Chosen detention

Monday mornings are a pain,managers are monsters, traffic an Everest and home a mess. In a nutshell life is just a drag. One is doing things because one is supposed to do them. But, Of course one enjoys on Saturdays and Sundays.

When I was a child I had always wanted to become a singer. I remember me, with two of my best friends, rehearsing in front of virtual audience after school hours. One of my friends wanted to become an astronaut and the other a pilot. I have never come across a child who expressed a desire to become the CEO of a big multinational company. Now, most of us aspire the same: a higher salary and a secured job is all that we are driven to. What changes our dreams and aspirations so drastically? What brings down our focus from high dreams to moderate achievable goals?

Scientists say that almost every child is born with superior intelligence. But, the tragedy of human civilization is that only one Einstein evolves in centuries. This garden is full of identical grass weeds with very few coincident roses. 99% from us choose socially acceptable apparently secured work profiles than individualistic interesting ones. And even though we praise individualists, we choose herd mediocrities for ourselves. Deep inside we are keener in following than leading: following an Obama, following a Bill gates, following an Einstein.

But, when one follows and adopts solutions from others, the validity of solutions is lost. Our unreasonable clinging to answers turns them into bigger questions again. Industrial revolution was an answer for great depression. Our obsession with it is slowly turning into a historical problem. Man is working like robots without thinking, without dreaming, without living.

We are holding tight to our age old ship that is punched with holes everywhere. Life is all about building new ships and going for newer expeditions. And, easy tried solutions are not always the appropriate ones. If one is born unique one should live unique. A prototype life is irreparable waste.

Recession-Another opportunity for profiting employers

Recession has turned the job market upside down, and employers are making most of it. Be it in the name of cost cutting or organization restructuring, employees are being sacked and sent on forced leave recklessly, rendering them clueless. And the system appears more to be a human juicer squeezing all fitness from the dependents. In such a case government's concern for the unemployed is questionable.

In a system where every person has hands in other's pocket and eyes on others assets, companies have planned a virtual circle of a collective pocket so they extract more from employees separate pockets. You sack and I hire the same employee at much less salary. Where on one side the companies are hastily sacking its employees, on the other side the same companies are posting newer vacancies for the same profiles. Too many fish in the job sea and it is a perfect catch. Baffled employee is left with no option but to accept whatever is offered.

Convincing and gold polished empty words work no more. When the time has come system is a butcher shop with absolutely no place for values and emotions. And the worst part is that all of it seems to go so smooth. Another silk cover on bleeding wounds and we wait until it turns into gangrene. There is no time for little sins, for desired attention there has to be huge downfall. We wait for mass suicides and increased crimes. Then authorities come in picture cutting rotten parts from the system.

One of my friends, who was a part of the bunch of 130 employees that was sacked without even a day's notice, checked all options but resorting to legal advice. What is the use of such protective system where the ones for whom it is established themselves are afraid of it?

This article is yet to complete as we wait for a brighter sun to shine: Wait for ethics to revive and, systems to become responsible enough not only for themselves but also for the masses surrounding them.