Random Thoughts

In our everyday life, we meet many people. Each one unique in most respects. I have always found myself little unacceptable to people in general, and get annoyed with their behaviour (finding it to be little weird, illogical,etc). I have always heard that when we keep meeting such people, we become more and more acceptable to them.

I was a little surprised when something similar happened the other day.

• In our organisation, we have a general trend of working in teams, atleast 2-3 people on a project. Since, I am quite new to the place, and had worked alone on my first project for almost 5 months, each of the team mates are new to me (in their work behaviour, atleast!). The other time, when this collegeaue had left the papers unfiled on my desk, I was extremely annoyed. This time, my desk was in a worse condition than the earlier instance. And when I reached offfice in the morning, my desk was all messed up and I knew who it was! Suprisingly, I was not annoyed this time. I just smiled.

I am still wondering what could be the reason for this? May be, I figured out the reason behind this behaviour of his (unacceptable, as I call it), and I did not get annoyed anymore.

• A similar instance happened when I was travelling in the locals with my friend, and someone just rushed in front of us, hurting slightly on my shoulder with his bag. I had the usual annoyed look. I watched him run even faster till he got on to the train. I told my friend that we are always so wrong in getting annoyed at such similar behaviour. He could have got something really important, and getting on to this train could have been really essential for him. Thinking about all this, the annoyance vanished.

Probably, I have always been too opinionated about people. May be, too early to judge them.

And as my friend and I reiterate after every such discussion to remind us not to forms opinions about people without complete information, we end up saying:

" IF WE JUDGE PEOPLE, WE HAVE NO TIME TO LOVE THEM". So true.