SO BAD THE SITUATION?
A
very qualified young man , who had been well-employed for many years, lost his
job a year ago. I met him yesterday, and I was surprised: he hasn’t still found
another!
This young man is in his late
thirties… Not married yet. Though lives in his parental house, he needs a job to
run the house… I wondered as to how he could manage!
As I was talking to him, the
young man gave me at least half-a-dozen reasons as to why he was not getting a
job, now: the job market was bad; the Companies were down-sizing; they were not
ready to pay what he was demanding; the previous Company bosses and colleagues were
conspiring against him; the prospective employers were asking him to take up
assignment at a place not of his choice; he wasn’t getting the job of his
taste… timings; salary; people… etc., etc.
Fair
enough. Still, for almost a year, a young, qualified man not getting a decent
job under the Sun was not something that I was able to digest easily. Something
was wrong the way this young, qualified and experienced man looked at himself, others
and Life.
I was neither a professional adviser, nor was any advice solicited from me. On the contrary, for those
fifteen minutes or so, I was given strong justifications as to why there were
no jobs in the market… why there was something wrong, ‘there – outside’!
After the young man left, I began
to think. I was not convinced by his
justifications – which, any way, would never ever help change the reality for
him. I knew, there was something wrong, ‘here – inside his mind’! … Yes, the
way he looked at himself, at others… and Life.
I wish to end this Post without
getting into any ‘postmortem’ of this case… For now, I just want to leave you
with the thought, which I have just presented. I will do it, once again:
“There was something wrong,
‘here – inside his mind’! …
Yes, the way he looked at himself,
at others… and
Life!”
And, to what I said thrice in this Post, may this ancient wisdom be added, too:
"All things in Life manifest twice:
Once, inside... and, once, outside!"
GERALD D’CUNHA
Pics.: Hariprasad
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