Let Go…
That’s the secret- Letting go…
More of the small/trivial
things you let go and the sooner you do it, more will be the peace you’ll have
and you’ll have it sooner too.
It is true that these smaller
things take up little spells of our time, effort and mind space. Also true is
the fact that we usually tangle ourselves in a gazillion of these small things-
day in, day out- and they add up. Ask yourself, when was the last time your
mind was empty- utterly, totally empty- of all thoughts. Sitting quietly on a
park bench, our mind goes for a jog alongside all the people strolling in the
park- he’s fat, she looks good in the sun, look at that cute kid, god how I
wish that stupid bird would shut up and so on. When you are not too occupied
with your head inside your smartphone, that is.
And for the hyper-sensitive,
attention-deficit youngsters of today (of which I am one myself), it takes very
little to push them over the tolerance threshold- dusty roads, vague
signboards, faulty grammar, ill-typed mail, wrong colour of a picture, you name
it. Ironically, some of us, we are bugged even by our own less-than-perfect
work of yesterday.
I can’t even begin to think why
it is this way with us. I don’t even think I know enough to dig into the
reasons. But here’s what I recently learnt from a patient, sagely boss (yes, some
do exist): Let go.
The perspective he gave was
quite interesting in that it was simple; it got me thinking. Everything is done
by people, and no person is perfect- neither in what they are, nor in what they
do. But they do things nonetheless, for whatever reason. Now, it ain’t possible
for us to take everything upon ourselves. (Yeah, we have enough things to do
already) So, let go- let people do what they have to do. And you get down to do
what you need to.
Call it delegation, call it
tolerance or as Dale Carnegie says, “Don’t saw sawdust…” and see for yourself…
Hakuna matata!
-Mach
Bangalore, 28th
Oct, 2014
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