One Third of my Life!

With experience comes perfection. But its nothing wrong to be imperfect. Trying to be perfect is always good. In pursuit of being perfect don't miss to try. This piece would have just missed from being an article but this thought made this possible.

I was looking for the right context and words to make this perfect. I was supposed to write it on 9th may, a week ago but I couldn't. And I thought I have missed it and had a hard feeling since it is important to me. "Better late than never" these words gave me the guts to write this though its late.  

It's about my life so it's important for me. Yes it's about one third of my life. There is nothing great to share but still i do. You may wonder, why i say there is nothing great. "Good is the enemy of Great". Great is defined by comparing it with something good or bad. Only then we will be able to find what's good or great. Everyday was great that I didn't have any day to compare and differentiate, what was good and what was great. I am talking about my days at my organization.

   

It's a decade now with my Organization. Oh really! I asked myself. The very first day when I joined here, I thought I should really serve long term - 5 years was my goal. Gradually after a couple of months I thought 3 years would be enough and I can switch to other companies. I used to wonder looking at my colleagues who had spent 5 yrs or 8 yrs with this wonderful Organization. I don't even remember how 3650 days passed by but each day was challenging and demanding. This keeps me moving. I have told many of my colleagues and friends that I'm gonna quit here or looking for change. Don't laugh, I might have told you as well.I have been telling this for past few years  but I haven’t quit. When I interospect, neither there is a push factor internally nor a pull factor externally. 

Some may say, our workplace is an extended family. But I would call it a family. May be I'm blessed or lucky to have people around. If I quote their name I need to attach an excel sheet and mention their name, sorry your name. Yes! You. Each and everyone who is reading this would have contributed directly or indirectly in these 10 yrs motivating me, guiding me, being with me and shaping me. 

I'm not exaggerating here. You may feel bored reading this. Of course, reading biography of a successful person would be interesting even if he drinks coffee, but a normal person's biography sorry story wouldn't be. Yet I should quote few things which I shouldn't miss. There were many ups and downs. But I cherish each and every moment. (I don't quote the names here for some reason) Have you played badminton with the Head of the function, not just one game but casually most of the days? Has your boss ever asked you, give me your details, let me find an alliance for you? Has your colleague become your friend accompanying you to look for alliances? Did your head become your friend planning trips with you? Head becomes care taker and stays with you in hospital when you are sick? Colleague invites you home for dinner, not once for formality but everyday when your parents were not at home? There is much more that i can't express. If all these happens with office colleagues, aren't they your family? 

Employees leave when they are less engaged. But for me, it happened without realization. I was engaged without any engagement programs. I should definitely mention here the world class gym facility, which is another pull factor that helps me wake up early in the morning and attracts me towards office. 

More importantly my friends,  my family,  my near and dear one who support me blindly in all my foolish activities, are the reason for whatever I have achieved. They are also the reason for the level of my madness. 

I feel grateful to all those who are with me and who were with me, for who I'm now.

Thank you for shaping me and making me!

I know you are more curious to know why I didn't mention the name of the Organization. If you know me you will know that as well.

Happy Reading! 

Look at the larger screen

I am sure you will agree with me on the statement, “He is always on phone”.  Either someone would have commented about you or you might have commented about someone else. It's common nowadays to come across this statement. In my case, I was told directly that I am always on phone.

Very true, I rather we, let me take the liberty of including you to be my partner in crime (Using phone always). If you are not eligible to be my partner, then this piece of blog is not for you. You can carry on with your work, but don’t look into the mobile now. Others, my partners, you can continue reading this. Yes this is for you.

Mobile has become a part of our body. Like our hands, legs. Why do we carry our mobile everywhere? Is it so important? The reason we might quote is "we might get important call". Every time? Is that true? Aren’t we deceiving ourselves? But why do we do that? What are we fiddling with our mobile every time? We unlock and check if we have received any messages once a while. May be hundreds of time in a day. Even more than that. (300+ times in my case)

There may be many reasons why we use mobile often. It could be to chat, play games, check social media, read news, talk, etc.

The base for this addiction towards mobile started  long back with me through Orkut. Not sure how many of you have actually heard of Orkut. A social media which was trending in 2005. Most of the 80’s kid will be knowing. Kids!!! I will call them kids since I am one among them and yes we are still kids. Increasing the count in the scrapbook was an achievement. There is no limit of the atrocities we had. We will be in the same room in the hostel yet we communicate through scrapbook of Orkut. “Machi lets go to Mess for dinner”.  Reminds me of my hostel days.

Then came the facebook. Achievement is based on the number of likes you receive. Don't you agree, we choose the best possible photograph to get the most number of likes. We fail to look at others how they are in the picture. Tag friends so that his or her friend will also likes the photo and increase the number of likes. My friend from next room shouted “Machi give one like, it will turn to 100”. 

And now its Instagram. Again likes and comments. Oh yes!!! The hashtags. More the hashtags more the reach. 

Whatsapp has become one of the major source of communication. Both officially as well as personal communication. It has made our life at ease, no doubt.  But it has also taken most of our time. Aren't we spending most of our time checking WhatsApp message and replying immediately! And status which we keep and looking back at who has viewed our status is a trending addiction now.

Some of us spend our time in Games either in mobile or in system. I am one of those who was addicted to Counter Strike, AOE, Clash of Clans, etc. Later somehow this addiction has changed. Recently I happened to play Ludo which easily took more than 3 hours for a game. Before I get addicted, I uninstalled. There are hundreds of such games which kills our time.

Let’s come back to the title, “Look at the larger screen”. It doesn’t mean avoiding only mobile but also Ipad or Laptop. Let's take time to look into the larger screen, “The world”. There are much more things in the world which you cannot find in the smaller screen. The reality. What we look into the mobile or internet is virtual. No doubt it helps us to gain knowledge easily but what’s the purpose of gaining knowledge if we don’t use it. There are certain important things in this world which doesn’t require knowledge. The hard truth is "Everyone expects it from others but not everyone gives it back". Its not that you don’t have but we have reasons. It’s the "Human Touch".

Looking into the smaller screen makes us blind. We become insensitive to what’s happening around. We fail to see what our closed ones need. It’s not always the materialistic thing which fulfills the need of your loved ones but is your time. Our usual excuse is, sorry what can I do!!! I don’t have enough time. Really? Have you ever noticed how much time are we spending on the little devices which kills away our time? Try installing some app which can track your mobile usage time. You will be surprised. Just give a try and  track. 

Spend those valuable time with your near and dear ones. You can try new things, you don’t know to cook? Still you can give a try. They will be surprised and happy when you cook. Give a try. Not necessarily cooking, you can help your parents / spouse in the household. Spend time with your kid, the most important thing. Kid doesn’t know to express but it matters a lot. You can spend time for yourself. Do what you always wanted to do but didn’t do because you didn’t have time. Read, Write, Paint, Join a course, anything which you couldn’t.

All these are not specific to our generation. It has equally affected the older generation as well as the future generation. Kids imitate us. We happily comment, “See how much talented the kid is”, she is able to unlock the mobile and using it”. Are we doing good to the kids? How many of us were wearing Specs at the age of 5? But now? Aren’t we the reason for their eye sight? How can the kid be responsible for it. Let me repeat, “Kids imitate us”. So let’s be careful looking into the smaller screen.

What next? Let's not miss what we were missing. Don’t miss it anymore. Don’t blame the time. It’s all yours and you can decide how you want to spend.

Just because I am writing about it doesn’t mean I have changed. This content is a proof that I haven’t changed completely. Even now I am writing in the smaller screen but I didn’t fail to look into the larger screen. Sometimes you need to look both the screens. Being my Crime partner you are also looking into the smaller screen. Yes you are and I made you to look into it. Now you can go ahead looking into the beauty of the larger screen. Much more than what you have thought of!!!

Worth looking into it!!

Happy Reading!!!