We had a hilarious
situation today. A colleague rang up and handed a poser - one of his
subordinates, otherwise intelligent and action-oriented had only one issue. He
was so fiercely independent in his opinion that what ever you told him, he
would do what he wants to do. In the process, there were more challenges to
sort out than results obtained.
How to solve a
problem like Maria? How to hold the moon beam in your hand? (Courtesy lyrics
from the movie Sound of Music) were the MDQs (Million Dollar Question)!
Everyone who heard
the vexatious to hilarious instances that the colleague narated, came out with
some suggestion. Frankly, I could only think of a story my father used to
narrate:
There was this
father of the girl who succeeded in getting her married to a groom who was
acknowledged to be a good man. After a while, a friend of the father who could
not attend the marriage function visited them to convey his apologies for not
attending the marriage and to inquire how was it going with the young couple.
He found the father sitting with his palms on the chin, deeply into
contemplation. The conversation went some what like this:
Hello! Heard that
your groom is a good man and the marriage was grand. But I see you lost in some
thought?
Oh, yeah, yeah
(sigh!)
Well, any problem?
No, no actually I
am puzzled.
Why?
You know, our
ithihasa (the holy Hindu scriptures) say that a perfect man Like Lord shri Ram
possesses 64 virtues (good attributes or characteristics). My son in law seems
to have 62 of them.
Wow, lucky man!
And you sit here holding your palms to your chin?
Okey, ask me what
are those two attributes that he does not have.
What?
One, he does not
know what is good or bad. Second, he wouldn’t listen if you tell him. He has
all the other 62 virtues!
The friend did not
know what to say.
Sometimes you just
have to laugh (and lump it too!) about what is given. Humans are funny. In case
you do not believe me, just take a breath and look around!!
We may think that
we are cat’s whiskers and there is nothing that we can not handle. Look again,
there will be things that we simply have live with. So what do you do?
ABC.
A – avoid
B – by pass
C – confuse
If ABC does not
work, better live with it! To quote my father again, ‘What can not be cured,
must be endured!’
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