Sampath-Musings

FROM SAMPATH’S DESK: GOOD VIRTUES     None is born GREAT;   It's the quantum of SWEAT   You let out that decides the FEAT;   Avoiding DEFEAT;   Making your mood UPBEAT!       INDUSTRIOUSNESS should be the WATCHWORD;   KINDNESS the constant BUZZWORD;   LAZINESS is bad; don't bend BACKWARD;   RIGHTEOUSNESS is a good trait; keep your targets UPWARD;   HARMONIOUSNESS helps;  always surge FORWARD!       R.SAMPATH 8.7.2026 

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:   BICYCLE     A bicycle is almost within everyone's REACH;   It has a life lesson to TEACH;   If you operate, it runs; and if it's stopped, you lose BALANCE;   And it altogether stops its PERFORMANCE!         Don't miss to have your eyes on the BRAKE;   Otherwise, you will have some targets to BREAK;   It's a simple and cheap mode of TRANSPORT;   That helps you move to desired destinations with COMFORT and SUPPORT!         It's a poor man's CAR;   One can slowly and steadily go any FAR!   Why then WORRY;   Be FREE!         R.SAMPATH 6.7.2026

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:       CHILDREN PLAYING IN STREETS A REVISIT TO THE MEMORY LANE!       For children, while the second home is school, the third home is the STREET;   More often, they set their feet on it;   Noisy scenes of children at play are an aural and visual TREAT;   They considered their sweat as SWEET;   Their friendship became CONCRETE!         They learned all life ARTS;   Like teamwork, cooperation, coordination, adjustments, accommodative gestures, taking victory and defeat alike, and, above all, how to steal HEARTS;   Besides designing lifestyle smart CHARTS;   Some developed into STALWARTS!         Many became owners of rare TALENTS;   A few skill GIANTS;   On select FRONTS;   Resolved to go to the rescue of the needy's REQUIREMENTS!         ...

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:   REALITIES OF LIFE     Whatever is your NAME -   You must win in life GAME;   That can only earn FAME;   If you do that, it will be AWESOME!       EXISTENCE isn't a cakewalk;   SUBSISTENCE and sustenance can't be achieved without overcoming challenges;   COMPETENCE presupposes warding off cutthroat competition;   CONSISTENCE helps sail safely;   PERSISTENCE is the apt vehicle to your destination!       Success isn't a matter of RIGHT;   You can’t accomplish it by just showing your MIGHT;   It can’t be BOUGHT;   Nor is it a ball to be CAUGHT;   Reasoning out your failure is only an AFTERTHOUGHT!       CAPABILITY matters rather than personality;   RESPONSIBILITY and ACCOUNTABILITY are the keys;   INDEFATIGABILITY begets INCREDIBILITY;   INVINCI...

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:   DATA / STATISTICS       What's there in NUMBERS?   They represent facts that burn in the EMBERS,   Helping the PROBERS;   To be kept in your official CHAMBERS?         Is it a real or paper TIGER?   People are very EAGER   To know whether it's a game CHANGER?   Or is it capable of forewarning, wherever necessary, of an impending DANGER or DAMAGER?   Or the state of things heralds a good HARBINGER?       R.SAMPATH 29.6.2026

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:   ENJOY OTHERS ENJOYING       What else gives you more HAPPINESS;   Than to care for others' WELLNESS;   Again, more than the CLOSENESS   With friends, what counts is the FAITHFULNESS!       Let’s serve the HUMANITY acting in tandem with the COMMUNITY;   To make life easy for others is a kind of DIVINITY;   It’s the UNITY –   That gets you more DIGNITY!       Play a Good Samaritan’s role;   And prove noble traits are not DYING or DRYING;   To help others, let’s go FLYING;   Enjoy others ENJOYING!         R.SAMPATH 28.6.2026

  FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:                                      TREES       It's a sin to fell a TREE;   Rather, it should be left FREE;   Yes, all must AGREE;   And, none can dare to DISAGREE;   For every tree axed or uprooted, sow a multiple of saplings to BURGEON!         Tree groves attract clouds that bring us precious, copious RAIN;   Thereby enabling us to GAIN;   So, let’s not give them any undue PAIN;   Trees are nature's SHEEN;   Preciousness of shadow and shelter can well be gauged by a person getting scorched in the sweltering heat of the SUN!         They live longer and serve many a future human GENERATION;   Apart from shadow and shelter, they are home to  birds, which build their nests in the trees and live for any DURATION;   Without paying any rent, tax, etc., an...