My Views and Ideas: Life and Parenting

Condition:- You bought a house today for 20 lakh,10 years from now if you sell the house you get 40 Lakh. Premise:- A box of thing which you could have bought today for 20 lakh, 10 years from now you will buy the same box for 50 lakh. The question:- Did you make a profit in selling the house? The condition and the premise are interrelated and in order to answer the question you have to relate both of them If you understand this question and can get the right answer you will understand the meaning of inflation which is a world wide situation now.  One can make the right decision while investing money on assets or just simple buying and selling things in day-to-day life. Answer:- You made a loss in selling your house. Why? you ask; It is because of inflation.In  layman's terms purchasing power of money is called inflation.The value of money has gone down and so purchasing power has also gone down. What you could have bought for 20 lakh 10 years ago  you can buy i...

After two years of long gap I am again going to India to see my aging parents.But this year things are not the same.I don't feel the happiness and the excitement at all.As the day of departure is coming closer ,my heart is sinking deeper and deeper. I have no excitement for searching for appropriate gifts for everyone, or buying cloths and shoes for our travel or making lists of things I have to buy from India.None of those.It feels like lifeless,listless, enthusiasm less .I wish the time stops and everything remain the same.I want the time to become still, because in this time I can still feel that my parents are alive,I can talk to them,I can talk to my mother when ever I want,day or night.She is going through memory loss but at least she remembers me and able to  recall every moment we have spent together. Being born as the youngest sibling can be so frustrating and mentally agonizing,this thought never crossed my mind.I was rather happy that I am the youngest.But now that a...