Circle of Life
Padma Bhamidipati
Associate Vice President - Learning | Driving Learning Engagement
RIP V.G. Siddhartha. Wednesday blues were rude today! For many, CCD redefined collaborations, conversations and connections in so many ways. And yet if we, the self anointed armchair commentators, peel the last few moments, months of your life, you probably yearned for that all important conversation with someone to give you the strength in the moment of extreme vulnerability.
All this at a time when the conversations around mental health have reached a crescendo. The need to be vulnerable, to show the chinks in the armour and yet emerge as an able leader, seems so distant as I reflect on the news and the literature I have been consuming. Where is the mechanism to check this vulnerability? The strong need for a competent ear. Those in dire straits may not ask or visibly show, but the need exists. The need to be protected behind a wall of confidence of one person or a string of folks who become your Go To!
There are lows, the need to vent like the players in a competitive sport, the need to be heard if something is not working, without being judged. Personally I have visualized the scene from METRO (the Hindi movie Irfan Khan, Konkona, Shilpa Shetty) - Irfan Khan takes Konkona to the roof and says scream your lungs and watch the stress go. It has played out so many times in my head but I have not done it, yet. Because can we? There are so many options and avenues available, that you may probably dissing the idea, right now. But maybe some can't. Such folks are real. How do we reach out to them?
I don't know. I am not attempting to give an answer when I can't get the life back. But this struck a chord. There is a need for that circle, the circle of life, in all our lives. Those who will remind you to breathe, slow down and smell the coffee.
Kaapi Nirvana please, as I set forth to make amends with my squad...the circle of life!
Thank you for reading my ramblings!
take care maadi... when u r back in namma blr, will join you on the top floor for the shout out :-)
L&D | Program Management | Design Thinking |Executive Coach
5 年The world is too much with us...good intentions burst to the fore with the 'death of an entrepreneur'... But will settle with the complacent grind of the mundane. There is no instrument to pulse track the tumult within unless we've taken time to build rapport and invest in the relationships...but then the world is too much with us...where's the time. It may just be these 'ramblings' Padma...which will make one 'slow down and smell the coffee' and then there's the hope that ' a lot can happen...
Business Development Manager at Infosys
5 年Thanks for comprehending the underlying issue so effectively. All we need is to spare sometime for people around us and lend our ear to them. In this era of hyper-connectivity we are somewhere losing the human touch which is as simple as just listening to someone in distress without being judgemental.