Being Aware

Though freely moving around the world, we are caged by the burdens of every day life that we fail to see the beauty around us. Most of us are so engrossed in ourselves that we don’t even have time to see rather become aware of the things around us. We don’t have to go to exotic places to find nature’s beauty, just need to aware of the simple things around us like feeling the gentle breeze, enjoying drizzle from the window, watching the men at work etc . These things are not something new, these were the same things that we used to be interested and enjoy when we were kids. And we don’t need to become a philosopher or poet to enjoy these things, just need to bring out the ‘child’ in us. As a quote goes -“There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."

Our daily routine runs on a time table we had set for ourselves. Unfortunately, even the breaks are strictly defined. This routine is so ingrained in our sub-conscious mind, that we do it even without actually being aware of it. In the process of automating the manual task at our work to make our life easier, we have automated our ‘personal’ routine, that we made our life so life-less!! It just keeps running until we interfere. Take a break and just be aware of things around us and enjoy them. These small breaks provide the ‘oiling’ to run the system better.

Sometime when things don’t work out and when life seems be too monotonous or dry, these are few things that we can fall back on for a break instead of breaking ourselves!! Let’s not bury the child-like spirit in us.

Acknowledge the ‘lesser’ people

There are people whom we ‘see’ regularly during routine work – shopkeeper we regularly visit, the auto-Walla at the stand, the receptionist, the office boy, security guy at the office, cleaners etc. These are few categories of people whom we see everyday but not really ‘aware’ of. They do a very monotonous job quietly for us but which may/may not directly impact us.

Just take the case of a security guy working in your organization. You pass by him and see him everyday but really don’t make a conscious effort to notice him and you just go your way. This person does a very monotonous job of standing there around the same place with none to talk. It’s definitely not motivating to stand in one place literally doing nothing. We don’t need give a motivational talk, but why not smile and say ‘hi’ to him? It doesn’t cost anything! This could be the best way we could acknowledge a person doing a ‘lesser’ job than us. This will definitely create a positive impact on him. I say this from a personal experience.

We are fortunate to be where we are. There are lot of people out there doing ‘lesser’ job. Just acknowledging them may increase their self-worth and could even motivate them.

Networking with peers, colleagues, bosses at workplace could enhance our career growth. But just acknowledging people doing ‘lesser’ job will definitely go a long way in building up human relationships!