Saturday, November 17, 2007

Smile!

A friend of mine owns a recruitment agency. One fine day he called up an applicant to know his expectations from the employer. The applicant said: I stay in Kandivali, I need a job in call center as a TL, I’m right now working as an agent, no night duties, pickup and drop to my place, located nearby my house & offering Best salary. My friends reply was: there is a company named XYZ which is going to open right-in-front of your house, the company will pick up & drop, no night duties and will may you good. As soon as the company opens, you will be appointed as TL! Unfortunately, we know such a company will never open.

All of us have seen couples who keep fighting about everything all the time. We know those who complain about every little thing now and then. Those with great expectations from themselves or the others. They want everything to be ideal. They keep fighting for something that does not exist: Bloody Perfection. This post is dedicated to all the every unhappy victims of perfectionism. Ironically, the frustrating problem with perfectionists is that they always feel imperfect, incomplete & unsatisfied. Even when everything is absolutely all right. May god (if any)… save us from the perfectionism.

But there is a sensible set of people whom I like from the bottom of my heart:
They are happy about the job as they don’t expect everything from the employer
They are happily married/committed as they know ‘the ideal match’ doesn’t exist
They have happy children as the child is not forced to live their parent's dreams
They are happy about life as they can focus on problems without being crabby
I’m happy with them as they don’t expect me to change and vice versa.
They know life is give and take
They know a secret to smile; they know life is a compromise