Dilemma

For once in my life I could not decide. It may not even be possible however I still could not decide, not even in my dream world. I let things be and in this precise moment truly prayed the god “do what you think is best for me and I shall not interfere”.
They say the problem of life in not the lack of choices but the abundance of it. This incident taught me a very valuable lesson, a lesson everybody talked about, don’t wish for what you may not want. What if you get it?

I am the Best!

A few days back I posted this question on our main QnA forum.

“A colleague of mine is having trouble with his boss. As per him the boss is highly unplanned man which results in immense work pressure throughout the month on some or the other pending topic. For Ex. A hiring request of 50 no. was raised by Operation which he sat on for 1 week and then released it on a Friday stating that the number needs to be met by Wednesday. Then training had to be done in fast track mode as well to release people on time to Operations. The deptt is perpetually fire fighting on some or other issue like this. He tried talking, planning and even escalating however to no avail. Any ideas on how to handle this.”

Some of the answers I got ranged from “Its pressure that turns carbon in diamond”.
“so what the boss is not, he can be planned”
“have RIGHT ATTITUDE”
“think out of the box”
“be the solution and not problem”……etc. etc.

Agreed!
To be honest I have both received and said these words at every opportunity, sometimes even created opportunities to say these simply for the kick of it. Are we really being honest? Do we not ALL perpetually complain and crib about bosses and organizations.

A study has suggested that “People join organizations and leave managers”. A study! A statistical study. With average tenure falling to just a couple of years across industries and levels, whom are we kidding. Why are we shying away from issues like these which affects everybody. Is it seriously that impossible to look for a realistic solution.

Everybody believes that they are not as lucky as their bosses, in terms of reportees. I have even heard phrases like “imagine if everybody works like me”. Well I almost blurted out then the world would be quiet boring.

Its like saying so what the leader is bad, you can still be good. For that matter its poor leadership that germinates excellent fruits. Why are we not addressing the LEADERSHIP. Forget the reportee, or his incompetence. As leader Am I not supposed to plan for it? Am I not supposed to be a notch better? Why are we justifying and what are we justifying. Poor Leadership. Then why do we complain about Politicians. They are following exactly this principle-So what we are poor, you can still be excellent. For that matter we are creating pressure for making diamond out of you otherwise you are just a piece of carbon.
My point is why are we trying to convert every bit of carbon in diamond. When you are using carbon-KNOW IT. And more so accept it. The basic matter in everybody is carbon, Diamonds can simply be bought.

Pink Floyd

I went through a lot of trouble to incorporate Pink in the colour scheme. I don’t care what Kate Winslet’s daughter’s perception is about this colour. I knew about it long before Lilac and Mauve came about in being and I’m not about to change loyalties. What are those anyways?

Types...

My problem was that I was always too smart. Not smart enough to do something miraculous but not average either. The advantage of being me and types is that I can do almost everything a lot better than most and can do nothing the best possible way. I have an IQ of 145 and EQ scrapping the bottom of sea shells. I get terrible PMS which I’ll fight tooth and nail and will not accept. I’m ambitious with no ambition in particular. All I can do with internet is to check my 4 different e mail accounts and leave comments on peoples pictures on networking sites. That reminds me passing wise comments is a hobby and a passion I pursue passionately. It’s almost sad that there’s no vacancy that fits my talent – why am I telling you this, you seem the type types

Communityism

The advantage of most communities is the fact of belonging to that community. Alas! Being marwari I have no such consortium to depend on, at least not in the internet world. We are normally confused to be gujjus, which we are not. Or Jain, uff food is no problem in my state. We are the everybody knows but noone quiet knows us people. We marry within the community however almost never have friends who speak our language. We have no particular inclination or positive bias towards fellow Marus unlike the popular perception. Sometimes I almost feel drawn towards Madrasis (for me anything South of Maharashtra is Madras, states are for their personal distinction, I never sat down to define the difference between Agarwal to Khandelwal). We have no definite food and no particular festival. Our new year is when everybody else decides to celebrate it and yet somehow we managed to rake the most out of tourism. We are no intellectuals of any kind and yet the baniya at every corner of every state.

Pampered

I wish I could have some of it as well. A flower, a kiss, breakfast in the bed, boyfriend to pick you, drop you, birthdays and days like these. Someone for whom you are important no matter what else is going on - The only problem I don't wanna live with so many men

Smile from heaven

A few months back I was visiting a disc with friend. After a mad dash to everyone, we somehow made our way to the pub. While my friend decided to get us a drink, the rest of us took refuge in a relatively spacious corner. At a place like this you truly understand the term “relatively”. Anyways, as was everybody else, I was also blocking the path to nowhere for somebody else and was agitated by now to even agreed to be there. Just then someone tapped on my shoulder from behind, almost instinctively I raised my head and looked up. There it was, the most beautiful and peaceful smile I ever saw. It was not sheepish, nor pleading. It was just a plain, simple smile. For that brief moment everything disappeared, the noise, music, crowd, for the first time I experienced the feeling of “time stood still”. I don’t know when I gave way and he disappeared in the crowd, almost like evaporated. And I’m glad that he did, it felt so godly, or maybe it was Him.