More than a quarter of the year has passed and things seem to still stand where they are. The passing, or shall i say flying, of time makes one feel how insignificant we are. In the big huge universe, we are mere speck of dust leasing sometime to spend here.
In entertainment parlance, what relevance does a hit movie play in context of a decade? How does it matter if about a sporting great in the context of a century. Who cares about the veracity of a town in the context of multiple centuries. From this perspective, everything becomes relative.
To make someone understand the importance of a milli second, we refer to a person who met with an accident which could have been averted by a split second. Similarly, to make one realise the futility of a particular incident, refer to a century.
How relevant is that Monday morning presentation in the context of a decade. Do you remember what were you presenting in 2006? No one does!
Think, this is the best possible living example of Einstein’s theory of relativity. The importance, or lack of it, is purely determined by the frame of reference.
lets say, Completing the task in hand is of utmost priority right now. Right then, you get a call from a friend who has just met with an accident and needs your help. Will the task still be of the same importance?
Of course, for some, even a ping on Facebook would disrupt the priority order.
Enough said. I am sure by now you have decided the importance to place on reading such write-ups.
It is already 12:30 on the clock! Now with this context that i am made aware of, sorry but this write up takes a lower priority. I have a presentation to work on!
Until next time!
Such is life. There are always so many things that can be done, but just not enough time to accomplish them all. What does one do then? Just accept that there is never going to be enough time and go on with life?
If New Year is so sacred, I have always wondered why people drown themselves in liquor to bring the year. Are the party revelers so scared of the New Year, that they prefer ringing it in an intoxicated frame of mind?
Talking about Business travel, a necessary part of today’s corporate life. When did someone close a deal, or influence a new investment over a phone? Video Conference you say? Well, that is just a glamorous way of seeing different people across the geography and deciding on when to meet next to close it. Please don’t even try suggesting the phone. These have long been abandoned even by the College lovers. They prefer facetime!
Post B-School I have always used the company laptop, and have stayed within its restrictions. The company laptop more often than not is a good configuration of some boring make and has genuine good computing power. But well, it is of little use personally as any attempt to install any software (even the innocent age old winamp) would prompt a window to open – “Please enter administrator password”.
I was looking forward to the Sunday morning which I had scheduled to setup the laptop. Ah yes, forgot to mention here that the all-powerful Computer administrator emptied the entire harddisk before handing it over. So it had to be built from scratch. No issues baby. Get on the OS and ola! The machine would start galloping.
Nopes! Still the same error message. I try restarting multiple times with various combinations of function keys. Nopes. That is not the solution. I get back to my new office laptop and google a little more and try different combinations again. No success. In the frustration and haste I end up permanently deleting a folder on my office laptop. And now I am googling “how to restore a permanently deleted folder”.