Mind your language

Mind your language

February 2016

Dear Reader,

One of the ways we are ongoingly making or breaking our lives is by what we say. Our words and the space we are coming from when we say them, become our behaviour, harden into habits, and eventually manifest as our destiny. So if we need to see how carefully or carelessly we use words, we only have to look at the destiny we have created for ourselves. Fortunately, what we have made, we can also unmake. By enhancing our consciousness levels, by using words judiciously, by steering clear of certain word traps, we can in time, forge a better future for ourselves. Our lead story tells you how. As focus on the larger good become more and more overt in society, practices are going to shift and change to align with the philosophy. Already this is happening. Take eco-tourism for instance. Tourism has been one of the scourges of the modern world, ravaging and destroying pristine landscapes across the world, in order to build fancy hotels and packaged pleasures for the pampered Western tourist. In contrast, eco-tourism expects the traveller to tread respectfully on the terrain, to adapt to the host domain’s ways of living, and leave no waste behind. Eco tourism is all about embracing diversity instead of cloning the comforts of home. Eco-tourism drinks with gusto at the well of experience, instead of viewing all things new through the tinted shades of comfort. We have an article on the subject. We also have an article on the Pareto Principle which says that if we work on 20 per cent of the root causes of our issues, we will solve 80 per cent of the problems we face. Enjoy the month which also heralds spring in the northern parts of the country.