And, it is the resolution
week of the year! Before beginning, let me wish you all a healthy, peaceful
2018 ahead. Let us strive hard to understand each other’s differences and
maintain a less – strained relationship, forego jealousy and hatred and
escalate the humanity within us to make the world and days to come a great one!
Most of us, brood over the
insults of past and would complain/keep
complaining the bad things that have happened to us. But this year, for me,
began in a different way. I met a game changer woman at my workplace who by her actions, taught me to
think differently.
On the first working day
of 2018, as we quenched our screaming tummy with yummy food and warmed up our
fingers with a cup of hot cocoa, we started talking about ‘women at workplace’.
Trust me, it was not at all a gossip. But, it was about the different
challenges that most of the women face, differently, in the workplace and how should those challenges be
overcome.
We were sharing our
challenges that we were then facing: having an 18 month old baby at home who was
close to being sick, being robbed in a foreign land, searching for a new career
opportunity with a ViSa sponsored, writing a couple of research articles, and
the list went on and on for every one of us, personally and professionally. When I was feeling low about my ‘relocation’
process and letting go of a promising
career (which I always loved to take up) that I would have had, if I had stayed
here, I understood, I am not alone!
Having an 18 month old baby
girl at home, my colleague travels to her workplace,
completes her job responsibility and gets back home to be a beautiful mother in
her 40’s and yet, she is so positive and inspiring. “You are worthy of
more than what you can comprehend,” she says. “Show your denial, if it is
reasonable, with a smile. Being bold is beautiful definitely takes a lot of
bravery,” she smiled. I was astonished by the positivity she carried with her
and the aspirations she was thrusting upon all of us. I thought, at that
moment, ‘when a multi-challenge – facing
– women like her can smile so gleefully, why not me?’ That was her impact on me. That was when I realized, being bold with a smile, matters!
She was the one who
suggested #365gratefuldays, which I am currently posting on my social media feed. The concept is, to be
grateful for the small things around us, spreading cheer and positive vibes.
Down the lane, when we look back, we shall have umpteen number of things to be
glad for.
When I thought of whatever
I ‘complain’ about, they are actually challenges in disguise and everyone has their own shares, fairly measured
and bestowed upon them to face. Well, I am no mother of an infant and a teen
yet but will definitely be one, in times to come. And, at that time of my life,
I will be having added responsibilities to what all I have now. I can’t escape from
those responsibilities. When I pondered over, again and again, the thirty
/forty minutes of conversation with her, all I understood was these: a) When we
start counting the blessings that are in small forms as well, we will stop
complaining the negativity. b) It is okay to say NO for an answer provided you are reasonable and honest to your own
self. c) Fight for injustice but know
what you are fighting for. Not to forget, fight with a smile and not with a
curse, which most of us do not do (including me).
Let us stop arguing over
the ‘last seen status’, ‘who is great’, ‘who is better’ and all those profanely
insane questions and start living a life of substance, knowing our worth,
acknowledging the small happiness, spreading positivity and embracing humanity!
Cheers!
Again, Happy 2018!
Lots of Love,
Riya ©
Ps: Thanks Semanti !
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