What can not be cured, must be endured!

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!’