Introducing Me to Myself…
This is the second of my write-ups & what made me take this up??I am still thinking, why is it that I am writing about myself,seeking answers yet!!!. Well its a few events that have been happening in the past couple of weeks that have actually made me put on my thinking caps and made me think about myself. By the sheer nature of my profession I get to meet & interact with lot of new people on a daily basis. So as a recruitment personnel it’s become mechanical for me to start of an interview by asking the opposite person to tell me something about themselves, the candidates are smart enough and they rattle of things that the recruiter would like to hear about them.
Through the normal course of my life I happened to meet an individual who stumped me with some questions about myself & it was such a “googli” that I actually could not handle it. Someone out of nowhere was asking me some of the very basic things about myself & I was at an absolute loss for words, thoughts everything. I had blanked out completely.
Before I go any further, let me just clarify that I had not gone to give an interview for any job, since I have my colleagues also reading this its better before anyone jumps to any conclusion.
This whole meeting actually made me very uneasy & uncomfortable because after the meeting the thoughts that were running across my mind were what the hell? Why couldn’t I say something when there were so many things that I could talk about, and this individual had not asked me about something which I was not familiar about, the whole focus was me, and how could I not talk about myself, because I am the best person to know myself better than anybody around me, but still What the hell happened to me? The coming days were really tough. All my energies concentrated on trying to analyse why was it that I was not able to talk, I also used my MBA gyan into this & the whole process of self analysis kickstarted.There were umpteen questions that were creating havoc in my mind. It was as though I was trying to find out my identity. What were my beliefs, values, likes-dislikes, thoughts about issues, what is it that makes “ME”.
I then started my quest to find out all these answers. All the answers lay very much within me & it was also not that I did not know the answers to these. I realised that over a period of time I had not nurtured them enough, I realized I had not given time to myself that time which is so valuable in today’s fast paced life style that we all have. The real me had got lost somewhere amidst the innumerable roles that I play, dutiful daughter, result delivering employee, trustworthy friend, loving sister, ever adorable girl next door just to name a few….but what about the real “ME”…why did I forget “HER”. So where has all this self introspection left me…it has embarked me on a very beautiful trail of rediscovering my self, a trail which I am thoroughly enjoying.
If in life I ever get to meet that individual again, I would wish to personally extend my Heart Felt Thank You to this person who from nowhere momentarily came into my life to “Introduce Me To Myself”. A thought for all those who are reading this, please do not wait for some stranger to come in & give us a jolt to wake us up from our slumber….to reintroduce us to ourselves!
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Babes, lets go on a vacation.. and find answers to allll these questions!!!!
But on a serious note, an eye-opener – very true. More often than not, we wait for someone to show us what we truly are. We forget to know ourselves, our likes-dislikes and our true inner self. Enough philosophy from me!!!
Look who is talkin above to go on a vaccation AND that also to WHOM….! That itself needs a self introspection of how many times — I have been ditching people. Duh!!!! Talk abt finding answers to questions!!!
About the blog.. not sure if this happened with you but it was really thoughtful to build a small skit around it to bring a big message..
Also, i dont believe in the statement you made “because I am the best person to know myself better than anybody around me”.. in situations one is not, the best judge are your friends…
It surely is an eye opener but this fast paced life will push one hard to shut it no sooner or later.. keep up the good work of enlightening us.. awaiting the next blog….
hey thanks so much for the inputs abhijeet….it’s surely very encouraging…well i agree when you say that sometimes our friends or people who know us well judge us the best…but I felt in this particular situation nobody around could help me out….just a counter thought
…Btw thought process for the next has already started.
Well tanu….I dont think we need to go an a vaction just to find out answers abt our selves….can do that by very much staying where we are & doing what we are doing…….well this dsnt mean that v r not going on one..our nxt week plans r very much freezed
the attitude of “myself being busy,best,hard working” should change in every human being is these days and dat’s y people like Ravi Shankar and many more Swami’s having space to occupy faith is a extrenal exili which gives LIFE,POWER N ACTION 2 d impulse of thought
ny thought which holds in one mind attracts a host of it’s relatives,n ads dese relatives 2 its own force n grows until it becomes d dominating
u should just motivate d master which has been housed in ur mind
ny it’s gud eye opener
regards