Living the fairytale life

A fairytale is a story with a prince, a princess;

A land far far away, a dragon to slay

And ‘a happy ending’!

As kids we all were fascinated about fairytales. The magical story, the charming characters, the heavenly set, the flawless attire, the loveable creatures and the mystique dust. We wonder, how can anybody not like fairytale? However, eventually as we grow up, fall in and out of love; have our heart broken once or twice; betrayed by the ones we trust; our belief in fairytales kind of fades a little bit. Yes! We grow up, but not out, of fairytales. In some level we live the fairytale life every day……

Here is an Average Bloke’s story

An average bloke [our prince] in a metro gets up in the morning and goes to a land far far away i.e. his work place. To reach his work place he does not have to catch and slay a dragon. However, he has to catch a train and get down at his stop [believe me this is no less struggle than slaying a dragon]. Needless to say, he is living this fairy tale routine to achieve his happily ever after. And what exactly is his happily ever after?

Work – Fame, money, success, Falling in love, sharing his life, having kids etc....He achieves these happylet’s along the way of his fairy tale routine.

We know that Fairytale teaches us valuable lessons; But the Average bloke's story teaches us the most important lesson of them all.

Happiness is a journey not a destination......

Mango People

The Story of Mango People [Aam Janta]

Why do people cross the railway track and take chances with fatal accidents? I never understood this; that is until today. Today, I got to see this from a different perspective.

Recently I joined a company, which is pretty far from where I live. I have to travel 4-5 hours [to & fro] every day and change 2-3 trains to get to work. While changing trains in some stations the bridges are so crowded and the crowd moves so slowly that we have to miss 3-4 trains while we move along with the crowd in the bridge / steps. If we do not catch the train at a said time our whole schedule is ruined.

Many [lakhs or maybe crores] of people travel like this on a daily basis. The easier way to avoid this is to cross the railway tracks, but it comes with a price - the risk of having a fatal accident or even loosing your life. But for the so called 'Mango people' there are no other option; either they cross the railway track or loose their day's pay. Someones kids might even loose one time meal! Seems untrue and 19th centuryish. Unfortunately, it is true and happens to a fairly large chunk of people living in metro cities.

Think about this:

Its cowardice to choose death over life [Even this life];

The mighty, loose their lives on railway tracks

People come to metro cities with dreams in their eyes and full of energy to succeed [A few do succeed - after all metros are cities where lot of dreams do come true]. But what about the one's whose dreams are shattered into pieces and the one's Who live through life, waiting for that one break-through. Almost everybody comes here to become something, few succeed, others become Mango people [commoners / Aam Janta]

..::Posing as Leaders::..

I read an article in blogsmybandra.com, it was very interesting made me think about today's corporate culture and especially Leadres.

A leader has to lead by example, atleast, that what was taught to us. On the contrary what we see in today's organization, is people posing as leaders just to make their flaws and errors go unnoticed. Its not fair to tag todays generation as 'job hoppers', While the companies are at fault too. Many companies today look at star performers as troublesome and just cannot deal with the acumen of the performer; this is a failure on the part of the HR and the company and should not be construed as the failure of the individual.

Where are we headed with this kind of a culture???

Women's Day - Celebrated on 8th March

A day to celebrate Women!!!

Here is what i made for this special day.

An Amateurs New Year

New responsibilities and roles
new are the friends and foes

New ways new pace
new are the problems
which we are gonna face

New love new luck
My new be our
yellow rubber duck

New rush new blush
new is the guy
whose heart i am gonna crush ;)

Nice or a Pushover !!!

Today i read a gr8 article in Mumbai Mirror titled: Nice employees finish last. This is a small Summary.

Nice: Offering to stay late so that your colleague finishes a project before vacation.
Pushover: Stay late regularly because u cant say no to your colleague.

Nice: Forwarding/sharing Kudos with responsible team mates.
Pushover: Giving Kudos to the team so that u don't seem self-serving.

Nice: Reviewing your new colleague's work & explaining any change.
Pushover: Reviewing your new colleague's work & making changes yourself so that they don't feel hurt.

Nice: Proposing a new idea in a meeting, acknowledge inputs from colleagues
Pushover: Not opening your mouth when someone takes credit for your ideas.

Nice: When someone misleads you discuss the same with them.
Pushover: When someone misleads, instead of discussing the same with them you try to get better information on your own next time.

If you ask me, there is a very thin line between nice and pushover & we cant be in one side all the time. Both qualities exist in us, we have to balance in such a way that we do not become a pushover.

Stand up for your self and be assertive.

Tolerance

"Sometimes with secret pride I sigh,

To think how tolerant am I;

Then wonder which is really mine:

Tolerance or a rubber spine?"