Its all about time honey !!!

Life takes turns and mine took something that i had never envisaged. Everything seems so unreal. There is pressure and tension. One cant sleep. One cant enjoy without the thought of performance running circles in the head. The days of fun are over in a flash and then there is work, work and more work to support everything. Its like no where else. One has to think of performing and what not. Now that there is sometime there is time to think and write or rather simply write (as always)
The first time experiance is always the best and the most memorable. Be it the first time ballot or the job, there is always a first time and the memories are always fond and loving. It difficult to understand the why's or why nots :)
But then there is excitement and the wish to create a nice and friendly relationship with most. And over and above all of this, there is also the go getter nature. But I must also thank God for having given me the opportunity to work for a startup first up in life and be something. It teaches me the nuances of a small organisation and issues that people may be facing. Be it the simplest of the things or the most complicated one.
For me its all about time. When I came here, I was the first person in my batch to start work. People would be amazed how I managed both. Yes, I did miss the dinners and much more, but it was also the time that I couldnt spend with my friends.. But what could one do ?? As all things have a good side, so also did this. It made me know the people and the culture of iFAST. It has made me stronger and understand the company and the people.
Time, it teaches a lot. I am sure of the saying. Because, I am a different person as an MBA than I was, without it. It has made me a different person. I now am much more calm and patient. I have learnt that its HR skills that make a difference at the end of the day and nothing else. I am much more composed and it has taught how to push in more and more. How to stretch myself to the utmost limits and how to extrace the maximum out of myself. Its not something that one can dpo overnight. The friends there have taught me what perseverance and hardwork is. While some taught me how to be perfectionist, the rest taught me how to take blame, face a horde of people and also how to tackle people's ego. Its all about time. It teaches. It heals and like all the pain that I had in the first year vanished, so did the good memories end (Though they would never fade in my eyes) Be it the people shouting me out. Or be in the marine drive walks. Or those council work days or when we became the kings and fell down on our face. Its all a part of the game and part of the great big circle.
Well, today is the time when I am young and can take decisions on my own. Its time that i started thinking of the family and much more. I am really amazed at how time has flown by. The two years ended and lo !! I am back home already and that too with a job. I mean, imagine working from home is something very few have the privelege of.
As i see the things happening around me, all i can learn from it is that one has to be perfect in what one does and that once we commit we have to be sure to deliver. There is no replacement to committment. And over and above there is always the blessing of lady luck which never ditches. Not the hardworking and the brave.
Time is undoubtedly the best teacher one could have.
Enjoyed exercising my right to vote !!!

The key that fails

The key to success is not in the bouts of intelligence that one reflects. Not to forget the formula is not available in the market for sale. What counts is not the number of hours one would have to spend here, but the actual work that one does. But then the world hardly functions according to the simple logic right. If not normal human tendency to deviate doesnt affect, there is uncle murphy to chip in with the issues galore.
Lets get to the main question that plagues most work places today? "You are born with a golden spoon, they can go home on time man !! " says on the colleagues to me.
Some other would tell me," Oh yes, we are the only scapegoats man, the rest all have to simply point to my team" These are just a few examples of how cry babies dominate a large part of the work force. Why dont we come up? Why dont we succeed? Are these the answer to such questions? Actually yes, i think they are. The word 'duty' so very well understood by our freedom fighters seems to have been misplaced as the generations have gone by. Its impossible to understand where it all went wrong? How did the teachings go waste? Did the generations degenerate or was it simply something that just resulted as a result of complacency. Its nothing more than a culmination of effects to my mind. The psychology today simply takes that we are in shit, we are the troubled souls. We are the sad souls. 'fati padi hai', 'lagi padi hai bhai' are the terms that one would hear again and again irrespective of anything good that happens. Complacency and laziness rule the roost with no scope of improvement. Why should I work if i am paid even if dont? The only way out of the culture is to create an structure so huge and massive that a few clumsy petty souls dont really make a difference. Such that these people are not so great contributors to anything at all. But when one is working, such an attitude is something to learn not to do in life. Its a learning that teaches that its not the right way to be successful in life. Work while you have it and party when u dont have it. Its as simple as that. Its a disaster to the employee morale when he sits in office even when there is no work. I guess being married/un-married makes a difference to the attitude. For those un-married, there is no reason to go home right? Because, what would they do at home? Rather why not be in office. Why not be working/not working while one may think there is loads of work being done. Lets face it, this is one attitude which we have to fight and one attitude which would make us aware that we should never attain such a life.
Oh come on, there is life beyond office and that too when there is no reason to work. Lets read, lets sleep and lets get a life where one can grow. Lets not stay in the small hole where we stand, for tomorrow lies not in the small steps, but giant leaps that we have to take.
I know thats enough of crap man....