Even though I believe one should live in the present and plan for the future, and that past should be looked back as a ‘lesson learnt’ experience, I still sometimes find myself falling into the ‘what-if’ trap. This republic day made me ponder what if I was born before independence? (I know it was not independence day but thoughts are like wild horses. Who can control them?) Would I have been a brave patriot or a coward sucking up to the British? It is easy to say “Oh, most definitely the former!” but then who knows the answers to what-ifs. [Read on…]