Kya Sahi Kya Galat
Perception?
Dilemma! Google defines it as a situation in which you have to make a difficult choice between two or more things. Although not always difficult, it is not easy either to choose because neither you know the future nor can you change the past that might play a crucial role in making a decision. Before proceeding, reflect on your past and try to find out the places where fickleness captured you sending you in a state of overthinking.
If you say you are always at one side, either yes or no, perhaps your decision led to the goal you desired and thus, it does not guarantee that the decision you took was absolutely correct.
If you consider yourself to be fickle-minded then may be the life is not going according to your decisions and you are probably just managing it.
Whatever be the case, remember you are amazing!
After finally surviving two semesters in an engineering college, and having a tint of the corporate world, I present to you a situation:
India with a human population of 1,352,642,280 (reported by Wikipedia) in 2019 had 52 million active Instagram users (reported by digitalmarketingcommunity.com). Considering these figures to be true, you might have used Instagram or at least heard of it. Instagram did not allow you to post a video of more than one minute initially. You wanted to look at something that is at twentieth seconds of the duration. You wanted to show it to someone but you could not do that because then you had to wait for another forty seconds. This costed you an overhead time, after all time is precious. Looking at all these features, you decided to uninstall it and told the people around you that it is addicting. Some took it seriously while some did not. But apparently, Instagram uninstalls shot up. This caused a fall in the stock prices of Instagram (Facebook’s stock prices to be specific as it is owned by Facebook). To compensate the loss or to manage the business, an engineer from the company is asked to revise the code so that the problems that the users are facing can be solved.
This engineer A sits next to some other engineer called B, B had a free time and passionate about engineering they (gender neutral) too implemented it. A submitted the code revision in time but then B also submitted it in the same time. Somehow, the time to load the Instagram page was less in B’s revision of code and A did not think that they could take this too in consideration. Impressed with B’s work, B is offered promotion while the person who was actually asked to implement did not get it despite working on it, reason being they thought that it is their work and submitting in time was more important.
In the above situation, there are four characters: the users, A, B and the Boss of A and B. Try to analyse the situation from every person’s point of view by assuming you are them and share your views.
Similarly, looking at the brain drain that India faces, many talented individuals leave the country as they find the opportunities abroad better. This does not mean the person is wrong, perhaps they do not believe in borders. On the other hand, there is a person who believes that India is their home and no matter what they would not leave it. Who is right? Perhaps no one or both, or the second person?
Concluding this it is not wrong to say that it is all about the choices we make at the moment. And one cannot guarantee that the choice will lead you to success. Sometimes, you will need to quit and sometimes you will fail too. Just to quote someone more wiser than me “We are not island, we are a part of the continent.”
