Passing the torch is an ancient tradition with a modern twist.

The origins of the traditional lighting of the torch lies in Ancient Greece where the fire was kept burning throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics to commemorate the memory of Prometheus, who as Greek mythology would have it, had stolen fire from the Greek God Zeus.

A ceremonial lighting of the torch was performed by eleven vestal virgins in ancient times at the Olympic site by kindling it by the pure rays of the sun, concentrated through a mirror.

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For all the scientists who are still pondering what made the dinosaurs extinct, here is one! Adapt now or miss the boat and become extinct!

One of my favourite quotes from William Shakespeare, goes like this :
There is a tide in the affairs of men,
which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat.
And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

 And here’s another – source unknown:
Ah, “All things come to those who wait”
I say these words to make me glad
But something answers soft and sad
It comes, but often comes too late!

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