About the write up: Some times, some events in our life are not worth our attention but still we give them time, energy and a part of our lives. What to do in these situations? Read this write up on ego, by Aashi Gaur, to know.
Do you still remember your childhood’s best friend or college best friend’s name? Well, if it’s a yes, very well and good. But if its not, here is your moment. Recall the name. Either ways, you will be surprised to realize that you have that little, cute and innocent smile on your face with many memories flashing your way altogether. (You need to think if you don’t have one).
What brought that precious smile back? What made you walk through that sacred memory lane? What’s so special and what makes it different from your professional circle?
Well, its simple, the simplicity, the innocence, the selflessness and almost zero egotism.
Surely, you have incidents when you buddies might have fought, beaten up, played with, covered up, hanged out with each other and so on. Childhood’s innocent pranks were then overtaken by teenaged dramas which in turn lately got over ridden by office “politics”. The world changed from a big playground to a bigger theater to the biggest battlefield.
What if one’s colleague does not ‘unnecessarily’ complain about his / her minor mistake (which would otherwise go unnoticed)? What if one would take the ‘leg-pulling’ in a little casual way? What if the one who got scolded because of me would just take it as a ‘friendly’ attack? Etc., etc., and etc. As far as my itty bitty mind can think, the ‘official’ world had been a better place to survive and grow up at, had the answers to the above questions be positive.
Whenever your friend made you slip n the game (definitely unintentionally) you would not mind it saying, “That’s ok. Its just a game and you are my friend beside the game”. Whenever your friend mocked at you, you would ignore it saying, “That’s ok. You are my friend beside this joke”. Whenever you got scolded for your friend’s action, you would just revenge it healthily saying, “That’s ok. Its your day today and the next day would be mine but you are still my friend”. Whenever you got revenged, you just partied together.
And the list goes on.
What makes me think about all this is the fact that whenever I faced such ‘battlefield like situations’ at my workplace, my efficiency got affected majority of the times. Had these occasional incidents not taken place I would have focused more on my work , tried to better up myself professionally as well as intellectually. One must think – Why has he taken that education? Why has he joined a workplace? How is this “grown ups’ battle” enhancing oneself, the society and the nation? Don’t let everything that happens around, especially at workplaces be the Ego’s food. Let the child within you enjoy some stuff in the playground, in the theater. Learn to differentiate between Self Respect and Ego.
Remember – Life has lots of more important battles piled up for You.
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Know more about the writer of this write up on ego: Aashi Gaur
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