It is too much. I want to get out of it. There is no break. I am divided. These expressions have a familiar ring. Take a guess why? Many would say it is easy because there is so much one can take. Workers are sick of spending more in the office with very little time for family. Wrong.

This guess would have been valid till 2019. In came Covid and work from home became an essential. Lo and behold after a while the same expressions were for too much time at home. All of a sudden the office seemed much more of a break than home.

The mental focus and peace became a casualty as people at home were hovering around 24/7. This is a clear indication that too much of anything is too much. Human beings are not made for doing the same thing in the same environment for too long.

The world has witnessed a sad saga of many miserable events. Covid itself was a horror. The war on Gaza, the financial crunch and now the burning of Palisades in Los Angeles. There is general discontent in the air. The moneyed people feel empty as they run after more money.

The unmoneyed people feel that their life is just a series of struggle and unhappiness. In such morose times what can be done to feel that your existence is more than just rushing after mundane things.

The inability to take joy out of life has become a big dilemma. There is a great race for more of this and more of that. This insanity exhausts people. Even when they get to their goals it becomes an anti -climax as the high they get gives way to a vacuum. The reason may be:

1- Pleasure vs happiness— The pursuit of happiness is mixed up with the obsession with........

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