Jispa is now string enough to bully Jasmine. At home she
jumps on Jasmine and pins her down. Jasmine can do much except protest. Both of
them have these cute physical fights around the house and it always ends with
Jasmine getting bullied by Jispa. So when they are whacking each other, I find
it amazing to see Jispa getting whacks from Jasmine and standing her ground.
They grow up strong. Jispa and I were discussing the other
day on how we have gotten her to grow. Whenever she would get hurt I would ask
her “do you enjoy doing what you were doing while getting hurt?”. “yup? Then shut
up and grin it and bear it.” She remembers that till now. In some ways, many
ways, a father has mildly succeeded. I am happy. Shits gonna happen. You gonna
have fun and then move on. You can’t dwell on it screwing your day. Too Much.
I remember the song Sunscreen. I have posted it before. It
gives life advice and always goes back to the simple thing of using sunscreen.
For me – it fresh tender coconut water. Always drink fresh coconut water. It helps
me regulate my acidity and helps me hydrate myself. Everyday morning when I wake
up and I have to go to play, I have coconut water. I cannot stress less on the
fact that you must have coconut water. On days when I think I haven’t drank
enough water, I have a coconut water. It just seems to take away all my issues.
It’s the best thing in the world. It’s my answer to Sunscreen.
Advice – here is one – don’t take and please don’t give. Your
job is to just hang around and listen. Advice is always subjective. How do I get
myself to stop giving advice? I have no clue. I want to stop it.
Food is getting weird for me by the day. As I am growing
older I am getting more and more sensitive to different kinds of foods. I feel
potatoes don’t work for me in the tiffin. Funnily they seem to work in
restaurants. Possibly it’s the ginger or garlic along that works. I don’t know.
Tomato soup – can’t have that as well. Funny… I loved that as a kid. Cheese
sandwich and tomato soup. Now I feel it gives me acidity. Chopped tomatoes are
good. It’s the soup that takes me out.
Coffee – I have written about this. Not two days in a row,
else bad headache the third day. Funny nah?
I am trying to get my tummy to be in some better shape. So
trying to avoid fried. Oh god, I don’t drink, smoke, no lactose, no potatoes,
no soup and now less fried… Jasmine is so done with me. Plus I don’t like
pulses as well. They too interfere with my digestion. Dal is also doing funny
things. What the hell… I will survive on coconut water now. What say?
But this is the thing that I like about myself. I don’t bother
too much with this. I don’t get too annoyed with all these issues. If I can’t
help these things then what can I do about it. That’s what I try and tell
Jasmine. I can’t help it if I got a weak stomach and a strong brain. Such is
life. You have to make do with the best that you get.
Speaking of strong brains. I am struggling to see strong
brains in the company from the middle lot. They are really really dumb. You get
some amazing talent from the really young guys but there is some serious talent
missing from the middle layer. Possibly they are the ones who ran away because
not much happened while they were here, and the dumb ones got promoted. Now I look
back at my time and wonder if I was seriously underpaid. I was much smarter
than these jokers at that age. Talent is so difficult to nurture and find.
Somewhere because of the policies of the past, people did
not have the courage to break rules and dream big. Organization culture is so
important. Because of an older culture the organisation today is stalled. You have
to break. You have to push and you have to get new blood, new thinking and new
energy into the functions you work. Breaking is an important part of building.
Those who can’t break must be thrown out. Break and burn for new to grow. Chase cute new things and new frontiers, not
try and keep things as they were. The protector role is so glorified in some
places.
I have started writing publicly. We have an emailer that
is sent out to a bunch of prospects every weekend. The new content kid in my
office thinks my writing is kind of cool and effective. She wants me to write
every week. At first I wasn’t sure. But I am getting the hang of writing and
getting my own mojo for the job. I think it’s coming out cool and succinct.
Data seems to suggest that people are reading and clicking and giving us leads
basis the stuff they read. Ok. That’s nice. It’s an awesome feeling to write
and get feedback on it. I want to hone that skill set even more.
