Viraj was having a great day at work. He had been working hard every day with the right kind of optimism. His work had been praised. The increments were announced, and despite being told to keep it a secret, word did go around, sometimes the mail itself was a show and tell. Viraj was happy with what he had got, he thought it was fair.
Viraj’s colleague Jatin walked over rather confidentially towards Viraj, he interrupted Viraj amidst the work, took out his smartphone and unlocked it. Then he turned the screen towards Viraj showing the increment mail.
Viraj had no choice but to read reluctantly, and his eyes fell on the numbers. There was a sound within. The optimism, it was becoming harder by the second to hold on to it, the positivity was flowing out like water between fingers.
Everyone knew Jatin knew someone in the higher ups, but this guy, who never completed his target, took holidays for no reason, was caught multiple times watching videos on his smartphone. How could he get a higher raise?
Viraj picked up the glass of water on his table and splashed it all on Jatin’s face while everyone watched in shock but only in imagination. There was no glass of water to begin with. Viraj smiled and Jatin walked away, the company lost the dedication and hard work of a good employee that day, maybe forever.
Our thoughts have a direct influence on the kind of approach we have to things. While we are on this life’s journey, our thoughts can make us feel great and they can also make us feel like the colours have faded away in a moment.
While not everything is under our control, we can have those moments that we are sure of that they will mostly bring out a good thought or two. For Rachit that moment was differently placed.
Some of us have a habit of snoozing down the alarm for the next ten minutes, it’s not just the sleep, it becomes a habit, sometimes it takes one snooze, and on some tired morning two. Rachit took three and the third one was not for sleep, it was for thoughts, the clear minded thoughts, recollection of important occurrences of the past, putting the remember mark on the important learning, throwing out the unwanted out of mind, reducing the importance given to something where it is not needed while putting something truly essential in priority.
Rachit felt this was the time when he did the most important task of his day. I frankly found it amazing only thinking about how he was able to separate his mind from the watch and having to begin with his work because that is what I used to wake up with, but recently I have started to blend it with other thoughts as well. Afterall life is much more to be contained within a few habitual thoughts.
Written by Anuran Chatterji
Early Morning Memories 