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Let’s look at the 9-5 world that most of us live in. Have you ever thought about this statistics? Most of us have an 8 hour work pattern in a day. Now for the lucky few your workplace would be very close to your house, now those are the really lucky ones, the blessed soul. For the rest of us lets say it takes about an hour to travel to work. So that’s two hours of travelling. I know people who have to put in four to 5 hours of travel. And then there are those who wake up at 5 and leave for work by 5 30 or so and by the time they come back its 11. No time for the family and the next day the same ‘Back to the Grind’ routine starts. So for those who take one hour to commute to work its two hours dedicated for the travel. We need to put in at least 8 hours of sleep, let’s take 7 hours as an average. So 17 hours of our day are dedicated to just earning a living. With people who most probably will just remain as colleagues and nothing to do with the personal life. And these 10 hours is what governs most of our decisions. Sad but true isn’t.
If you have a manager who is humane enough to interact on a personal level then you are lucky. Again may be a lucky few, I guess, who are privileged with a good manager. This again is an amazing part of this rat race. You don’t choose your manager; they are just thrown upon you. You are working with a manager for a few years and you think that finally you have figured this guy out and know how to manage him to get your priorities sorted out. Suddenly you walk into the office one day and a lightning jolt hits you from somewhere and its decided that from today onwards Mr. X is no longer your manager and Mr. Y is your manager. So now you spend another 3 years or more or ‘may be never’ trying to figure this guy out. Did you choose this to be part of your life, I guess not. That’s just the way it is. And when this happens this situation takes control over the life that actually matters, your personal life, and those precious 7 hours. You take this frustration out on this ‘7 hours’ of personal life that you have. And you usually end up making a mess of that precious time that you have. Who is the cause of this? Somebody you wouldn’t give a damn about. Why is this so? We are bogged down by that one thing that gives us the income to make our life work. To give your family the basic needs, to cherish those good things that life has to offer. If this stops, your life just comes to a stand still. So we end up having a life where we are not allowed to choose the life we want.
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