Professionalism

A professional is the one who does his best when he feels the worse and thus with this I leave no scope for personal issues preoccupying the mind. What we vow to ourselves strongly, our subconscious puts it to action and this slowly becomes a part of our personality.

“You come to your workplace to create a pathway to your ambitions and not to make friends” – this mantra which I repeated for three long years today has made me the way I am. I am not sure if it is justifiable to be called as a robot in human form, but definitely if called as a human in robot form.

I realized that it is not bizarre when one has to smile, and talk in the most polite manner with every second person in order to develop relationships for professional reasons, but this gesture is never with an intention to make anyone your friend. It is not strange when you make them feel like a friend but do not decide to make them aware about you the way you would do to a friend.

Such relationships are always in the form of give and take and we continue to wear this mask in front of them by publicly declaring that I am wearing one and you better be aware of it- and this certainly is communicated in the most polite manner.

This you do not find fake anymore, this you find as a way to be and there is nothing that stinks about it. You cannot maneuver an individual who has learnt the rules of professionalism and you choose not to maneuver someone who is not yet aware of it. True professionalism would never question your self engraved values and dignity, It would only go about enhancing it.

Written by Vrushali Deshpande

Tathastu, It will be...

Sometimes the thing you always craved for in life, the kind of a companion you always desired, the way of reciprocation you always expected, one day it all happens in your life. That person introduces you to happiness by healing that part of pain you thought you will never able to get rid of. You give all possible love you ever had in your heart and the reciprocation is beyond expectations. Couple of year’s passes and the relationship grows stronger and the friendship remains unharmed.

You once gave your love, humility to some chosen few in past and they reciprocated in their own ways; the reasons which were justifiable and some reasons in silence were much more convincing. You say alas! A person you were always waiting for! And this is not a lover, a life partner, or a casual boyfriend, but a true friend; this person has no specific age or gender that makes anything compatible for you.

A time comes when this person understands you the way you want him to understand you and yet calms you, gives you the warmth in his own way. A day comes when you look forward to spending time with that person because that is the only place you feel you can be yourself, where you can express your limitless love without having to think.

You know it so well that nothing can now break this relationship; certainly not because of either of the people involved and this is exactly what then troubles you. Circumstances are created by life that you worry the physical presence of that person in your life. You know that the emotions would never change, but the long distance communication would only take away your only source of happiness away from you. You no longer can look forward to spending time in person, you no longer can see that person and get a smile on your face; and you fight with destiny to prolong and then retain that persons stay in your life.

You are so hell bent on not losing the person that every single day you try convincing God with your own reasons and justifications; hoping that someday he wishes to believe you for once.

Written by Vrushali

It is worth a Wait..

You can’t help but wonder if what you are receiving today is the result of the deeds you once probably did in your past (not sure about past life though!). I do not know if it is luck, destiny or simply this is how it was meant to be, but some things come in your life after a long wait. God tests our patience at every step of life; he puts before us turbulent situations that we one fine day get tired and look for him to ask the most commonly asked question, “why?”

In this time of slow down where every individual is either praying that he is not the one being laid off or that he gets a stable job and the prayer is very dedicated and emotional when the person looking for a job is a fresher living away from his home. Situations seem to worsen when you are in a field where people just do not want to add an expense to their company’s accounts by hiring you.

Wrong companies, wrong interview calls, invalid telephone numbers, fake compensation figures, fake appointment letters and a characterless decision maker of the organization who in many times is the owner of a small firm. The list of fraudulence, deception and hypocrisy goes on.

Stressed out mind becomes too stressed to handle the fluctuations of hope and rejection.
Faith in God starts to quiver yet he is still the one you rely on. Frustrated mind becomes too frustrated to not know if it is capable of losing faith in God.

The wait might be too long to be called the longest and the prayers might be too frequent to wonder if they are even heard. The pain may be too prolonging to wonder if there is an end to tears and the silent shout of ours which we sometimes wonder if is being heard by people around.

In these moments, what is expected out of you is to be tough from within so that someone out there is assured that you are capable of handling forthcoming success. If not for someone out there who we call as God, but become tough to prove the ambitious you that you are in a position to handle every difficulty of life and that you are not the one who will ever give up.

Eventually, you understand these tests were important for us to handle the forthcoming experience which can assure definite success. You understand that had there not been a bad experience you would not have been ever able to become mentally strong. You understand that it was worth a wait and the only thing you will then find yourself doing is “Thank You God”

Written by Vrushali Deshpande

Beautiful Yesterday

Yesterday was beautiful, but life with all its wonders gets a new day for us. Yesterday I met some people whose reciprocation towards my initiation made me what I am today. These people with their words made me have belief in me and with their silence made me see things from a different perspective. No matter how far the yesterday is now from today there are some who continue to stay in your memories regardless of their absence.

Initially life revolved around I, Me, Myself where you could only see your pain and the sufferings of those who meant to you. A time comes when perspectives broaden and we move out of the micro approach towards living life. Suddenly it is no more our problem, our life, our pain but people who we can relate to for mankind sake.

All this while you thought of making a difference to your life or people who made difference to your life, but then you understand that it is meaningful to live life only when you make difference to others life.

Written by Vrushali

Life's Clarity

You reach a stage in life where every little thing about life gets clear in front of you; where there is no effort from your side to make your life complicated. A phase of life where being focused starts to mean everything; where you know what you want in life and what you do not; where you carry on living life with no huge amount of expectation from people who mean to you.

Life tells you with all its clarity that every experience has made the present journey possible and there is nothing to repent about. It tells you that what you are today is because of the decisions you took in life. What you are today is the result of the way you chose to react in past and there is this whole awareness that how one reaction can change everything around us.

There comes a time in life where your perspectives towards things change. The word humility starts to attack your conscience and you watch out on the way you treat people around you. You wonder if you can make a little difference to someone who is asking for help; if you can give some hope to someone who is losing faith due to prolonging failure.

Your resilience surprises you; your belief in yourself strengthens with every failure and the only remedy you offer to your closed ones in times of turbulence is to keep faith. We start to have faith in ourselves only when we fall in love with ourselves so much that no decision of ours can hurt us, no reaction of ours can affect things around us in a negative manner. You learn to simplify your life against all odds and you know that the only hurdle that can come in your life will not be because of you.

There comes a point where things around us get so complacent that we move on to desire things in life which go beyond relationships and career. You desire to live with nature and explore the wonderful things on planet Earth which went until now unexplored. Suddenly you feel the amount of time wasted on things that deserved little importance but then you decide to not further brood over it because it too deserves a laugh.

Written by Vrushali Deshpande