The High Impact Variable

What is noteworthy is the resilience with which we clinged to our usual timetables and clawed onto our mundane habits. A cup of coffee or tea in the morning with colleagues, the usual group chat to spearhead a productive day and encapsulation of deliverables, the precise discussions about updates and performance drivers followed by the mechanical flow of work and procedures throughout the day. What we forgot in our life's default equation was the intensity and severity with which the constants in our lives are jolted once a High Impact Variable hits our self created safe precincts.?

We didn't just coincidently bump into a pandemic... We fatefuly intercepted some mind boggling reality checks. We halted for some reflection... We looked around at our existence, felt the worth of dear ones....

Who matters, who we didn't get in touch with. Watching the news often revealed goose-bumps inducing dooms day sneak peak. We witnessed deaths, we couldn't attend funerals of. We heard of ailments and pain, we couldn't visit to enquire about... We heard how weddings were called off.?

As a matter of fact, this one variable dictated and disrupted our lives in tangential ways to our streamlined and carefully stipulated routine sine curves. The mere manifestation of us not being in control clearly identified how we may just plan as per our wishes, the execution is never in our predominance. We learnt how nature has its own intricate pattern for us to determine the rationale to deal with the encumbent situation and resort to faith.?

The gravity of how we feel for other relationships pulled our self established charades to the ground, divulging our needs and insecurities... How we overweighed the importance of every week day over a weekend. That stride across Monday to Friday seemed a struggle and challenge, while the weekend seemed to be a long awaited reward to calibrate back to life.... Was it really work life balance? It was merely surviving... Not living.?

Time to recalibrate the pursuit to quench the ever unsatisfied thirst for more. Time to Reflect, Restore, Refresh, Relish, Remember and Reverberate. Time to make the most of what we have in hands while we assume plans. Time to care, collaborate and show concern. Time to come together in letter and spirit and realize importance of what really matters. Time to be positive and grateful.?

We will be back with changes, changed for the better. Let's learn from this high impact Variable to ensure our constants are strengthened to the core.

Let's value life and create value for others.