Why Mr.Perfect does not impress me ?

Disclaimer : This post is not about Aamir Khan who has unwittingly acquired the title of 'Mr.perfect', so i am sorry to disappoint some of you.

When you enter the corporate world,the first few days feel like 'alice in wonderland'.Mammoth stuctures all around, office space sprawling over 70,000 sq. feet. Men and women walking around wearing tailor-made suits. You look at everything around you in awe, and you are immediately tempted to believe that you have landed in a perfect setting for your potential and aspirations.

When you are introduced to your manager,you are struck by their charm, confidence,intelligence and various innate qualities they might possess. You look at them in awe,and you are immediately tempted to believe that you want to be 'just like your manager', in fact you would do anything to switch places with them.

I wish to coin a word for this behaviour, lets call it 'the Corporate Syndrome'. We all suffer from the 'Corporate Syndrome' irrespective of whoever we are. 'Corporate Syndrome' is a universal phenomenon and manifests itself in various forms, just think about it.
People suffer from the 'Corporate Syndrome' all their lives,the worst part is they believe it is the way of life.

Fortunately,an antidote for this syndrome does exist.
Alain de botton is partially right in his TED talk :
"Mostly, our ideas of what it would mean to lead a successful life are not our own,they are sucked in from other people,from parents to television to print media,these are hugely powerful forces which define/claim to know what we want and how we view ourselves. We should make sure our ideas of success are truly ours, we must focus inwards,rather than focussing outwards because the realization at the end of the day, that the ambition we have been pursuing all along was not really our own ambition, can be really crushing."

I strongly feel it is high time that we as a society stopped 'creating idols' and 'role-models' because frankly there is nobody such as an ideal person. I have always believed that everyone is unique in their own ways, that everybody has been gifted with unique attributes,and thus everyone's quest or meaning of life on this earth should also be unique. If you really want to be successful, find out what your original quest is.


Love you all !

So, what did we learn from L.K.ADVANI ?

I am not a great fan of L.K.Advani, but i think there is something to learn from every person and especially a person who has managed to influence indian politics for more than 3 decades.

I have always believed a man is defined by the questions that he asks of himself and his life is but a sum of his quest to seek answers to those questions, a quest to discover himself and that ‘drive’ lasts as long as the man himself.

This fact was re-inforced in what L.K.Advani -(co-founder of the BJP) said in his farewell speech before he stepped down as ‘leader of the opposition’ :

“jo log kehte hain ki yatri rath se utar gaya, toh main unko yeh bata dun ki meri yatra jeevan bhar ki yatra hai, jo maine 14 saal ki umr mein shuru ki thi aur joh kabhi khatam nahin hone waali".

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