Wednesday, 5 March 2008

The fine line

It is weird but we all go through this! Atleast I think we all do and I definitely do!

And that is this eternal question of whether " I am doing too much of too few or too little of too many."

And the question has no one right answer!

It is a constant turmoil that haunts me all the time and causes me to sometime discontinue things that I was so passionate about before, things that I stood very strongly for. But today I find myself not so keen and don’t do it at all.

This is a complex dynamic decision based on current and future commitments, current time availability, the constantly changing priorities, ad hoc work that comes up, boredom with existing things that you have been doing and so on.

And this question will like a non-linear optimization align how much time and effort spent on how many number of things in line with the above stated parameters. To make it more complex, all you need to add is the whims and fancies of the person that you are.

See it is so complex that you don’t know what is right and what is wrong! And for someone to judge you at this point and say you are lazy, or you don’t have your priorities right and all that is not correct. Like I was telling P today, never judge a person wearing you shoes, I used to do it, today I don’t, I would have lost out on a lot of very good friends of mine if I had continued to be so judgmental. I am still opinionated but I don’t judge people so harshly anymore and I am so much more open.

Also, I am open to change, much more than ever before and I can understand if people's priorities change. When priorities change, the " I am doing too much of too few or too little of too many" question pops up and you change things you are doing. Don't judge someone as wrong when this change happens for this change was bound to happen and it did, whether you like it or not.

1 comment:

arjun said...

you have stretched the fine line too far that it has become blurred.. I am totally confused at the end, what were you saying again?...
Just kidding, i have had that feeling many times, there is a "why?" at the end of each thought, only if one could answer it..