The Status Quo trap!
There is no place more comforting than the domicile called ' status quo '. As is, where is, comforted by impasse, numbed by inaction, distanced from initiative and delinked from responsibility.
Status quo is very powerful, way more than we can imagine. And left to our own devices, many of us would fail to go where we hope to.
The one place that defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status is ' bureaucracy '.
But, the riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo. Ronald Reagan once quoted " Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in ”.
Change doesn't always mean progress, but the?status quo?isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient. And in the modern, scalable industrial complex, convenience is the quilt that blankets logical reasoning and taking that leap of faith.
Faith can be made a willing accomplice. And self belief a reassuring ally. Progress and forward motion happens when individuals and organizations decide to adopt a posture of possibility. When they take the leap. Are we enabling not just ourselves but others too to embrace possibility?
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NOVELIST, ADVERTORIAL WRITER & THESIS BOOSTER, CITIZEN JOURNALIST
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NOVELIST, ADVERTORIAL WRITER & THESIS BOOSTER, CITIZEN JOURNALIST
1 年Very interesting scenario you have put up, Suresh! But fait accompli and Leaping into Faith are two different things. The confusion is that we accept the 'status Quo'! In Faith, there is a choice of belief left to an individual. In Islam, if I talk about, there is a clear cut Quranic verse saying that 'there is no compulsion in religion'. Yes! Quran the Book of God is an open invitation to humankind proposing rather encouraging the spirit of enquiry man is supposed to undertake by putting the whole universe and his own creation to ask, who has created him with all talents, energy and skills. God in this regard, is giving free and willing choice to human being. If we try to connect two above terms together, then why do we accept dot (.) as technological imperative without which we can send an email and start finding fissures in terms of God? If that dot is fait accompli then God too, must be accepted as such within the precincts of intelligence.