April 1st is often seen as a day of jokes, but I see it differently. I don’t celebrate it as a “fool’s day”; I see it as a #beginning_with_responsibility. The start of the financial year is a moment for reflection and #accountability. It is also Odisha Foundation Day (Utkal Divas); a #reminder of identity and purpose. For me, this day is about #intention, #not_illusion
हज़ारों साल नर्गिस अपनी बे-नूरी पे रोती है
बड़ी मुश्किल से होता है चमन में दीदावर पैदा
:अल्लामाइक़बाल
गिरा दिया है तो साहिल पे इंतिज़ार न कर
अगर वो डूब गया है तो दूर निकलेगा
:अमीरक़ज़लबाश
A quotation from Wallace Stegner
You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone when salt is poured on him. And right up to the moment when you find yourself dissolving into foam you can still believe you are doing fine.Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) American novelist
Crossing to Safety, ch. 13 (1987)
More about this quote: wist.info/stegner-wallace/3708…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wallacestegner #expectations #intention #plan #planning #scheme

You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and intentions. But within a single afternoon, within hours or minutes, everything you plan and everything you have fought to make yourself can be undone as a slug is undone…