Shon Mehta

                  This is story of my friend. He calls himself “Dood", as he doodles. My Mid life crises hit me hard. I was always loner by nature; never had many friends, few family members, mediocre career, not much money in the bank either. I realised that after 20 years of my career, I hadn't achieved much. There are not many people in the world who knew about me, even about my existence.  Whatever I was doing at my job was not going to make any difference to the world, or to anybody. If I die, nothing matters. I lost interest in doing things. It was dead end for me. Nothing made sense. I started getting suicidal thoughts. Whatever I did, my brain told me, “Why bother?" Many people tried to advise me. But it didn't matter. In my life, for the first time I didn't care about others' opinions. One day, I doodled something on paper. I realised that I like to doodle. So, I doodled more. I felt happy. I did my nine to five ...

O nce upon a time there was a king. He was a good person, but he had one problem. He would feel unhappy all the time. He would worry about a lot many things. Future of his kids, safety of his kingdom, and his own health. Because of his nature, the king could never enjoy anything. One day the king’s minister told him about the great sage, and his ability to help people with their problems.  Immediately the king visited the sage’s ashram. He told the sage about all his troubles. "Hey Wise One, help me with my problem. I am never happy, what should I do?" questioned the king with hopeful eyes. " Always keep in mind nothing is so important in life that you should worry about so much. Life is just emptiness. All this worry will push you towards your early death. So henceforth whenever you will be unhappy, keep saying "Nothing is so important that I should worry so much." advised the sage "This is such a easy thing to do" said the king to himself. The k...