AFVOA Newsletter May 2020

Section 3 - Memoirs Newsletter No. 1 / 2020 P a g e 72 | 101 14 Improvement Capt S Narayanan Genre: Reflections t all started one day in my office when a writer called on me to open an account in my Bank (my second career). I asked him, Sir I always get ideas and thoughts, but it dies down. Sometimes I forget. For e.g. when I go for a morning walk some ideas springs into my mind but by the time, I finish my breakfast it is all over. How people become writers? That was my question to him. His answer was quite simple. Just you start from anything abruptly. There is nothing like starting. Then I did the same. To my surprise all my articles appeared-in local magazines. To my surprise there were some positive comments on the letters to the editor column of the magazine. My friends, relatives and colleagues too found them interesting. That was in the year 2004. Your communication kindled my desire to write again. When God created living thing there was a constant improvement. From monkey to Ape to human beings. Even parts like Appendices vanished. Take the human world, the Wright brothers flying machines to Boeings. Are we not improving everything constantly? Some call it a “Change”. Take any field, there is a constant thrive for improvement. The gadgets we use have made the old ones obsolete. So today must be an improvement from yesterday. It might have taken billions of years for any big change. But it is happening daily. Every moment is improvement from the previous moment. We fail to notice. Only big changes are noticed. Please start observing in each walks of life what the improvement is. You will start observing without fail. Let it be anything. Relationship, career, technology, standards. Even death is a replacement of lives with young ones for improvement of species. A day may come when couple visit the laboratory at suggested intervals, deposit their Eggs and Sperms and return to collect their offspring’s Food for thought I