Daily Life

All our startups claim to be customer-centric or have a human-centered approach, yet most of them make news headlines for the monetary valuation or capital infusion. I hardly come across a headline that states "A startup that has had a positive impact on xxx millions lives" and treat this factor as a success of a business. We closely-knit everything to monetary value most of the time and ignore the human value for what a new business or startup stands for. We tend to point success only towards the monetary valuation of the business. It's time we start evaluating businesses with the impact it creates for us rather than a tight focus on the monetary valuations alone.

We all often say that age is just a number but when we learn of someone's death, we instantaneously ask the question how old the person was?  And if the answer is beyond 80 years, we happily say 'oh they lived their lives. It was time to pass on.' Why do we easily connect death with age while to live we refer to it as 'just a damn number'? Is it not possible that a 90-year-old may aspire to live more and is doing something meaningful for themselves? Or a 19-year-old could just be tired of life and dragged into a mental condition where death may be a relief point or they live in a conscious coma for the next decade or lifetime?  Death is an equal partner of life, another side of the coin. It should not matter how short or long we live but how well we live and how long is our fire burning or hope to spring within.