Hey folks,
I’m going to write about a slightly unpleasant thing today. In the last few months, I’ve kind-of metamorphosed well from a ‘blogger’ to a ‘freelance content writer’. Apart from that, I’ve taken the liberty to help out some social and business initiatives by giving thought, logistic and contact support. Let’s keep that fact aside now.
From what a lot of people would know of me, I always love it if people tell me their intentions upfront. Due to a recent spree of events, I’ve been baffled by the inability of people to use the word ‘no’ when they need to use it!
I have been involved in organizing a small city-level invitational discussion-based event, for ‘Sit’, for the past 2 months. It has been a slowly progressing thing and has given me enough learning opportunities.
During the course of the 2 months leading upto this very day, I have had atleast 3 dozen people pledging their full support towards this event, atleast 2 dozen people vowing to dedicate their life and soul towards the success of this event and about a dozen people ‘trying to help out actively’.
The final tally? Just 5-6 people working for the event.
I have learnt not to take any word or commitment from people unless they have a strong previous delivery record. I have learnt that there are enough individuals around us who commit and make no effort to deliver. I have learnt that there are people who have no guts to say they can’t deliver something when they can’t. I have learnt that I should not step into or undertake any initiative unless I am confident that I can do the entire thing myself. And that any helping hand is only a value addition and isn’t really required.
This can be a cliched assumption but at the moment there is no better bet for me. Let’s see what learning tomorrow has in store for me!
Yours Skeptpically,
P.S. I’m sure those who are meant to understand the idea behind this post will certainly do so. So, there’s really no need to drop names and/or incidents.
P.P.S. Srinath, yes! I understand! I won’t say that “good friends” cliche stuff again! Point taken! Learning gained!
