koolhead17
Part of growing up is seeing parents getting old. Old age is no different than early childhood. It requires proper handling of emotions, conversations, and situations. Anything and everything can trigger displeasure.
At times, things go south. But in a wider picture, It teaches us a lot about empathy, compassion, respect and caring.
Democracy is a great equalizer. It requires no degree, caste or class for electing a representative or becoming one.
All it requires is keeping voters believe in you. This can be achieved via fueling hope and banking on emotions. We voters forget past, we don’t judge. We are like a herd divided on caste, religion, and ideology. We live in our own echo chambers and confirmation bias. With 24/7 news channel and newspapers fuels in the propaganda.
Last resort when nothing works: nationalism comes for the rescue. For the sake of country vote us.
Real agenda of health, illiteracy, women’s health, regional and religion independence gets no mention.
New India has no opposition, no one to check on the misdeed of government. Time will tell if a democratic leader is going to turn into an authoritarian regime.
I have heard stories about how a comparison plays a role in society. From parents to a manager to a sports coach, everyone compares.
We are all biased. We have our own lens. We conclude judgment on our own ideology.
Your father might compare you with brother saying how prosperous he is with a great salary. This forgets mentioning how his money making kin is a lab rat and running after money.
Your manager might not like you because he/she thinks you are not adding value. He/she forgets your contribution with many other domains: hiring, community, management.
Your coach will not like your contribution because he/she thinks you are a good bowler. Your contribution as an all-rounder goes in waste.
One has to be very careful in handling these situations.
I have been living on my own for the past few years. I have control over whom to meet, where to eat and whom to indulge with. It has made my life much saner. I am not indulging with people I don’t like. I got to learn about this concept of Mirror neuron.
A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an animal acts and when the animal observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron “mirrors” the behavior of the other, as though the observer were itself acting. Such neurons have been directly observed in primate species.
— Wikipedia
We act and behave like people around us? Imagine working with a team of sexist or dopamine driven members.
There are those moments in our life which are priceless: holding your newborn, the first kiss, mothers hug.
We are too busy making money. The time we devote to earning supersedes over idleness.
The more and more we engulf in the daily needs forgetting these little moments. These burnt of joy which helps our heart and minds cheerful are limited.
Confusion and misunderstanding can affect any relationship: from peers to couples to parents with kids.
Our ego makes thing more difficult. Instead of empathizing with the other side, we make a judgment.
How many friends and close ones have you parted away because of this?
With the advancement of technology, we have stopped talking face to face. From breakups to closure happens over email or WhatsApp et all.
Our mind is occupied with our urges. These could be self-created around our desires. Our desire to be someone we are not.
Desire is like a void, the wanting to make an elephant run at a horse race.
Marketers and advertisers have been selling us hope. Hope aligned with our purchasing power to become someone.
From crap like cola to nachos, we have celebrity endorsements. We are sold an idea of becoming like someone.
Why do we have to become someone?
It is so easy to get frustrated over anything. It can be as small as over a sugary cup of tea to an illogical conversation. We will be in anger or frustration because of other party or their actions. How much help it does to us? I would say NONE
Why do we have to burn yourself over the action of others?
Hiring is not a challenge and is never a pain for startups. If you are running a startup, as a founder it is your job to spearhead the hiring process. Early employees are no less than owners of a startup.
These simple questions will in itself give you the answers:
We are competing in every sphere of our life.
From finding college sweetheart to campus placements. From promotion to offshore opportunity.
Even getting love and attention from siblings and parents we are competing.
What about competing with our allocated time in this life, how are we utilizing it?
How about competing with ourselves, killing a vice and becoming a better version?