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Thursday, June 18, 2009

ALTER EGO!!


It’s been two an a half years when I saw him first, standing quietly in a corner of a big showroom with two innocent twinkling eyes. Since then it has been a love & hate affair. He has always been there in my thick and thin. Almost like a helpless younger sibling, has been victim of my transgression.

Every time my self respect is violated by an eccentric client or is tossed at the whims of my boss (who always strive to make things perfect and situation ideal) he has provided vent to all the frustration. Quite often I have deliberately used him as an escape goat.

I never really have liked, but many a times I have left him standing in parching heat on the mercy of strangers, while myself sipping soft drinks in clients air conditioned chamber. But still we are companions. Be it a hot summer day, chilling winter or romantic autumn we spend maximum time together.

My busy schedule leaves me with no time to take care of him. Though he has never complained, these days he is not at all keeping well. Almost like an alter ego he too looks dull and has lost his shine.

But before it’s too late I want to change things around for me and my alter ego …my motorbike.

So here I pledge to service my mo bike twice a month and go jogging daily and like my boss create an ideal situation for both of us. This is not gona change the world but guess will make us both better equipped to face it.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Bruised Almighty!


Bruce there is no Almighty up there listening to your prayers.


"So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them." (Genesis 1:26-27)


And in the process he died. Yes God died the day we were born; just like a parent cell disintegrates into daughter cells. In the process the parent cell dies but the daughter cell are genetically identical to the parent cell, having the same DNA. We are made in his image and have the same genetic material and are as capable as he was or as he would have ever wanted his sons and daughters to be.


The God has shifted from matter to mind. His imprints or trace is there within you and me and through us he lives. God lives with us in the form of freewill. This freewill is the essence of God which makes human so strong spiritual being. It has the power to mould so called destiny.


We these days often see or here people around us killing in the name of God. What can be more disrespectful for creator to see his creations killing each other, that too in his name? Creator lives in his creations.


It is not almost insane to kill somebody who is just like you for someone you are not even sure about?


Our entire attempt to find God, define him by giving name & shape will be futile for he doesn’t exits. He died for your love.


Next time don’t just blame God when you bump into a tree, lose a job or ran out mobile balance; for dead are to be respected and not blamed. Evaluate your options available and ask your freewill what God would have done if been in your place.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Fantasies & Expectations


When I was a child I wanted to be a Taxi driver who take foreign tourist for a ride, earn good money and go places. There was this Mr. Bacchans’ movie released during that time in which was the flamboyant lifestyle of a Tonga wala. Suddenly I wanted to be a Tongawala. As I grew up to social expectations I swapped Tonga with a Taxi. Like every kid I too wanted to be an actor. The very idea of being an actor was so thrilling to me. If somehow I can be an actor I can be right up to everybody’s expectation. I can be a doctor in one movie and can make my father happy; in another can be an Engineer for mummy and so on. And it took quite a while for me to realize that being an actor and a successful at that need lot of sweat and commitment, probably more than I was ready for. My other fantasy of becoming a cricketer also faded in the same fashion when I came to know that the ball with which we play is not used in professional cricket but in lawn tennis.

When I grew up to an age where I was able to think logically, I analyzed all my fantasies. There was one thing common in all the career path I wanted to walk through, They were all individualistic and independent in nature. Amitabh as a Tongawala was an independent professional who didn’t required a big corporation behind him for support and so was the case with an actor, a doctor or a cricketer. They are all skilled individual who can survive independently.

and I am scanning all the feasible professional and unprofessional options : Teacher, Consultant, Writer. My fantasies are still yearning for independence of that of an Hermit , of that of an Rasta man, of that of an Fakir….