My gratefulness didn’t translate into action, even as images of desperation were beamed into my living room amid the pandemic. In the busy-ness of life, I hadn’t noticed — or perhaps hadn’t wanted to acknowledge — how much older and more fragile they had become. That was when the full import of the American writer Philip Roth’s words sunk in: “Old age isn’t a battle. Dwell on ways in which we can reach out to one another more effectively to extend help and hope. As Emily Dickinson wrote, “I dwell in possibility.”(The writer is co-founder at Founding Fuel & co-author of The Aadhaar Effect)

Source: Hindustan Times December 25, 2020 06:45 UTC