Ode to Counselling

In this fast – paced world

Modernisation and technology

Have all given us more stress;

There are more wants now

Than ever before in history:

Our means lag far behind though!

Modern conveniences and mass appeals

Globalisation and a smaller world

Have taken their toll on us all

Burning us, from all the burdens

We set upon ourselves in our mundane lives.

Philosophy created the arts and the sciences

Has Man’s problems created a new science or an art?

There is art in the science 

And science in the art of counselling;

Whichever way we look at it

Counselling is here to stay,

As a balm to soothe our problems away

Freeing one from the fetters of disillusionment

To show us the light at the end of the tunnel.

 

-Siva Mahendran

13thSeptember 2004