Its 3 30 am, and Roopa just reached her home. She has had a very tough life for the last few weeks. She was really pleased with herself when she got placed in the top notch company during her campus placements. And why not.. after all, she worked extremely hard to achieve success. She took pride on herself for being able to push herself to the limits and no matter how demanding a task, to rest only upon its completion.
But this proved to be a major disadvantage at her work place. She realised that her “strengths” were being taken advantage of. Work load kept piling up and she gave it everything she had to finish it. And when that was over, she got found herself being given even more difficult obligations. And the cycle went on.. and she felt exploited at a certain point.
Moreover, she was new to the city and not yet totally used to the daily grind. The fact that she stayed alone in her flat, dint help much. Her work had taken away every single moment of peace. She had absolutely no time to socialise or even pay a courtesy visit to her neighbours. And needless to mention, she had no time for herself. Day by day, her company drove her to exhaustion, yet diplomatically convinced her to drudgingly go by the regime without any outward complaints.
Today, she reached breaking point. She hardly had any food the entire day(nothing new about that), had to be lectured about responsibility for something she wasn’t responsible, tripped in the hallway and earned scrutinising glares from her colleagues besides hurting her knee badly, had to go personally to deliver an “important file” and was directed to 4 different departments before which Roopa found the right office, and received a very elaborate sermon about why women are so inefficient and should never be allowed to do anything other than make rotis at home, got forcible involved in sticky office politics, by then she realised that her work id was missing and was yelled at by the security who found it...another lecture on her being useless and irresponsible. Moreover, she had to stay extra hours to meet the deadline for the recent project. She was promised a drive home but when she was done for the day(oops..night) , help vanished. Roopa had to travel at the witching hour all by herself and endure all sorts of lewd remarks from perverts. And by the time she reached her apartment, few bachelors looked at their watches and leered at her. She was disgusted with the way the day turned out. And as if to top off the misery with dessert, lift was out of order and she had to climb 17 floors with her hurt leg and frowned at the thought of it. She reached her door and wanted to just collapse of the bed.. on the verge of tears due to physical pain and shame. Somehow Roopa drove herself to prepare a small dinner and it was exactly midnight. She switches on the TV to watch the lottery programme and monotonously fumbles through her purse and pulls out her lottery ticket(one of her outlandish fantasies to win the jackpot and had made it a ritual to purchase a lottery ticket once a week)still frowning. The numbers are recited and VOILA!! To her amazement the winning jackpot is the number she is holding in her hand!!!
She does quadriple checks to confirm if the numbers and dates match...and IT DOES!! Roopa has indeed won the lottery.. whoooohoooo... she screams and jumps in joy...pushes away her plate, her “hunger” is satiated.. she is in hyper excited state.. actually even beyond that... she was totally charged and wanted to scream on top of her voice that she is happiest, luckiest gal in the whole world!!!! She just cant stop grinning:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
Hold on a sec.. isn’t there any conflict in this situation, minutes ago, she was in dumps. She had a very horrible day. And moreover, her pain was physical to a certain extent. She hurt her legs, climbed a lot of floors, nearly starved for a couple of days. From where did she get this energy to jump and scream and do a couple of back flips!!
Is it just the lottery?? I think it has got something to do with the mind.
Think about it. If pain bothers people, why would so many spend hours at the gym everyday and go through strenuous physical drills? More than the pain, what matters is your attitude towards it.
I remember when my mother cut her finger badly through her finger nail while cutting vegetables. And that too on her thumb. Obviously she would have been in pain. But yet, she continued with all her work, cooking, washing vessels, serving food, tidying the house... without complaining... she had the energy and used it positively without wasting it on self-pity or sympathy from everyone at home. :-)
Not everyone will get a lottery during their cloudy days to show them about the “power of the mind”. Stay positive... because ultimately, its about how you perceive things. Its all in the mind... :-)
But this proved to be a major disadvantage at her work place. She realised that her “strengths” were being taken advantage of. Work load kept piling up and she gave it everything she had to finish it. And when that was over, she got found herself being given even more difficult obligations. And the cycle went on.. and she felt exploited at a certain point.
Moreover, she was new to the city and not yet totally used to the daily grind. The fact that she stayed alone in her flat, dint help much. Her work had taken away every single moment of peace. She had absolutely no time to socialise or even pay a courtesy visit to her neighbours. And needless to mention, she had no time for herself. Day by day, her company drove her to exhaustion, yet diplomatically convinced her to drudgingly go by the regime without any outward complaints.
Today, she reached breaking point. She hardly had any food the entire day(nothing new about that), had to be lectured about responsibility for something she wasn’t responsible, tripped in the hallway and earned scrutinising glares from her colleagues besides hurting her knee badly, had to go personally to deliver an “important file” and was directed to 4 different departments before which Roopa found the right office, and received a very elaborate sermon about why women are so inefficient and should never be allowed to do anything other than make rotis at home, got forcible involved in sticky office politics, by then she realised that her work id was missing and was yelled at by the security who found it...another lecture on her being useless and irresponsible. Moreover, she had to stay extra hours to meet the deadline for the recent project. She was promised a drive home but when she was done for the day(oops..night) , help vanished. Roopa had to travel at the witching hour all by herself and endure all sorts of lewd remarks from perverts. And by the time she reached her apartment, few bachelors looked at their watches and leered at her. She was disgusted with the way the day turned out. And as if to top off the misery with dessert, lift was out of order and she had to climb 17 floors with her hurt leg and frowned at the thought of it. She reached her door and wanted to just collapse of the bed.. on the verge of tears due to physical pain and shame. Somehow Roopa drove herself to prepare a small dinner and it was exactly midnight. She switches on the TV to watch the lottery programme and monotonously fumbles through her purse and pulls out her lottery ticket(one of her outlandish fantasies to win the jackpot and had made it a ritual to purchase a lottery ticket once a week)still frowning. The numbers are recited and VOILA!! To her amazement the winning jackpot is the number she is holding in her hand!!!
She does quadriple checks to confirm if the numbers and dates match...and IT DOES!! Roopa has indeed won the lottery.. whoooohoooo... she screams and jumps in joy...pushes away her plate, her “hunger” is satiated.. she is in hyper excited state.. actually even beyond that... she was totally charged and wanted to scream on top of her voice that she is happiest, luckiest gal in the whole world!!!! She just cant stop grinning:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
Hold on a sec.. isn’t there any conflict in this situation, minutes ago, she was in dumps. She had a very horrible day. And moreover, her pain was physical to a certain extent. She hurt her legs, climbed a lot of floors, nearly starved for a couple of days. From where did she get this energy to jump and scream and do a couple of back flips!!
Is it just the lottery?? I think it has got something to do with the mind.
Think about it. If pain bothers people, why would so many spend hours at the gym everyday and go through strenuous physical drills? More than the pain, what matters is your attitude towards it.
I remember when my mother cut her finger badly through her finger nail while cutting vegetables. And that too on her thumb. Obviously she would have been in pain. But yet, she continued with all her work, cooking, washing vessels, serving food, tidying the house... without complaining... she had the energy and used it positively without wasting it on self-pity or sympathy from everyone at home. :-)
Not everyone will get a lottery during their cloudy days to show them about the “power of the mind”. Stay positive... because ultimately, its about how you perceive things. Its all in the mind... :-)
5 comments:
hi... nice post... elucidates the importance of positive attitude..:) but, if we r not occasionally rewarded for having a positive outlook, how do we keep up such positive thoughts?
Hi Priyanka, Good writing skills and brought out well the importance of "Attitude" towards life....and the positive energy it brings...
Need to look at the Good things the Life has given to keep up the poisitive thoughts. Born in the world without any physical inability by itself is a wonderful thought which should keep us Going.....there are many many such things, lovable parents, family, friends and the list goes on.....
Hii... Rachana, actually i feel we are rewarded. dont positive thoughts give us such a peace of mind?? :-)
what else can be more rewarding.. :-)
thanks papa.. i agree with u
Nice post :) Yes, agreed, our human mind has the capability to generate energy through positive thoughts.
wow!!! all ur writing work gives me some kind of energy and are really insightful.awesome!! keep doing it..:-)
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