The Gift - Kochouseph Chittilappilly

 The Gift by  Kochouseph Chittilappilly was 69 of 2020. 

This book was with me since quite some time. Having worked at Veegaland, was fortunate to see how he used to write the editorial for the in-house magazine v and we and later as per suggestion from Ravikumar sir compiled it into a book called Practical Wisdom.  Having known the story of the gift  delayed reading it but for some reason I just took it and read through it in half a day.

 The gift is a book on humanity.

It is a book that restores faith in the power of good at a time when indiscriminate greed and violence both in thought and deed has overtaken people and few have the time to pause and reflect.  The gift is also a book on what business leadership should be all about in a country like India. Business leaders are also social leaders as well and they must see the purpose of Business and the power of wealth as turners of the wheel of wellbeing for all people KC is a shining example of that

In life we do not know how it will all end we can only hope for the best. Little thought can sometimes end up changing our entire lives. One thought could make us or break us. It could raise us or raze us down. That's the power of thought. Some say thoughts become tangible ,   they earn a power on their own to grow within us. Decisions come from ideas. Actions follow.

We all come with varying capacities be it physically and mentally . Yet we try to draw the best out of ourselves so we can be at par with everyone.  For some, their body organs might be weak or non functional. For others, disorders of body functions might trouble them, for some it could be learning disability of various degree but life arranges us.

In life isn't it true that we don't get answer to a lot of questions ? Why we are born in  the shape, size and colour ? why do we have the parents we have? Location we chose we will never know for sure we might know more on the what's and how's of life but not many of those why's will be answered.

Life is a matter of picking and choosing what you want.