Live the life beyond doubts

In our life we live less and doubt more. We doubt the intentions of people close by, we doubt whether person X is true to me or not, we doubt the capacity of our educational system to provide us knowledge, we doubt the capability of government whom we have chosen, we doubt the world around us, we doubt our boyfriend or girlfriend, we have serious doubt about the real meaning of what a person has said to us even though the person in question is known to us for years. We know the person very closely for years but still instead of understanding the meaning, we will go the simple path- ask him to clarify what he said. Does mere saying something over and again would make that more forceful. Why do we need clarifications even after years of relationship is beyond my comprehension. And in between these doubts we forget to live the life. We don’t even have the time to see the world beyond doubts and enjoy the blessing it has in reserve for us.

who says we learn from history?

Protectionism as a policy is one of those policies which had hurt economies all over the world very severely. But the sad part is people get a feeling that by applying protectionism, government is doing them a favour. Take a recent example of USA government which is putting a condition on bailout companies to take only Americans as their employees (Big story in today’s newspapers on cutting H-1B Visa).

In a way government is saving its people and organizations by providing them a shelter. But what about the cost that the organizations has to take in the form of increased payment (more people would have created an excess of supply and decrease in wages) and loss of quality (less people to select from; leaving talented migrated people), and that too at a time when any organization needs these two things the most.This way USA is protecting economy or digging the hole further?

This reminds me of July ’08 when food prices were on their peak due to shortage of food grains. It so happens that one part of world (which is a significant player in that grain market) may not be able to produce grains due to any reason say drought for argument sake. Now there is a shortage of that particular grain in world market. Prices of that grain starts shooting up and other grains (substitute goods effect) also catch up soon. Countries start feeling scarcity of grains; they tend to go for the policy of protectionism and don’t send their own production out in order to protect their interests. But this creates more scarcity outside and further increase in the prices. Hence other nations also follow the suit (protectionism), and in the process drag market for that commodity into deep trouble. This is exactly what happened which started with Australia where continuous drought for 7 years reduced rice production by around 60-70%. At a time when all economies were supposed to come together and take steps, they were busy in forming protectionism policies for their countries.

Now USA is repeating the same mistake. Who says we learn from history?

we live our life only once...

Each organization has its own culture and a value system inherent in it which you can feel in the people of that organization. For so many years, I have heard a lot about sibm culture but today I felt it. Symbiosis as a culture can be described as a culture of friendship and joy. People here love reaching out to people. One more thing which is entirely visible is love of symbites for their institute even after years. Alumni just love coming to institute to meet even years after years. Today two events ran this sudden streak of thought and brought out the feeling which I was experiencing for a long time. After the Leadership event(a big event consisting of many leaders across sectors), I was outside the campus to bade my friends. We were clicking photos with our cellphone camera. All of a sudden a charming person around the age of 35, with a high quality camera in his hand, who I think was going back, appeared and offered to click our photo. We were all surprised. He clicked the photo, took one of our email ids, and promised to send photo on that id. We all were mesmerized at this gesture, he said- “1992 batch” and walked away. I was so shocked and delighted that I could not even ask the name of our friend.

Also I met one more alumna of symbiosis, priya, a really nice and pretty girl, 2005 batch pass out from scmhrd. One can see the proud of being associated with sybmi in the eyes that young lady. I liked her down to the earth personality and love for symbiosis. She was excited visiting the symbiosis after a long time, interacting with sybmi students. We discussed a whole lot of issues ranging from practibility of curriculum, market conditions, to symbi feeling. “You can recognize any person from symbiosis just by interacting with them for 5 min. That’s what culture is all about. we live our life only once and rest are memories.” – puts priya. Rightly defined. Currently she is working with Standard Chartered here in Bangalore.