people died. Those of us who stand one foot in tech and the…

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  • Trust again

    People with bad experiences go through various phases in recovery. Some need a lifetime. Others could trust again in no time. All depends how the mind plays tricks. If pain recedes deep into long-term memory, then it takes longer to process pain. Short or long-term memory, bad experiences stay. They surface on unsuspected occasion (Murphy’s Law).…

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  • I am not Italian. Yet I broke out in tears yesterday, at least three times. A medical check revealed that I had a minor stroke five years ago, which means I have lived on life extension without knowing it. Had I known this sooner, would I have lived my life differently? Or moving forward, what corrections must I make.…

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