NOTE │ JOURNAL │ FACTS
True Tone On A Hard Time
A relatively short note on current scenario
The time is vulnerable, difficult to predict, and showcasing not-a promising future for some days and nights to come. The virus is spreading around, 2nd and 3rd waves are knocking at the doors, unemployment rising to catch all-time higher numbers, social connectivity is now mostly digital. Our mental stability and instability are hanging on a thin thread, and anytime it can change just for a few bits of frustrated notions.
I’m not writing this short note to brag that I have a chalice with a magic formula, whereby reading this will enable you to overcome this scenario. Nobody does actually. But, this is basically to write about some of the surrounded things. A little bit of caution can turn around these things and make our lives less stressful in an overly flooded stress-flow.
- If someone is reaching out to ask whether you require help, either tell them you need it or politely refuse it. You do not have to be harsh on why that person has asked you so.
- If anyone asks for a favor, if possible, help them; if not possible, politely say that you can’t. But you do not require to be harsh here too.
- Please do not be so judgemental. It is true all the time, but mainly when you act as judgemental, it ends up harming or hurting other people around you.
- If you do not like a thing, either you can politely say that this is why you do not like it, no harsh feeling, or do not say it that loud, just to hurt another person. You might think I’m providing them a realistic feel; it’s not. Factfull discussion and shouting out loud ‘your liking’ and disliking are two completely different things.
5. Be respectful to others while you are out there; if someone maintains the social distancing, keep it; if someone is not maintaining the distance with you — ask them to maintain it.
6. It doesn’t cost you to smile while asking or connecting with others, just an effort. But if you are rude in your approach, it costs the other person a painful time.
7. For organizations: if you want to keep your progression and want to retain the business, be truthful to your approach, not fearful. If you know the current scenario, but want to fake it that business is regular and start bashing people based on old normal, rest assured that you will lose business based on an irrelevant understanding or unrealistic approach.
8. For managers: it doesn’t require to be a great leader to empathize with people; you just need to be a human.
9. People are trying different approaches to cope up with this uncertain, vulnerable situation. If those approaches are not harming others and giving them strength, who are you to question?
10. It is okay to burst out in tears and motions due to frustration and fear; let them come out. Once you release it in your mechanism, you might get some courage to start your new day.
That’s it for today. I had so many things in my mind, but for now — jotted down to these 10 points — which I wanted to highlight immediately. Please be respectful to each other as a human. We require to behave like humans to overcome this dark time.
