Red Signal - Follow the rules
Today morning as I was driving to work , I suddenly spotted a red signal. As per the rules I stopped. But as I did, I notice a string of cars just stepping up the pedal and speeding by me.
Since there was a minute to go before the red turned green and being the only passenger in my car, I quickly entered the world of imagination.
First thoughts - Not all car drivers were in a state of emergency, not all cars followed the first one to break the rule, what if this trespassing had led to an accident, am I a fool to be waiting since I also have to reach my destination and the sooner the better and many more...........
But I suddenly noticed a car drive besides mine and stop. Here arrived another fool like me I thought.
Guess what ............The car was that of a driving school and the guy in the driver's seat was learning to drive. That is where I thought of writing this article.
Is our life pretty much like that. What we were taught while we were young, does it hold good even today. Do we follow the rules only when we are learning the process or are rules for life? Do we change the way we play a game once we understand the basics and know how the game is played.Do we create our own rules once we master an act.
Whether it is our family,friends,acquaintances, people at work or any other bunch of people we deal with in our life - do we even realise if we are going wrong while interacting with them or is it taken for granted.
Do we need a cop to penalise us, do we need an accident to occur, do we need to wait for a car whose driver is learning to drive to stand besides us.
Are we driving the car of life by the rules that we were taught or are we creating our own rules and thinking we can never go wrong.
Take a moment to ponder - DRIVE SAFELY !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Assistant General Manager at CBRE
5 年Harshad it's not that we forgot or forego rules that were thought to us but it's the overconfidence of knowing how to manipulate the rules of the game. Everyone expects the others to follow the rules but the one who follows them no matter what others think of him and stand for maintaining the rules by becoming exemplary model "not for the world atleast for his family or specifically children " is the real hero...
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8 年Keep it up.
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8 年Emerging Good Writer...
Global practice lead, Solution architect, offering development, service delivery, cloud build and manage, data and analytics, generative Ai
8 年Harshad, your are not the only one.... FOOL as people call us.. I follow every traffic signal even in the night hours when there is really no rush as no one is expected to reach home on time you see... I get the smirks the fingers etc... when the so called smart a*****e overtake you while blazing the horns like their a** is on fire!!!! I just believe we do our bit and the other educated (not literates) souls will follow the suit.
HR & Business Consultant | Helping SMEs Build Scalable HR Systems
8 年Harshad Assoldekar, the rules we learnt, are broken not because they don't hold true anymore...in fact they do but because we are in hurry...God only knows for what. People have become so self centred now that these rules don't matter anymore...they only stop when they see a visible threat to their safety and the urgency is so high that they end up creating a massive jam which prevents anyone from moving ahead. Teamwork, patience, win win are more of the keywords for training purpose. Why i say this is because many of these people in HURRY belong to this category who are well educated and trained professionals