Chocklingam Mudaly,
my dad,
my greatest fan.
"Love is not a relationship.
It has nothing to do with anyone else.
It is a state of being.
Love is giving." [Osho]
He endured so much, throughout my life, so I could have a better life than he did.
And I did - even better than he imagined possible.
I cannot reciprocate enough to make up for what I received.
I honour him only by continually learning, and living my best life, feeling loved - one of the very few things he asked of me.
“It is not the critic who counts:
not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or
where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,
who strives valiantly,
who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming,
but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement,
and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
[Theodore Roosevelt]