Musings that Amuse Me.....

Almost all my friends and colleagues agree with each other on this one - Dash is a nice guy. Now what exactly does that mean ? I have heard nice guys finish last. I have not always finished last , but I am one of the best examples of Martina Navratilova s famous quote ' Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with a lot of talent '. That is very unlike me !! Yes, I never said anything nice about myself so far , except cracking some jokes about myself. So, if you are one of the members of the endangered species who reads my blog, you do deserve to know more of myself - I probably killed you by not opening up at all and bottling up my thoughts. So here it goes... 1. I am driven a lot by fear. It is an emotion that overwhelms me all the time. I fear change, I fear new people, new work, anything new. I fear hurting or displeasing others. I fear disagreeing with anyone. I have learnt to handle fear much better of late, but my fear for everything has stopped me from achieving...

Somehow, the word ' Relationship' sounded too personal for the Corporate world. So much so that the Business community used the word 'Professional Networking' to refer to a business relationship. The presence of money brings in a dimension to 'professional networking' that expects us to keep emotions away and evaluate purely in terms of priorities - Revenues, costs, taxes and profit. But, similar to a 'relationship' , professional networking is also built with a lot of effort,keeping commitments and building credibility . Like personal relationship, professional credibility takes years to build and minutes to destroy. However, the rewards of building it are phenomenal. My Boss [Raj Neravati] demonstrated me the power of building a professional relationship last week when we were working on a bid. I should say it was stunning for me to realize that the 'system', 'process' and all the other jargons that denote a pack of humans at work rewar...

How Cruel can Time get !!! It looks like just moments ago that I was in my early twenties, travelling abroad on work, in love, and had all the best things that life could ever give me. At that point of time, I wondered if I ever deserved such lovely things life gifted me. Frankly, I thought I did not. In what seems like minutes, but actually years later, I am alone, in my late thirties, feeling dejected, disappointed, lonely in life and directionless at work ... you name a negative emotion and I seem to go through it. Again, I do wonder if I deserved all this !! Gloom , uncertainity, sorrow seems to have enveloped not just me, but the world in general. Why is true content and happiness so rare these days ? Did we travel so far away from ourselves that we lost our own self ? Life was too kind to me early on - Importantly, I perhaps deluded that life will stay that way,which is perhaps why I feel the pain and grief now, when it takes away all the nice things it gave me - a fantastic car...