Workplace Tidbits

There are so many things that could disturb you at work. For no reason, you might be put down. People would willingly gang up against you. Though you might do your work right, people would say that you have done it all wrong and laugh at you. Automatically, your mind would be pushed to feel the heat and the first thing you would want to do is to retort.

No. Hold fort. Don't act at once. Think for a while. But don't give the enemy room to breach your tabernacle. It is always tough for all of us in these terse situations. Wherever we go, there are people to sting us with sharp words and frivolous accusations. 

Condescension is provocation worthy of retaliation. But before you react impulsively, think. There was a mentor I had at workplace who shared a wonderful piece of advice, "Isaac, think big. Get above the others." I will respect him for these words all my life. The first mantra to progressive thinking is to get above all the mundane pessimistic situations. It would do well if you could cut yourself off from people who worry much about trivial things.

One of my best buddies at work used to tell, "People, WORK!!! Stop fooling around with your ill-fed egos!! We're here to work!" Ego clashes are bound to happen everywhere you go. Politics has become much of an inevitability. You have to go through all these, no matter what. But when you do, don't allow all these to get into your nerves. Because these are things that would divert you from living your purpose.

'DGAD' - I had this written on my board and people couldn't understand what it meant. DGAD??.. Don't Give A Damn!!! If you wish not to entertain non-value added people, you should learn to apply dgad. Whatever may happen around you, don't bother at all. Get your focus right! Stop wasting your time talking about others. Spend more time discussing what you have intended to do to achieve your goals. Brainstorm with reasonable people on reasonable matters. I don't mean that you should quit having  lighter moments altogether. It is no harm to have a few friends. Build your bandwagon of like-minded people. But never associate yourself with anyone. Form your own persona.

These are just tidbits. Try to follow this, if it is applicable to the situation you are in. Despite all this, if you still face problems, no other go. You have to bend your knees. Pray. There is no problem too big, God cannot solve. There is no mountain too tall, He cannot move.

The Embrace

It's been so long since anyone embraced me, sulked the girl and broke into instant tears. She had been hugged multiple times by multiple men and women, but no, she had never really felt any warmth in any of that. Her body had broken into sensuous tickles at times, but no, not that touch that would mean, I will always be with you. She is what anyone with a middle class morality would rate - slut, what the rich would say - classy, and what the minds of both the liberals and the conservatives would call in unison - sexy!

Yes, she isn't the virgin, the non-virgins would dream of marrying. She isn't the one who anyone would miss a chance to make a pass at. She smiles, yet she cries. She talks, and is still silent. She dreams, but in vain. She's judged from every angle of flawed perception. Yet, she wouldn't know any of it, or pretends not to know what others would think of her. Doubly yes, she is vulnerable by all means.

How rude! Men who do not have the guts to even talk to her, imagine lewd things about her in the privacy of their wicked minds, but act just the opposite way putting on a fake holy outward gesture to openly tarnish her image. That doesn't mean men who talk to her are real saintly! The logic doesn't work one bit that way! The girl is always put in the awkward 'Head-I-win;Tail-You-Lose' position. Who is really promiscuous? The girl or the minds of these men?? What is done within four walls and in the absence of others is not wrong at all, they believe! A day will soon come when all these sick low-lives will wail for all the wrongs they did covertly and all the people they wronged overtly!

Coming back to the she. If you really have the b*lls to count yourself a man, I pose this challenge to you. Instead of quickly judging her or instead of using the opportunity to make the most out of her vulnerability, why wouldn't you show her some love!! Dont get me wrong. By love, I do not mean falling in love. Because it is not for the tight pressing hugs and a few long kisses on her lips and down, she yearns!!! She longs for a genuine embrace. I am not saying you should carry a I-am-a-good-boy pretence and go on a hugging spree with the several women your near-society has portrayed in bad light and call what you do 'Embrace'. I-am-a-good-boy hug!!! - No No No, it is not possible at all - you know it, i know it, the world knows it; that's biology. Let your embrace be found with no blemish. Be assertive to her, appreciate the good in her and encourage her efforts to overcome her mistakes. That would be the best embrace you can think of giving anyone. She needs love and just that.