Part II:You know you don’t belong to the corporate world when:

• You think your boss takes her job too seriously and you try to explain to her the difference between being serious and being sincere.

• The boss calls a meeting to decide which side of the circle looks better and everyone congratulates the boss for his ingenuity.

• Each day in office is like a milestone and you break it up into digestible pieces of ‘ tea just after coming to office’, ‘tea after coming to office’, ‘tea quite some time after coming to office’, ‘ tea pre lunch break’, lunch break, afternoon tea, ‘pre snack green tea’ and snacks. This is the first time you realise how important breaking up a difficult task into small achievable tasks is.

• You talk to your boss/ colleagues about Passion, Philosophy , Purpose and they correct you with Product, Placement, Promotion and Price.

• You wonder how your dad managed to do the same thing for 25 years of his career and you filled with conflicting emotions of respect for his single minded focus of earning money for the family and disdain for living such a narrow, unidirectional life.

• The office printer assumes an important place in your life and you have never felt as helpless as when the printer icon displays the message ‘the document could not be printed ‘.

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The Art of Being Indifferent

So what is plaguing India now? What is it that is holding the country from lifting the millions from poverty, provide basic education, health infrastructure, drinking water and innumerable other things which we should take as basic requirements of life?

Is it the population? Is it the corruption? Is it the inequitable distribution of wealth? We can also blame the politicians, the caste system, the religious fundamentalism, the lack of reforms right to the grass-root level and so on and so forth.

My point is the single biggest culprit is our apathy, our lack of concern or interest or pure indifference (which we have managed to give a real art form) to any thing which doesn’t affect us or our near and dear ones directly. We tend to forget that anything which goes around comes around and that we have no one to blame but ourselves when the cocoon breaks and we are exposed to a situation where we are the victims and not the bystanders.

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