As time flies,
people around you tend to know your strengths and weaknesses. While some try
and help you to capitalize on your strengths, some try to take advantage of
your weaknesses. The motive of the efforts can be pretty simple to understand with
the kind of response you get. Similar experiences I had to have so as to get
closer to the impossible truth; or do I say a possible myth?
Here’s the story.
Everyone wants to move up in life. That’s no mystery. But one thing we all
expect is, moving up with a set of principles which can be an example for
everyone else to follow. Well, sometimes we end up doing a mediocre job where
you oscillate between your home and office and react to nothing on the way, or
we do something we love to do and enjoy what we do all the day. We all start
afresh at some point. When you are born and raised with principles, you live up
to it, look up to it, and seek for it wherever you go. If you don’t find it,
you don’t belong there. At work, you always have a role model whom you
religiously follow. You want to be that person when you grow old. Rather, you’d
want your role model to retire and you’d takeover that place. That’s the
attitude, the idea of growth you think you would have. Unfortunately, not most
of us get to live our dreams.
In the area of
business, there’s nothing called as a “One man army.” Either physically or
figuratively, there are people, who inspire you, guide you, love you, despise
you, help you and most dreadfully, screw you. There are two types of people in
all; those who want to grow by being each others’ support, and those who want
to demean others and rise up. People with principles always like the former
approach. They are the ones who are not in a hurry to be filthy rich. Being
recognized and respected is their ultimate purpose in life, albeit their ‘not-so-glorious’
lifestyle. The latter approach is a favourite for those who know how to use
people rather than taking their help. That’s the thin line of differentiation
they fail to see and cross the boundaries of self-restraints. They seem to be
adventurous, taking risks and making big bucks; they eventually either end up
being lampooned by losers on the way, or ignore the ones who try to stop them
from being doomed.
Why do we need to
grow together? Is that really necessary? I think I am good all alone. I can
perform better by myself. And many more thoughts we come across when we think
we’re better off ourselves, but we still need a consolidated mentorship. As the
youth of this turbulent generation, I always feel I need to learn a lot from
the medieval principles. In the era where we still celebrate when our best
friend fails in the exams, is a good sign that we are still optimistic. But
looking at the bigger picture, we are leaving an unpredictable legacy behind.
The joy of honest togetherness is missing vehemently, not just in reality of
personal life, but in professional life as well. As brothers and sisters, we
see a family in friends (excluding the flirtatious ones) and we see a family in
professional life too. Whom do you trust and whom you do not? Who do you think
will let you grow along with them and who do you think will grow by not letting
you to? Some questions still hang in the balance of poetic justice. Either let karma
deliver it for you, or dare give up your scrupulous life and steal the justice
in dire desperation. We are superheroes when it comes to being a sole
performer. But, when times comes to be a “Justice League”, or “The Avengers” we
all have undeniable ego issues. If that is erased, we can definitely “Save the
world” from aliens or being alienated in our own world.
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