It’s been a rather long 24 hours.
The first part was great – up all night with a friend trying to understand views on insecurity, life etc..
-> I learnt that I see a big difference between being aware about a problem and accepting a problem. In my book, that’s like the difference between thinking and execution as change comes only after we accept something..
The next parts not so. After a couple of hours of sleep, I was woken up to seeming crisis calls and here were a couple of struggles –
-> ‘Hear both sides before judging‘ – This is soo difficult! Especially when one side is a near and dear one telling you plainly and explicitly that there is a problem with the other. I tried, though, to live up to this. Not sure what the result will be (as it is likely that the near and dear ones are absolutely right), but atleast I had a taste of how difficult it is to this..
-> View a problem as it is – This was the other factor I was struggling with. This is sometime so difficult. Take a friend who has missed an appointment. Now, that is a problem as you lost 2 hours of time.. the reason it becomes worse in our heads is because we think back and look at all his past faults and find someway to link them all together and that’s when the trouble begins..
Not easy to view something in isolation. I tried..
Also amazing how things cascaded –
-> Went for noodle lunch to meet with a friend. Was already irritable as I went late, ended up losing my cool with a watchman who was annoying me about parking space..
-> And surprise surprise, I landed up with a stomach upset..
Interesting day, it was! Lots of take aways. As far as the crisis situation goes, tomorrow will shed more light as to the outcome. That is bound to be interesting as well..
A Learning a Day 