Like every other bad habit, biting your nails is easy to form but a tough one to stop.For many, nail biting is so well established that they barely realize they are doing it. In this germ-conscious world, no one wants to shake hands with a guy who’s just put his fingers in his mouth.

Walking is a form of exercise that has demonstrably helped individuals around the world to resist heart disease, strokes, diabetes and cancer.

There are no less than three gleaming, air-conditioned and ultra-modern gyms in my neighbourhood, and I have never set foot in any of them. However, as I walk past them in the crisp morning air, I see hard-working exercisers tone their bodies and muscles on expensive machinery and cannot help feeling happier that I am out in the open, among the birds and the newspaper vendors, the retired uncles and the teenage joggers.

There is something about being ‘alone’ together over 2000 metres above sea level, where the clouds kiss the peaks and vales, that does wonders for a couple, especially when on a lonely trail, with only the sounds of birds, and squirrels, and the wind whistling through the vertical limits- with all the time in the world and this part of it all to themselves. I first visited Kodaikanal fresh from my experience of Yercaud, slightly prejudiced, expecting it would be just another hill station. I could not be more mistaken. Truly the title ‘princess of hills’ is not a misnomer. I was still a student and the stay at my classmate Vivek’s house in the town, with its street houses, still rates high in memories of days bygone. The house itself was a subject of great interest and abject wonder, since from its rear emerged a perpetual spring.

Does anybody on this earth have the perfect answer, some people try to guess it right and some struggle to draw a sketch. Let’s try to understand what women think about the real beauty, may be actually their physical appearance or the inner strength and the purity of their heart. Research has shown that 92% of women want to change at least one aspect of their appearance, so that the world can think of them as beautiful. Some try to raise their self-esteem, so that they feel happy and look beautiful internally by talking about their inner strengths and the uniqueness of women.

In my Tarot practice I do a fair bit of bandaging of broken hearts. It is inevitable that people should meet with some rejection along the journey of love. Such rejection, and the pain it causes, do make for a time when a person is likely to seek some outside help. When repeated rejection has become a pattern in someone’s life, he or she comes to ask the anguished question, ‘Why does this always happen to me?