EAT OR BE EATEN

In this corporate world, there is only one principle to survive: EAT OR BE EATEN!

I know you may think that i'm above all these, i don't care about the rut, let me live my life my own way, but after a while, it gets to you...the excitement you get when you are in the STAR CATEGORY gets to you eventually and then you sacrifice your family life, your dreams and all you care about is winning that god forsaken race that you didnt even want to be in the first place..This may sound depressing to you, but unfortunately, the sad part of the story has not started yet...

As is common, after a while, you plateau out and what do you do then to be in the STAR category? You learn from the wise guys, read the guys who are in higher positions and then they teach you about those magical buzz words: team, morale, leadership...No more is the importance of taking an 'initiative' as important as here...this doesnt mean that you do something for the common good, instead it becomes making the commoners do something for your own 'good'...This kind of culture isnt isolated to one person or a group of persons, but slowly becomes the culture of the company and the society as a whole, for people want to be successful, right? And who better to learn that from than the successful people themselves....hypocricy, subserrviency to superiors, self-righteousness and a dollop of putting other people down...all are critical for a person to make it here..And whom can we blame except for this corporate culture that promotes individual dominance and idiotic bull heads?

I feel disgusted that i, too am part of this and i too have followed the path of success...but like a helpless sailor, i've watched my ship sail deeper and deeper, while i tried to steer away from it...i may have made money, i may have got reputation, for i know that it came at a price and the price was my SOUL!

I've a dream and it may not to be change the entire corporate culture, for it is too big and too beyond my reach, i've a simple dream and that is to promote togetherness, to promote the ideals of a one society whereever i go, read, some company that was founded on the principles of brotherhood and where merit is rewarded by how successful your team was and not on how successful you were...but, i know that there are very few companies that promote this utopian culture and that they may not pay me huge bonuses or grant me rich rewards, but they will give the one thing that i need the most: the feeling that i have got my soul in tact...

For whether this will happen now or in the far future, i dont know, but i do know one thing that there will be a day, when i will no longer be under this muddy,bloody waters, but i will be above, much far above these that i dont even notice the mud anymore...but, until that day, i pray to the almighty, that he protects my soul and keeps it intact so that it can one day shine again....

Amen!