Rrrrnnnnnggggg…….
The phone rang shattering that dream… I said myself, ‘Who the f**k is that?’
Hello…
Ya Hello…
It was my friend.
What’s up man? I asked
Hey it’s snowing heavily outside. Just have a look at the outside world through your window.
I said Ok and disconnected the call.
Today was my first ‘The White Day’ in life. ‘A beautiful morning with city being covered with sheets of snow, showcasing its power to erode away all your worries’ I could see my friends playing with snow, throwing it at each other, trying to find out the exact dimension and shape of the fall and frequently asking each other about ‘Why the shape being like that?’. As I watched them being so expressive and happy, one of my friends rushed to me and made a statement, ‘You are not enjoying your life’.
Nope, you are wrong. I immediately replied.
On the way to office, the same question was haunting me. ‘Why the hell people think that I am not enjoying my life?’
What is enjoyment in generic terms?
What you have to be in order to make people feel that you are happy?
Retrospect drove me into a basket of further more questions?
‘What’s my happiness?’
I could easily conclude that, it’s the approach of using rationality made me happy always.
But why people have a different attitude towards rationalist people?
Rationalism prompts people to think all the activities in terms of numbers or derived practicality. When one side of the world calls for looking life and its difficulties through irrational eyes, very few could solve those problems irrationally. If driven with a constant effort to think people to come up with solutions for day today problems, all solutions directly or indirectly pin point or slide into the mentioned segment.
So now the question arises, what is the optimal point where these two approaches take deviation? I could figure out that the success of a person or an organization lie in the extent to which he or it can separate these two approaches. The more you separate these two with in an individual or an organization, the more successful he or the organization appears to the outside world. When I mention that ‘it appears to the outside world’, there is a significant point to the grabbed from that. But the same could not shed any light on the state of an organization or person irrespective of the way it appears to the outside world.
This statement could easily provoke anyone to ask a question. Does success or happiness needs to be showcased? Doesn’t success or happiness proclaim itself that ‘Only Success can hide successes?
You are absolutely correct. Success or happiness need not be show cased. But success or happiness doesn’t have the power to showcase themselves when the definition varies dramatically. This is where the point I mentioned about the separation comes into picture. So separation seems to make an organization or a person look like one among every other just because the rate of variation in rationality seems to be too high compared to the variation in irrationality. The more a person separates rational approach at any point of time; it seems he is one among us.
In contrast to the way you are born with irrationalism, most of the time rationalism is enforced in you by external factors. One of the contributing factors can be the surroundings in which you were brought up, for example many people who are brought up in a business family tent to think rationally than the people who are brought up in a rich agricultural family.
In simple words, these two approaches should be adopted to be applied from opposite sides rather than preferring to be mixed up and sorted out when each problem arises.
May be the incorrect separation of both, is leading people to think that I am unhappy.
Or may be……
Hey Vimal, you have to get down at this stop.
Oh! So fast!
Ya, you were dreaming. Stupid dreamer! By the way where is your book?
Ya, I finished that.
Good, get a new one, otherwise you may get down at the next BOSCH office tomorrow.
Ya, that’s true.
With a self imposed statement I reluctantly logged into to attend my daily status meeting.
‘May be those one percent of rationalists might be responsible for the happiness of at least fifty percent of the people in this world’
