Hope, finding the benefit of hope.

A toxic work environment What is the first image that appears in your mind with the above sentence?  When someone says " my office is so toxic" , is it, A team full of fun people but a leader who is always behind targets? A very good team but the customer is highly demanding and the superiors aren't doing anything to that? A high-risk environment and the boss is hell-bent on the targets, every day throughout the year?  A superior officer who is always behind in productivity,  A senior with just work in mind and no empathy? A well-experienced person who is not understanding the whole team and its culture?  Or, someone who always supports some age-old tradition? If it is based on the above, it is most likely that the toxicity is from superiors,  I have listened to many conversations where when one is faced with a lot of new challenges, thrown with new opportunities when not ready, or given extra responsibilities with experience, one assumes that the wo...

International Women’s Day , "Embrace Equity" Messages from all over the world from everyone, Men wishing us to be powerful, strong, amazing women, letting us know that we already are beautiful the way we just are and assuring us that they are pro-feminist and they would want nothing but the absolute best  Women wish each other a prosperous life, and we should uplift each other and be there for each other.. What a beautiful thing to witness … one of my absolute favorite days of the year… Have you ever observed that we treat all other beings on this earth differently? We don’t bifurcate with male or female and then work only towards one welfare, there are no laws (human-made) to protect the welfare of only female species or the male species unless they are on the verge of being endangered… so why do we celebrate the existence of women and appreciate them for being them that evidently? Mind you there are heaven lot of days similar to this. Did the women once belong to an endange...

As an engineer, I was always told during my studies that there should always be a known reason behind every step, and a definite approach toward it. Before that, in our mathematics or physics or any programming language we have always used the " something is equal to something " approach, it can be a definition, equation, formula or theorem or you name it.  So, how do we define, equate, formulate, and justify the term " Success "? Don't ask me, I don't know it either, the following are a series of thoughts or assumptions, let's see if it leads to some conclusion. 1. Can we define success in terms of effort?   If I have put in 100% of my effort and still didn't get the expected result, am I far from being succeeded? If I have put in 200% of my effort and I'm 50% to completion, can I say I'm halfway to success? Or, if I have put in 100% of my effort and I'm right on course to complete the things, but in due course, I have lost m...

What's equality in society mean?? To have what boys/men have?? Well here is what they have,  They don't cry, no, they must not cry, they are born strong, and they are taught to be. They can't say no to things. They can't be vulnerable, they should not show it, how can they?  They don't get tired, they are growing to be a Superman! They should go out and earn and they should support others in any, at any cost  They can't rest, no they can't take a day off They don't have mental illnesses, heck no, they don't have physical illnesses either. They cannot write big emotional messages to their loved ones, it shows feminism and that is shunned by society. They cannot say they are also abused, society won't believe it, so forget about listening. They can't be moping about emotions, they are not allowed to be emotionally hurt, it's not manly!! They can't ask for help, it's a taboo. They can't choose to stay at home or take ...

You must have read  "World mental health day" This year's theme:  Make mental health & well-being for all a global priority. Just a day to create awareness?  Ummm, Let's see. We wish, seek, and desire many. what do we get and how much do we get? In this quick, continuously evolving, virtual world, we go through a lot of emotions in a second. We are always running toward or away from something.  We are aware our life is unique and different and all of us have different purposes, yet we still sometimes want to be like her, him, the entity or the concept that entices us. Are we? Is there something overpowering our awareness?   What does Being healthy and happy mean? Should I have free time in hand? Can a person who never gets out of their home, be happy? If a person decides to be quiet, is that person mentally sick? If you're busy throughout the year(the whole year) that mean you're stressed? You're calling off the meetings and wish to be alon...

Remember in our childhood we used to have a toy and were very fond of it, we don’t use to say it out loud instead just take it around everywhere, to sleep, while eating, bathing and there used to be times where we were told not to be with it anymore  we used to kiss, hug it out, always talk to it, form a story around it, and sometimes beat it too.  I can still feel the pain I felt when I lost my toy and my sister cried for weeks when someone stole her favorite toy. What if the toy felt everything, and wanted to express its feelings but didn’t know how, not just happy but also love, pain, and anger, and didn’t know how or when?! What if we had never known of all this and if we’d known would we have treated it the same or better different? Better different, Always, isn’t it? Now relate that toy situation to our lives someone who is around us, whom we love a lot but fail to express at times, gets angry, gets bored, burns the bridges for some trivial reason, and so on.  What ...