Hey! Hey!! Hey!!! Been quite a while I've been here. Hmmmpph!!! I've been stretched beyond elastic limits these past months. Lol. So, the word SCAR has been in my thoughts for quite a while and i just had to write about it. SPOILER ALERT: it's rather short.    Life is hardly ever easy. There are and would almost always be events, things, happenings that turn to torturous memories. There would be events that would leave cuts, gashes and scars as a reminder of the experience and lessons learnt. Scars add beauty to our lives (pardon the paradox). Look beyond the cuts, see the healing process, appreciate the scars.    Just as engravings beautify pottery, scars beautify our years on earth. They add content to the years, the scars frame us. They shape and mold our experiences. They mark us to make us. Don't hide the scars. Appreciate them. They tell the story of your journey cos at times, falling apart is falling in place. Til' next time, 'Mina.

   Some time late last year, December to be precise, I stumbled upon this book. I had seen it two months earlier at a rather inopportune time to read it. So, I flipped through the pages, read the opinions others had about the book—those that usually lie within the first pages of the book. TBH, I picked the book to chase sleep away, it worked. That was how I began to read “ THE SOCIETY ” by MICHAEL PALMER . As it usually goes,let me give you an overview of the book. OVERVIEW    THE SOCIETY revolves essentially around the health/medical sector of the USA. It is set mainly in Boston, copyrighted 2004. There's Doctor Will Grant, a surgeon and father of two who misses the days of “raw” medical practice. Days when patients could get the attention that was required as soon as needed without the doctor having to go through and sign so much paperwork. Or go back and forth with the HMOs (Health Management Organizations) in order to broker “fair deals”. Days when patients could stay

 The post you are about to read was written some while back when I was in my "Socrates mood". Well, I was basically musing about the happenings around and viola!! This post was born. Not pre-planned but I think it turned out well, right? Lemme know when you are done with it.    It saddens my heart to see the society promoting that which shouldn't even be heard of in the first place. Things that ordinarily would be hidden and not spoken of in the earlier days are so easily & shamelessly broadcast nowadays. It leaves me wondering—as always—if the society consciously encourages these things or it has just become normal to we the people. Often times, we do things taking the society to heart, that's why we find ourselves considering what people would say or think when we're about to do certain things.    However, that feeling of the society being right many a time is fading away right before my eyes. Why won't it; when the society now—subtly—encourages acts