Finally I watched Severance. It took me a while. And something in me is wanting me to look at work, both my past, present and future at work and life.

In my career, I have worked with people who came to work just because they could not stand their personal life and relationships. I have also worked with people who worked so much that they found their families to be a burden.

I have worked with people who found work just as a means to survive and I have worked with people who hated their work so much that they remained there just to go home daily and get a weekend off.

I have also worked with people who loved to work with people and came to work daily with a smile and left the work with a smile not just in their face but also others. I have in my career been in all these people’s shoes one time or the other. I have looked at work in many possibilities that it looks like an eternity working and I feel old.

Watching severance I feel how fortunate to remember, to discover oneself. To take work back home and bring our home to the work. Both can at times impede one another, but personally it enables me to exist as a whole. How privileged we are to take life and work back and forth.

Friends from work becoming your friends in life, and vice versa. And we get that one single canvas where we are able to paint our lives. I have been fortunate to not draw a line between work and life.

There are so many people who are successful in the work role but not the life role. Some don’t even know they have failed in a role. Work has been an integral part of our life. Today with technology, the nature of work has also changed.

There is a severance, but not like in the TV show. Not between life and work, but between what we think work is and what work really can be. There are possibilities.

I am in my fifties and I feel excited to go to work. I cannot say I felt the same when I was in my thirties or even forties. In my twenties, I don’t even remember how the world was or how I thought.

The most important duty for leaders, managers, entrepreneurs and anyone who work in a company is to bring joy into work. Joy and excitement and for heaven’s sake don’t try to fake it. Be genuine. Sometimes what we miss in the corporate world is a ‘vulnerable genuineness’.

Some people we know are intolerable self proclaimed geniuses outside while inside they are vulnerable minuses. I am not being mean, but just being honest of our own imperfectness and our incredible ability to put up near perfect fakeness.

Yes, at times we get severed and fail to understand that work can be fun and that there is a sense of enjoyment before anything can become an accomplishment. Sometimes we roam the endless hallways like zombies and when someone genuinely smiles at us, that is enough to reintegrate us back to our own whole self.

That is how my innie and outie start talking to each other. Explore the possibilities of work and life, they give feedback to one another. 😁
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