Reality bites  You know, sometimes reality strikes us harder
than the reality television. Some real life stories would make
you wonder if its really happening. I heard such a story last
week from a friend. A story that made me think where we are
headed.  It is about a troubled young man trapped between his
parents. His father is from a humble background and mother from
a wealthy family. Mother’s family had helped the father to start
a business and everything was fine until the father became a
drunkard. Eventually the business was gone and the family had to
struggle. So the mother, at 45, had to flee to London for a job
leaving her husband and son alone. She kept sending money back
but the father drank it all up. He would not go for a job or
take care of his son. The boy stopped going to college and began
wandering around the city. His regular ‘day’ was from dusk till
dawn.  The mother eventually stopped sending money when she
learned that the money was going to her husband’s booze fund.
This made things even