Connecting

It’s a constant challenge to connect to as many constituents around you. Of course it’s a trade off most of the time. If you connect to the good helpful guys you will not connect to the ass holes. Also if you don’t connect to the smokers its not that you will connect to the non smokers. Faltu philosophy aside, its fun connecting to a part of the younger crowd. I feel that right now I might be more connected than most my age. I can get my way around them and get them to see my point as well understand theirs. I guess it’s easier that I am 31. But I always keep wondering, how would it be when I get older. Will I connect as well, will I completely lose track, will I be so passé. Dunno. Jispa will have to decide that I guess. I sure Jispa would find it most eerie if can connect with her crowd well enough to second guess her thoughts. Will that intrude her privacy in some tangential sort of way? I dunno. Some young friends have pointed that out to me. They sometimes find it eerie for me to second guess their emotions. But so far its more good than queer. Don’t want to scare her when she is elder. Also what must come along with this is the ability to shut up and keep the thoughts to one self. Now that’s tough : ) so having said that there are so many in the work space and around that I just cant connect to. It’s almost self righteous in many ways but still work space is a brilliant example of how many contradicting forces act upon each other and hold the place together. Many roles are required of the ecosystem. If the people are too righteous, business loses a part of its meaning. On the other hand the place also requires some saints and evangelists. It’s like one of the philosophies I read in the Circle of innovation by tom peters. The brilliance is that he writes a lot of common sense but always seems so in hindsight. He talks of businesses needing the Hindu trimurti philosophy of the Creator – Brahma, Preserver – Vishnu and Destroyer – Shiva. It’s important to have all three in the ecosystem for it to thrive and move fast on. It’s also been my philosophy at all times to accept nothing as dogma. Everything can be questioned. Any belief can be undone. Sometimes this does lead to stress within the group I lead but over period of time it is important to be fluid yet a powerful force. (So much like the life giving Ganga, which ambles along accepting many rivers into it, giving life where it goes, cooling the lands, yet getting rough in parts and finally carrying all the sins into the vast sea. It is truly a philosophy to emulate). Which is why the title Opposites Reconcile. It is such an important and simple part of understanding. That’s also why I love the eastern Yin and Yang symbol. How one force is empty without the other, how opposites forces need to balance out... How all can be contained within one being. I can only begin to understand what its complete symbology means but hope to better my understanding every day. Only thing is that while it talks of two opposite forces, it would interesting to see a symbol of many forces (not necessarily opposite in nature) balancing out in harmony and being important contributors of the whole. Which without even one, the whole is empty and not self sustaining. WHOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAA.. jyada tha who! Too much heady stuff for one morning from me…..