Remote work

A great crisis creates a novel-embracing cultural transformation. Home vs. office is a new synthetic distinction is the present world of work.

The digital presence has replaced physical reality. Working remotely already existed before nCOVID-19, the Coronavirus will spur its growth to a whole new cultural transformation level.

Traditions are changing, mindsets are changing, views are being challenged. There will be long-lasting changes. It will be enthralling to see how it all unfolds. There will be losers, sure, but there will be a lot of winners, as well. Will, one of us will be the ones?

Change is coming. Don’t be afraid of cultural transformation.

Wealth: (that's what I want?)

The title of this essay and this conversation isn’t a declaration. It’s an inquiry.

If asked? What "true wealth" means, what would one say? Money, fame, respect, prestige, power, freedom, health? It certainly means different things to different people. The definition of wealth is personal. There is no right or wrong answer. It's an inquiry.

To some people, wealth is unceasingly going to mean money, but we can't all be wealthy in that way. Food and drink are basic necessities, ask for money themselves, and life doesn't go well without them. In the realm of prudent nutritional practices, eating the right element makes life work, and each of us has to nurture our bodies.

We have to step outside of that conversation to get what that is really about.

Give me food (that's what I want!); there's an obsession somewhere. The starving beggar and the exquisite cuisine overeater share the same predicament. The thirsty desert nomad and the connoisseur alcoholic share the same predicament.

No food, either from a street shop or from a famous fine dines restaurant, can in and of itself create a context for wholeness and completeness. No drink, either from an office water outlet or from a famed spring, can in and of itself create a context for wholeness and completeness.

If we look unconditionally, what's undistinguished is that we eat beyond eating because eating suppresses feelings of emptiness and incompletion. We drink beyond quenching thirst because drinking suppresses feelings of emptiness and incompletion.

Give us money (that’s what I want!); it is infectious & catchy. Take a look. What we want money to do. To be precise, we envision, having a pool of money will provide us contentment because money will suppress feelings of emptiness and incompletion.

The struggle is without already possessing wholeness and completeness, and there’ll never be enough money. It’s futile.

Excess of wealth in any mode or form doesn’t necessarily fulfill us. If it fulfilled, there’d be no unfulfilled wealthy people. If having money in the bank ever transformed the experience of being unfulfilled into an experience of being fulfilled, genuinely contented, and happy in a way that led to impact us and we make a difference.

Throughout this inquiry, we see again and again, who we are is not our wealth deposits. We are who we are, and our bank balance is our bank balance. To get along in the world as it’s set up today, we are necessitated as a matter of responsibility to manage our bank balance/wealth and make up new ways to replenish it. And we are equally necessitated as a matter of responsibility to distinguish ongoingly between money and our feelings for it and our reactions to it and our conversations about it―and who we really are.

We'll forget who we really are from time to time. As soon as we realize we've forgotten who we really are, we get it again. As soon as we get that, we don't get it, we got it again.

(That’s what I want): is to eat right; What we don’t want is the food like exquisite cuisine. What we want is to quench thirst; What we don’t want is a wine like famed booze. What we want is to be financially viable; what we don’t want is money, like another delusion. What we want is to discover how to serve and how to create rapid, transformed communication with everyone, and no one is left out.

The creation of our experience of our own completion and our own fulfillment is our responsibility and our responsibility alone. It doesn’t depend on or requires money/wealth.

A way forward

The program began at 11:00 am, starting with brief notes―what happened, the story, and the drama. By the time we move by an hour, this woman two-row from backside began to express her despair in her relationship with her husband for the last 4years.

And the whole event for the day turned from there.

As she expressed and objected to how her husband is not the same person and neglects her and her children most reliably.

The seminar leader probed her further with an inquiry and, at the same time, asked all other attendees to look into it for themself.

The program leader asked her to come up with the first such incident or experience as she was confronting herself in that little given time, as she could not come up with any such example at that moment.

While the leader asked her to look back again, as she introspects all over, she could only come up with some immediate account of her husband's action. And further, she shared her husband as an irresponsible person with a shred of evidence. As she was working in the kitchen, her six-month-old daughter started crying. Since her husband was in the home, he did not pick up their daughter, and somebody else got their daughter.

As the seminar leader drills her further down and invites her to look for the source, when did she first experience indifference, moreover, for her, her husband is? ― in these last four years.

The women participants looked layer by layer. It happened four years ago; it was her birthday, and it was also a public holiday. Her husband promised an outing, and he went to his office.

Vowed to return by 6 in the evening to take her out for the birthday party, it was 8 pm till then, but her husband did not return. He returned by 8:30 pm, he told her sorry, and she said back to him what was wrong and went to sleep without dinner, and did not celebrate her birthday day for the last four years since then.

Following this, she interpreted her husband as irresponsible and disregarded her.

As she began to see for herself for the first time in these four years, the only thing that happened was her husband was late, and all she made a possible interpretation was that her husband disregards her and is an irresponsible person.

And the quality of her relationship dropped each day.

For the next four years, she applies to engage her view from that filter/lens that she is dealing with an irresponsible person.

She could not relate this way before and looked at what was possible to deal with in her relationship.

She was able to get that by then. She was collapsing what happened with stories she had over & over and making them real for her.

Besides, she could relate to when her baby was crying and she was working in the kitchen; she had no idea where her husband was at home or why he could not attend to the baby. She could only engage her husband as an irresponsible person/husband for that view she had.

She shared her new heartfelt breakthrough, outcome, and newfound love with her husband.

It was 2:30 pm, lunch break was announced. When all participants assembled again, Kareena, another participant from the seminar, intervened. As Kareena and her husband, a participant, resolve in between their narratives, Kareena thinks her husband is robotic. In contrast, her husband thinks Kareena does not understand that he is not robotic. As Kareena and her husband struggle. The session was about to come to a close. It was delightful to see their commitment and struggle to get each other requests and demands for themself.

What denoted the outcome of the event:

That we have made myths so perfect and brilliantly that we are unwilling to let them go. And if we can relate to the interpretation as interpretation, not the fact. And live life as a network of communication a possibility for creating and resolving anything, anytime, with anyone under any circumstance.🖤