I My position
My colleagues in USS would
remember this picture very well. I discussed this during my presentation on the
systems thinking at the Bhopal meeting on the 7th of June 2015. This
picture has made me think about my own self from different angles?
In the picture above a little
girl is stretched and bent to fit into a cubicle box. She has fitted herself so
well. Almost like a toy made up of some rubber or such other flexible material.
In some-ways she also looks proud of her achievements (notice her expressions
in her eyes! isn’t she try to convey something?). She appears to me as if
saying silently, “I have done it”
Perhaps, (my assumption here) she
is a circus artist, and she has trained her body (ever since she managed to
walk) to get into such a box like situation. Hence due to the flexibility of
the body and training she has been able to do this act.
Now, the title of the page says, “I
my position”. Hence it signifies that whatever position I have taken in this
world is accurate, perfect and astounding. There is no other truth and reality.
My truth is real in the world
Now how interesting is that!
On many occasions in my life I
have made blunders, mistakes due to this frame of mind. Ever since I was a
child, I feel, I have stayed inside this box. School education made me operate
inside a box, college education made me operate inside a bigger box, university
education made me operate in a still larger box!
When I say this, I recall that elders in my
family expected me to top my class in my academics (something that I never did!)
though I was good at so many other things (games, sports, quiz, debates,
extempore creative writing etc,). By the time, I started doing well in
academics, I realised I gave up pursuing every other thing. I had to prepare
for the job market. My preparations for
the job market, competitive exams killed many of the inner talents that I had
as a child. I think this is a classic case with most of you too, when you had
to choose between doing “a job” and pursuing something that you love doing. Isn’t
it?
My elders operated from inside
the box. I too operated from inside it.
How I wish now I had this perspective long back.
My thoughts, my belief systems, my
philosophies, my ideologies (or idiosyncrasies/pagalpanti), my feelings, my
world etc. Absolutely, no space for other view point. I have lost precious
moments of my life due to this feeling of staying inside this box..
Mind you, this box is self-created.
Nobody gives it to you as a birthday present or otherwise. The irony is we
create this box around ourselves and seal it so perfect that we become
extremely comfortable in it. The world looks beautiful.
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