Sometimes a whole week of work with all its turbulence, confusions, learnings and self reflections finally boils down to a few minutes talk on a Friday and you say “that was a worthwhile week… Not perfect but productive”. And yes you say a Thank You! a big Thank You !

This ‘Thank You’ can be to someone specific or it could be in general to anyone I have agreed and disagreed with over the week….

I had my frustrations burst open in a Safe environment this week and I acknowledge that having such Safe environments are a professional privilege.

I know we live in a world where achievements and overachievements are celebrated. And they should be. But how did a day go by, how did a week go by, did people truly matter to us as a human beings. These are also important questions.

The quote that has come to me many times over and over in the last few months through what I read and listen is “How We Spend Our Days Is of course How We Spend Our Lives”

I searched and found that it was by Annie Dillard in “The Writing Life”. I have not read it. Now I need to buy it.

But I have put a hold on ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek’ and ‘For the time being’ and ‘Teaching a stone to speak’ and ‘Give it all, Give it now’ at my local library.

Here is what she says in ‘A Writing Life’ Thanks to Goodreads

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are doing. A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.”

Regards
Vinod!