Young men work hard driven by ambition and lust for power and money. Older men rarely work hard and the reasons could be many. Satiation. Fatigue.
And rarely an angle of repose.
This weekend I found myself working very hard over the weekend on a proposal that has to be submitted tomorrow. We have, I think, created a work of high quality but not for one moment, while doing so, did the thought of success drive me.
In fact I am not quite sure the decision makers will even read our proposal fully. Very often we forget that when a society falls into the corruption trap it is not only through illegal transactions but through the devaluation of merit and the promotion of the lowest common denominator.
Be that as may be I enjoyed this stint of hard work much more than any of the many slogs I put in the grip of feverish dreams of success. Bhagwat Gita's advice to seek only hard work and not it's fruit would have perhaps found more adherence if it had equally forcefully stated that it is the only kind of hard work anyone would enjoy.
Thought I will put down these few words (fulfilling my promise of a post every Sunday) before I turn in a for a hard day's night.
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