Human Values

The current week is really hectic and is also putting me under tremendous pressure. Having recovered from a bout of tonsillitis, I was feeling weak at the beginning of the week. But then the thought of behaving like a zombie at work and at home was not the way I wanted the week to be. Hence I was able to muster most of the energy to keep me cheerful throughout the days.

Any average family in Middle East will have the husband working and the wife taking care of the children. This is what hurts me the most. Whilst I could meet a lot of people and go places, I have my wife sitting at home enduring the tantrums of house keeping and raising a one year old. Wish there was day I could swap places. It is not that I want to enjoy being at home, but to share the load of Wife. Sounds benign but I am sure its not easy. But come whatever the joy of having a family and home is beyond words.

This leads to the main subject of the importance of work in our life. Out of the available 18 hours in a day I spent up to 11 hours at work. Which translates to the fact that I spent close to 60 percent of time at work. So it isn't wrong from my part to call Work as an extension of my family which of course gets more share than the later. In that case, my colleagues become my family members.

The day when you know that one of your colleague is leaving the company is the most devastating feeling. And I regret to inform that I am going through the throes of it. When someone close to you quits an organisation, its not just that he or she is leaving the workplace but is also leaving the family. Added to it, this causes a total collapse of the morale of the others. I have lost my morale and have become desperate to never seen levels. From my previous blogs it was evident that I need a change in life. The dreams of a successful career has ceased to exist and when we look around and see people around you moving to various places, you realize the importance of human values. Everything and anything to me comes to the term human values. Your enthusiasm levels, your sorrow, your joy etc all are derived from the people around you. My colleague with whom I spent 11 hours at work, was certainly a reason for my joys or sorrows or what so ever. My aggression towards certain things was the confluence of deeds of some others around me.

Which in short, summarizes to the fact that for a work place to be good, the people have to be good. Honesty between members is the as important at work as it is at home. Sharing good and bad like we do at home, has to be a practice at work. There should be more "WE" than "I". Such virtues are all part of the human value and if values do not exist, its time that I might have to spent more time under pressure and see my family members leave one after the other!!! Adios...