It is funny how some very small yet interesting things
get missed in the hustle bustle of daily life. I have always considered myself
to be a crack at it, with a great eye for detail. However, I have had a few
interesting incidents that have turned my views, inside out or have put
satisfactory doubt into my mind.
The first was at a friend's work desk, in the last two years I have walked there a million times, awaiting the next question she will throw which will put me in a quandary. She has this amazing knack of finding the 1 in a millionth possibility which will undo the hard work. Let us not take away the fact that, that 1 possibility will magically be in her projects only. Thank God for these small mercies!!!
Anyway, I digress, the last three times I have been at her desk, I started noticing things and was pondering when did they get there! Haven't seen them, and with my usual confidence, I asked when she had gotten them. Wham! (came the first smack to my precious ego), where she said that these things were always there. Double Wham!! (the second whammy came), you did not notice these for all this time!!!
I smartly beat a hasty retreat to avoid this cornering, but I returned and decided to mine the beautiful wall for, here are the two very interesting spoils I plundered from her desk:
"Sandpaper When you have to put up with mean people, Think of them as sandpaper. They may scratch you, Rub you the wrong way But Eventually.... You end up smooth and polished.
And the sandpaper...? It'll be worn out and ugly! Makes you think, doesn't it?
Never lose sight of who you are because you are the best thing God ever created! Embrace the gift."
"Common Sense Common Sense is NOT a Gift…… It is a Punishment!!! Because you have to deal with everyone who doesn’t have it!!!"
Again the confidence about noticing the little things, got thrashed. I was waiting for the bus that nicely packs us and delivers us to office, the sun was doing its all time best to bake me alive. When I moved under the shade of a pillar and was blessing it and wondering when it was put up for the greater benefit of me. That's when another colleague seemed to read what was on my mind and said, "yeh toh pehle se hi tha!"......
Aieeeyaaa!!!!
The first was at a friend's work desk, in the last two years I have walked there a million times, awaiting the next question she will throw which will put me in a quandary. She has this amazing knack of finding the 1 in a millionth possibility which will undo the hard work. Let us not take away the fact that, that 1 possibility will magically be in her projects only. Thank God for these small mercies!!!
Anyway, I digress, the last three times I have been at her desk, I started noticing things and was pondering when did they get there! Haven't seen them, and with my usual confidence, I asked when she had gotten them. Wham! (came the first smack to my precious ego), where she said that these things were always there. Double Wham!! (the second whammy came), you did not notice these for all this time!!!
I smartly beat a hasty retreat to avoid this cornering, but I returned and decided to mine the beautiful wall for, here are the two very interesting spoils I plundered from her desk:
"Sandpaper When you have to put up with mean people, Think of them as sandpaper. They may scratch you, Rub you the wrong way But Eventually.... You end up smooth and polished.
And the sandpaper...? It'll be worn out and ugly! Makes you think, doesn't it?
Never lose sight of who you are because you are the best thing God ever created! Embrace the gift."
"Common Sense Common Sense is NOT a Gift…… It is a Punishment!!! Because you have to deal with everyone who doesn’t have it!!!"
Again the confidence about noticing the little things, got thrashed. I was waiting for the bus that nicely packs us and delivers us to office, the sun was doing its all time best to bake me alive. When I moved under the shade of a pillar and was blessing it and wondering when it was put up for the greater benefit of me. That's when another colleague seemed to read what was on my mind and said, "yeh toh pehle se hi tha!"......
Aieeeyaaa!!!!
(to be continued)
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