Spiritual Awakening

“I do not know what this is evidently supposed to be. All I care is I am right, whatever happens...”

- Atul Madiwale or someone ?? !! ??

It started with a situation, an experience. A past experience, I could not control the repercussions in an exposed environment – under the bright sunlight with due respect to all the electric tubes and bulbs in the late hours of the day. I do apologise for the synonyms used though they are most apposite.

It starts with the composed and closed connections that I shared with a person, in person. Everyone is equally fortunate enough to meet different personalities in a single day, and so am I. I used to start my day with 1 hour, day-time travelling and 1.5 hours night-time travelling. Though the distance was same, the time taken to cover the same distance never been the same. Sometimes the time used to get stretched up to 2 hours or may be more. The reason being my mental status at that hour of the day.

Like I said, few years ago, I was young, unlike professionals. The young blood, where one does not need any help, does not seek for any help, does not pray for any help and nor beg for any help. So was I, equally demonstrative. The dynamics of creativity, jovial nature and explicit ideology were my loyal colleagues. The nourishment of every plant requires periodical treatments where it needs professional gardener and the meticulous gardening process to be called as presentable!!!

Process in any organization is meant to be uni-directional. If the process is defined as ‘left – to – right’ then it should be operated ‘left – to – right ’. Reporting authority should ensure the processes are followed as directed.

Everybody aims high and professionalism comes with high risks, with guidance !!!

I decided to listen to elders, seniors and veterans. This move was not directional and also was not parallel to my route. I had my ways of giving back and so I was reluctant to follow the guidelines as these guidelines were not in-sync with the process charts which were shared with me on the first day of joining. Sad in’ne ??

Initially, it was 1 hour, heading journey to the work place and the returning journey as well. Later as the process charts and guidelines started conflicting, the returning journey started adding minutes to the morning heading journey. More heads started guiding the process, eventually adding to the conflicts and this, conveniently kept adding minutes further to my returning journey.

The behaviour at the workplace improved to such an obvious level that if the senior is taking time, it is careful and thorough approach to situation and me taking time was considered as slow. Any tasks not completed from my end, I was considered as lazy and seniors for the same situation were considered to be too busy. If me taking different route without informing anyone, I was considered to be acting too smart and the same, if done by the seniors, were appreciated as an initiative to complete the given task.

Nothing could be changed and all I was advised, as a solution, to get acclimatized with the situation. Believing this to be the only solution to the situation, the moulding process started getting defined yard-by-yard. I understood, not to make any changes and accept the changes with a smile on the face. This behaviour unknowingly developed a tendency to let the things happen. I developed an unmistakable ability of enjoying every moment. Everyone noticed that I had developed a loss of ability to worry. Overwhelming episodes of appreciation were getting consistently consistent. With acceptance to follow the said route, I started showing loss of interest in conflicts. This reached to such an extent that I lost the interest of judging others. I started getting frequent attacks of smiles and started feeling connected with others and nature as well.

After spending a sustainable tenure in the corporate, everyone started appreciating my capability to tackle situations and for me, I had actually started enjoying and experiencing “Spiritual Awakening” !!!