Wings of Desire

मैं पडा था कहीं ज़मीन पर। खुश था।
वहां चहल पहल थी, खुशियाँ थी।
लोग आते थे, बैठते थे, बातें करते थे। साथ में गाते थे, हँसते थे, रोते थे।
फिर किसीने कहा, उड़ना शीखो; दुनिया को ऊँचाई से देखो;
दुनिया बड़ी हसीन नज़र आयेगी।
मैंने फिर प्लास्टिक के पंख लगाए। उड़ता चला ऊपर गगन में।
नदी देखी, झरनें देखे, दरिया देखा।
अब भी वहां नीचे चहल पहल थी। लोग हँसते थे, गाते थे, रोते थे;
पर मैं शामिल नहीं था।
थोड़ा और ऊपर ऊडा, सोचा वे लोग नहीं तो खुदा ही मील जाए।
अब बहोत ऊपर हूँ।
अब झरनें, दरिया नहीं दीखते।
अब तो वहां नीचे की चहल पहल भी नहीं दिखती।
अब सोचता हूँ इन पंखों को ऊखाड फ़ेंक दूं। फिर ख़याल आता हैं,
बिना पंख नीचे गीरुंगा।
सोचा हैं, खुदा से पूछ लूं, पर...
वह भी तो कमबख्त नहीं मिला।

Managing life the child way

I am home from office. It was one of the bad days at office. I always felt the regional offices were not cooperating and the boss was not ready to listen. Who has created this creature named boss? Anyway, I somehow managed him and then these clients, putting undue pressure on me. Arrrgghhh.... when this is going to end? So, here I am home, after a bad day. My child is playing there, with that bubbly energy. My wife gives me a welcome tea (ahh I love tea) to relieve the stress of the day. Just then my child hops on me to show her school fees receipt she received from her class teacher. That's it.... she spills my tea, spoiling my favourite shirt. Now I get really angry with her. I am angry even with my wife, I think she is supposed to teach her. My child is now about to cry, goes to her mother. After a few minutes, she is once again playing there with the same bubbly energy. On the other side, it takes about an hour for me to even speak something. And it takes more hours to behave in a normal way.


The next day I am home. For a change, today it was one of the good days at office. I am in mood to play with my child. Yes that selfish I am that my playing with my child depends on my mood swings! Suddenly, I accidently put my foot on something and we hear a cracking sound. It is a toy, a favourite toy of my child to be specific. Now she is crying like anything. I say sorry. Once again, after a few minutes, she is back to normalcy and starts playing with that same bubbly energy. Moreover, she even does not mind playing with me who has broken her favourite toy.


Have you ever noticed the behaviour of children when they are together. They fight on petty issues, but these fights do not last more than a few minutes, sometimes may stretch longer, but never last overnight. Even we all were the same way when we were kids.


It brings us to question why have we changed? Is this change desirable? We know the answer. Then why have we changed and why cannot we change back to the original? If my boss tells me something I do not like, I still can forget it after a few minutes. If somebody puts undue pressure on me, I can tackle it, and if it's not possible, I can at least forget about it after some time. It is the matter of choice, how we choose to react. It is fine if our initial reaction is not in the desired manner in some of the situations, but to mend the same is in our hands.


Life is a treasure, but nobody is a treasurer of this treasure. No one is distributing the treasure. It is upto you to get the benefits. Let us be children once again. Well, it's time for some play with my child. Have a good day.

Learning to share

This is a collection of important learnings received through various sources:

• Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you compare, you are insulting yourself.
• No one would manufacture a lock without a key. Similarly, God won’t give problems without solutions.
• Life laughs at you when you are unhappy. Life smiles at you when you are happy. Life salutes you when you make other happy.
• Every successful person has a painful story. Every painful story has a successful ending. Accept the pain and get ready for success.
• It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to cover the earth with carpet.
• If a problem can be solved, no need to worry about it. If a problem cannot be solved, what’s the use of worrying?
• Don’t complain about others. Change yourself if you want peace.
• Mistakes are painful when they happen. But years later, collection of mistakes is called experience, which leads to success.
• Be bold when you lose and be calm when you win।
• Heated gold becomes ornament. Beaten copper become wires. Depleted stone becomes statue. So the more pain you get in life, you become more valuable.

Job Change: who are wise?

The economy is booming and the Sensex has crossed 20K mark. The growth is across the wide spectrum of sectors. The phenomenal growth has lead to shortage of qualified (and quality!) professionals. It is to be seen, whether this will continue for long or it is for a short stay, but who cares! For the time being the opportunities are vast for the professionals with the opportunity of different exposure, new learnings and also scope of satisfying the increased appetite of their pockets. There was never a better time than this.

One year with the same organisation is considered too long a period! I am one of those confused guys (those staying with the same organisation for long periods must be confused or boring!!) to have stayed with my first organisation for now whopping four years. I would continue with my example although I know some other dumbo like me. If I had gone jumping jobs, like many of my friends have done, I would have been earning atleast double, or God knows tripple, of what I earn now. I would have been to whole of India or possibly to offshore places.

I am really confused, thinking whether I am such a dumbo not to get enough opportunities or I have chosen to give more time to my organisation? I think it is the later one। Why? Are you a crap? This is the FAQ raised to me। No is my answer. Confused? Let me explain (Hai la....., Munnabhai MBBS). What a person requires with his career is basically a trade-off between two aspects, one is the money factor - which includes the current pay as well as other accruing benefits. The second factor is the job satisfaction and in-turn peace of life. I have chosen to give some more time to my organisation which is providing me the balanced portfolio.

I know what you are thinking right now.... this guy is surely an idealistic, impractical person, isn't that what you are thinking? Let me tell you that I am not favouring that one has to build his entire career at one place... that will corrupt his/her mind and in most probability would make it stagnant. On the other hand, I feel that changing jobs in short periods snatches the objective and focus of one's career.

In the end, it's a trade-off.