One of the few things that have always amused me are the “employment involvement” activities that are held in office. A bunch of people getting together to create some sort of excitement in the otherwise mundane and routine weekday. To me most of them are …well ..appreciable but not something that I’ll remember after about a month or so ( we’ll remember all the regular masti that happened but not the cause of the day). Infact even the concepts on most events are usually something I’ll not bother with. But today for a change, the event being held in office has made me think… Rewind.. or so the theme goes is a day we look back upon the past 10 years of this place, and it made me think… why do all references of going back in time only talk about the good things….”Good Ol memories” as they are called….. what happens to the bad ones, the heart breaks, the failures, the struggles…why do we always want to forget the pain??
I have always believed in the whole “ the energy in the universe is finite, it only changes form” theory of physics. So logically, I have always wondered what happens to force and energy created by all the pain in our lives. Every time we break our hearts, we collect the pieces and move on… does that mean that years later, that person doesn’t deserve the tears we shed when we had just said good bye… ok.. maybe in the bad break up , the he cheating, disowning etc etc type it may be true because all your feelings are converted to hate, but… what about heart breaks caused due to other stuff… like distance or change in priorities… it pained us that time right?... so why not now?... maybe its human nature to fill up voids… but where do all those feelings disappear?? Where does that energy go?.
And the same applies not just to love but also work… at one point in time we gave our life and blood for something, a business or a part of the business we called our own… and then we moved on… so what happens to all those feelings you had about the earlier job…. Don’t those outcomes mean anything to you anymore?.... I spoke to a team member from my earlier job a few days back… and he went on cribbing about the way things have become at my old office….and it cringed me to think of the way the new guys have screwed up the business I spent 2 years of my life building…. I was angry and upset and pissed…almost fuming over the phone… yet today after 2 days I’m fine… and I wonder why… we give up our personal lives for our professional commitments and then we give up those very commitments… at the end of the day…. What do we have left???
