Indifference..!!!

     I have discovered one of my latent talents which seems to be developed somewhere in the recent past. I’m sure roots of this was implanted much earlier from my college days & in my unawareness gradually with time it went on growing and today it has become an integrated part of professional “me”. This art is nothing creative but it is an art of being indifferent.

       Behaving with filtered emotions with people and situations is unwanted gift of corporate life. Taking advantage of someone and then behaving indifferently is common here. Interfering into someone’s personal matter through somebody else and then behaving completely indifferently against that someone is nothing new. (I don’t know what pleasure it gives.)

      Even worse is a case when you yourself are a victim of such a scenario and there is nothing to protest. Even though this hurts you more than a physical pain or a monetary loss, there is no law to stand by your side. No judiciary where you can claim for your loss of trust in human being.

       As there is no way to escape, you will have to face people you hate the most in your daily routine. As you have to complete your official task as a part of your duty, you’ll have to talk to such people. As your corporate code of conduct stops you beating/slapping such people in public, you’ll behave indifferently as if nothing has happened or anything hardly matter to me and manage with a smile on your face.

       But if you are having a human part in you, you can not/should not suppress such emotions in you for long period. A pressure cooker also needs to release its pressure with the help of whistle. Similarly we also need to release such anger somewhere. That is where friends come for the rescue again. We can pour out all our anger, get their advice, feel relieved and move on.

       Although we can stretch little longer with the help of friends, such incidents creates an urge to go to newer place when you can have a fresh start. Again these things follow at new place too. But by now you have become mature enough not to repeat previous mistakes, not to trust anyone blindly. You have accepted all these as a part of your professional life; you have become indifferent to this.

       It looks nice on the outer front to have everything under control. But we are human after all, not machine. Of all the species, we are gifted with all colorful emotions. We have privilege to laugh, to cry, to love, to revenge. And we should value and utilize our gift. It is up to us to select positive or negative set of reactions. But at least react. Do not carry the attitude of indifference in your personal life at least.

      When I see people novice to this corporate world & free from such indifference I feel envy of them. When I was new to this world, I used to trust everyone, I might be less smart, less experienced, still I feel I was better then. The only solution I see to this problem is being little indifferent to your selfishness and not to pass what has happened to you to others and stop this cycle.

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