Yes. It has been a while since my last post. I started my
professional blog and was busy with that. Now that I have taken a hiatus from
it, time is back again to share my thoughts and experiences.
Change has been a constant companion of my life, probably
all of our lives. Whether we wish for it or not, change is constant.
I used to always try and classify changes as good and bad.
The more I try to analyze them; they fell in the latter bracket. And then I
started experimenting it, I tried to find at least one positive from the
change. Surprisingly, I was successful and found many. Now, I believe that it's
in one's perception of analyzing a change to be good or bad and we are right in
whatever our conclusion is!
What if the change hurts us? (As it happened with me
yesterday)
I was fortunate enough to come across this in Holy Bible.
“Have no fear, for I
am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give
you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your
support”.
Isaiah-
41.10
When things go out of hand or when there is nothing that we
can do, all that we can do is believe in faith and hope for good.
This will definitely help.
I want to share two incidents which made me believe in faith
and taking change as a positive thing in life.
Incident 1:
This incident happened 3 years ago. It was during one of my
treks, everything seemed well in the beginning. As the day progressed,
unforeseen events took place. Everything changed dramatically, we lost our way
back, a few lost hope of returning back and others were just trying to decipher
the incidents happening around us. I was somewhere in the middle of the group
and had mixed emotions. I knew there was nothing that I could do apart from
being positive and hoping for good. It happened such that I became more and
more restless and went ahead of the group.
I was expecting this to be just another normal trail but it
was confusing when we saw many such trails leading to nowhere. One had to just
believe in intuition rather than logic. The more we tried to logically conclude
a particular path, we failed miserably. I badly wanted to somehow find a way
back. I broke from the group and started moving aggressively to find a clue/ a
lead back. As I moved ahead and ran a few paces, I abruptly stopped. I have no
idea why I stopped. I took a couple of steps forward and saw a steep
inclination, I knew I was saved. I looked back to see if there was any one
behind me, no one was there. Had I fallen, probably no one would have ever
known.
My friends came there a couple of minutes later.
I didn't tell them of the incident as it would have brought
the morale down which was already low in the group. In the next few minutes, we
found a lead back to base and were happy to have made it.
Even now, if I try to think back what made me stop, I don't
have an answer but just the feeling that there must have been a power which saved me and
this is the faith I still in believe in.
Incident 2:
Sometimes, we tend to think that we must stay the person we
are and should not change for the sake of others. A deeper analysis into this
throws a different light. We are not what we really think we are. It is just an
image of what we constantly think of ourselves to be. The way we interact with different people is very different; we try to reflect a part of that person
to him/her. This way, we reflect the mindset of others and forget the fact
that our interests could be something else.
There is one person who used to annoy me a lot. The funny
thing is that he doesn't realize that he's annoying me. As the days progressed,
he tried to occupy my personal space and started dictating things to me. I
couldn't ignore him as he turned out to be my new supervisor. The more I tried
to explain him the fact that I needed some time alone to complete my task, the
more he tried to interfere in my work. Well, of course I tried but couldn't
take any positives from this. This was a peculiar problem of its kind and had
repercussions to a large extent.
I decided to tell him that this must stop or working
together could be a problem. He has his justification that he wanted to monitor
my work closely. I never expected such a change. Day in and day out, there was
a shadow following me. This slowly started to have a psychological bearing on
me. I slowly started to understand that nothing will change if I don't act and
didn't want someone else to control my life.
This change is not something I was willing to accept and
there was no positive to take from it. When life throws up challenges as such,
holding on to faith and expecting miracles to happen wouldn’t serve the
purpose. We must act; action is the key to solution. Running away from the
problem is not the solution.
I asked him to change, I protested, it resulted in a fall
out. I didn't want to give up. It did have a professional effect which I had
anticipated but I am a lot satisfied now.
In the end what matters is the satisfaction and happiness in
what we do. Impressing a person to get temporary happiness in the form of
attention/promotion/ monetary gain will not last long. The following two quotes sums up
everything.
