profoundipity

One of my regular readers was talking to me the other day about my blog. How she reads it everyday and how she likes to have coffee (or was it tea) while reading it. It is her two bit of reading before she gets into work… and other such similar stuff. She had one complaint though, or should I say feedback. She says that I nowadays write too short and there is no gyan there. She urges me to write something profound.
Well profound is not a rabbit that I can pull off from my hat but it is as a result of something that might have happened to me or something that made me see light of day. That doesn’t happen everyday. Also after you simply life largely, you get less and less stuff that’s profound. It’s like the ultimate truth, once you know it, there is nothing more to learn. Not that I know the ultimate truth but things have surely simplified for me over the years.
The ultimate strength of your truth is the fact that you keep applying often to many and varied situations. These help you ratify your theories and strengthen them. They then aecome the basis for your actions. Now here I do not pass a value judgement on these theories. Now of my colleagues was talking about an ex boss who happened to be my college friend. My colleague and I had complete opposite images of the person. It seems like he was the greatest guy in college who went on to sell his soul to the corporate devil. What happened? I answered that possibly he encountered corporate life and realised that this place stinks and he would have seen no option but to sell his soul. His must have learnt something along the way.
So each to his own truth.
Yesterday I got pissed at the stress levels in my team. Unwittingly they had gotten them selves into a position that made them forget balance and were sitting till late everyday. I gave one short terse lecture on leaving office at 6 everyday and that I need to know specifically if anything was keeping them at office. A small nudge on this was provided by one KRA mail that was sent by the boss. One of the division’s KRA was to make ours the best place to work. I see it as one in the line of empty statements. I believe that making this statement is useless; you have to believe and act accordingly. And if you believe in it, it should have been done and there is no point making the statement. But whatever the wisdom, if the statement is made, I am going to be the guy trying to make it work in some manner in my control. Hence the tirade…
On another profound note (dedicated to that earlier mentioned reader). I go for swimming in the morning. Some of the kiddie champs finish about the time I get in. one of the boys (around 12 years) was in the shower. The door is open. He is there standing under the shower with his trunks on. He is just there. He is not moving. The shower is just falling on his back. The steam is coming from it and he is just there not moving, simply staring. A typical 12 year old to bored to really shower. I am looking at him. No movement, just a stand and stare. For some reason I reach out and close his shower cabin door and he wakes up from his stupor. He quickly comes out and starts drying himself. He wet his bum. That was his shower after the swim. Kid, I mumble to myself.
What was profound about that? You dip in the water and sharpen it again and again, o kaalia I read your mind.