I am supposed to report at my office at 10:00am sharp everyday or - TopicsExpress



          

I am supposed to report at my office at 10:00am sharp everyday or else I am subjected to a lot of uncomfortable questions. People always run short of alibis. Tyres dont get flat everyday and daily headache is perhaps sinusitis. It takes around 1 hour for me to reach my office so I leave at around 9 everyday. I said “at around” because there are three distinct time slots in which I set off: 1. 8:45am-9:00am – This is the most comfortable time slot. I drive at a decent speed, relish the drive, enjoy the music and still reach well within time! 2. 9:20am-9:30am – This is a very laid-back timeslot. I do not care about reaching in time. I drive slowly, enjoy the drive, enjoy the music, and keep hatching new excuses in my mind. I mentally prepare myself for the tongue-lashing by seniors. 3. 9:05am-9:15am – This is the most challenging time slot. I wish to reach office on time but I know that I am slightly late so I zoom past every vehicle, I do not care about the music and I give two hoots about the driving pleasure. I reach office sweat drenched, sometimes on time and sometimes late. Now why am I telling you about my daily pilgrimages to office? I realized that these are not time-slots but lifestyles that most of us can associate to. Reaching office is like reaching the targets that we have set for ourselves – Getting a dream job, buying a car, a house, getting married, having kids. The time slots represent how soon we have started our race to reach the targets. Most of us belong to the third category. We do not know when to start and when realization strikes, we press the panic button. We race, we slog, we overwork, overstress, overburden ourselves to achieve the set targets. Sometimes we pass, sometimes we fail. And there are the second kind of people who just dont care about achieving the targets in time. They enjoy their lives and dont care about what the world says about them. And of course there are the first kind of people who know when to start, where to start and they achieve everything well within time. These people enjoy their lives and accomplish their missions at the same time. Those are the ones we call achievers. What kind are you? - Atul Kumar Mishra
Posted on: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:42:26 +0000

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