Musings from a Recliner

Musings from a   Recliner – 0530 hrs – 17 Feb 2019.                                                                        ~ Lally Virk. ‘Random thoughts’…………..!!! 'Die Empty' – Refuse to settle. Make your days count. “Embrace the importance of now, and refuse to allow the lull of comfort, fear, familiarity, and ego to prevent you from taking action on your ambitions. The cost of inaction is vast. Don’t go to your grave with your best work inside of you. Choose to 'die empty'.” The most valuable land in the world is not Manhattan, or Buckingham Palace or the gold mines of Africa or the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. The most valuable land in the world is the graveyard. In the graveyard are buried all the ‘unwritten novels, never launched businesses, un-reconciled relationships, unrealized dreams’ and all the other things that people thought, “I’ll get around that tomorrow….but sadly ran out of tomorrows”. “D

Musings from a ‘reclusive’ Recliner – 0500 hrs -29 Dec 2018                                                                                               ~ Lally Virk Every now and then I reflect on various aspects of life……and share my thoughts with the people I consider my ‘extended family’. This time, it’s on Life itself……🤔. Tragic Optimism - The Transience of Life. Yes……I do know that joys are portable, happiness is contagious but sorrows are your own. At the very outset, I would like to draw an analogy with something we are all very familiar and have grown up with, more so, us Alumni of the prestigious National Defence Academy. I refer to the famous ‘Cherry Blossom’. There is so much labour of love that goes into it’s application, the sweat, the spit & the polish, to finally get that perfect shine & glisten that we so gloriously adorn as we march out proudly ‘into the world’. One storm and, alas, it all falls apart as the ‘grim