I have come to realize that much of what I do is not that important in the large scheme of things. But I need to do them as I am alive and truth be said there is nothing much for me to do other than that. 

On top of that I enjoy doing them…. Well some of them… But that in itself is worth it…

I am taking a 2 day off so I can unwind… But I am unsure what I am Unwinding from. My unwinding also happens at work.. In a way I am privileged…

But it is summer and it is a time we do things differently. I want to take 2 days off for work…

What does that mean..? Taking 2 days off for work… How do you take time off for work…?

Here is how I see it. I have a work I love… I also get pushed to my limits.. that I need a break from so I can do my work better.. 😁 

I learn a lot and I become a better person.. I become a better person by revealing the worst of me.. Yes that is the privilege… But I owe that to the people I work with… They make working worth it…

I love it… And I mean it… If you ask me.. At this point I would not want to work anywhere else… 

But yes at times we all wish we had a different life… We all do.. We are all the alternatives of the lives we did not get to live… 😜

The alternative lives that are within my reach are in media, movies and education… But I choose this for a range of reasons… We cannot be everything we want but we can try everything….

This is how work manifests when it excites and challenges us… It gives us what we want…

Today I was started work late.. At 8:15AM morning.. Usually I am in office at 7:00 AM… But today I had a poetry reading.. And I read 3 poems… The titles were

– Writers mean harm
– Silence is a Conspiracy
– Tears demand respect

I could not read more but if time had permitted I would have read

– Words in a burned paper
– Being Good
– Meeting my mortician 

Reading can happen another day…

Evening I had to update a status and send a slack message. It was 5:30 PM… A colleague came over to my desk and we got into a room to chat.

We discussed how we can be better and in the process how the company we work for can benefit from it. Yes in that same order… First we and then the company…

We spoke till 7:10 PM… I am not saying that it is a great thing.. There are so many people working late into the night… The question is does that effort enhance us… For me it does… And I had two reasons..

One… I thought the conversation made us both better human beings… Two I think that the time spent will add value to the work we do now and in the future 😁

We all need a philosophy of work… And mine need not be identical to yours…

This is a slice of my philosophy…. Will I change my philosophy if I lose my job tomorrow. Absolutely Not… 

The happiness in the present is the only fact we have… 🙏

Regards
Vinod!