Mind of my Stroked Brain

It is the time of the year when I get very affectionate emails from everyone... All my bank accounts, my insurance, my trading account, etc, etc. they are all very prompt. Another date on the calendar when they remember promptly is my date of birth. Every place where we can't avoid giving our date of birth. Honestly, after sometime , it's just a change of calendar. (We have not got the new calendar yet, so even that will not change for me tomorrow 🙂) Don't get me wrong, I have had my share of new year parties, get-togethers and fun. Have had fun in all of them. It's just the age and where I am currently, it feels a lot more like "what is the big deal". But, I do know it is a time and an occasion to celebrate, so - I don't mind the fun that comes with it. But seriously, I think I am getting overly paranoid these days seeing talks, documentaries, news, etc. Everything seems to point southwards for society and humanity in general. There are so many issues an...

  Before my stroke, I had enough and more work to do - both on the work front and home front. I had reasonably ok health, reasonably good eating habits, reasonably good physical activities. Money is not enough for anybody, but it was reasonably ok as well. The only thing I had very less of (almost none) was time! Free time specifically. I keep sharing video recommendations to many folks regularly - most of them,  long talk show formats (1½ - 2 hours sometimes). Very interesting and informative pieces in my opinion. In today's world filled with over information and disinformation, it is almost impossible to understand most things if we don't spend the time and either read and research ourselves (which is a very far shot) or spend time going through secondary sources who have done it for us and can present it in an unbiased way.  Without it, it is very easy in today's world to get biased, subscribe to misconceptions, get misled, manipulated, etc.  However, often I...