Today's post is thanks to my friend Srinath Varadarajan.
The world's progress today has brought with it extreme oddities. Among the myriad oddities is the feeling of work pressure. Many (ambitious) young men and women find themselves fighting the desire to sleep, play, socialize, enjoy...because they have an all important project to complete. Myself and Srinath are no different. We can vouch for work pressure any day. In the context of modernism, I ask : Is such work pressure to be respected ? Is it something to be fought ? Or should we attach zero importance to it and consider it to be not there at all in the first place ?
As a personal take on pressures at the workplace, I say that they have to be accepted as part of modernization. You cannot have the cake and eat it two, right ? Then you cannot say that I want the world to move ahead at the speed of light, but I am not willing to work for it. So, if there is work pressure today, It is only intangible evidence that modernism is alive and kicking. Remember a simple truth : You are not struggling in vain. There is a movement, and that is in the direction of progress and progress alone.
Having said that, I must also say that work pressures and self torture are NOT synonymous. Work pressure is an indicator of modernism, not a side-effect. Real success is possible when that all important "balance" of work and life is achieved. Some of us are able to achieve it successfully, some of us are not. What I feel is such an attainment is not really important as long as you are doing your work. If you are able to achieve it, fine. If not, relish the fact that you are a crusader - and the fact is visible to the entire world.
Modernism is struggle. Struggle is modernism.
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what you are saying about work pressure is true.. actually a lot of ppl say they cannot take pressure or they dont want to be pressurized in life predominantly associating the same to work. But think of it this way, there is always a pressure in life in all walks, family, education, competition or work. we all handle pressure in one way or the other in one scenario or the other, yet our small minds associate pressure with work alone.
given an opportunity, nobody will work.... thats why it looks so pressurizing
:)
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