It is worth beginning with
Chip Heath’s appetizing quote:
“The most basic way to get someone's
attention is this: Break a pattern.”
I
never realized breaking my pattern. Because I have accidentally smashed or
made it defunct, I was caught in the surveillance of my friend’s attention quite
recently. So this time, it was my friends who stunned me out of the blue.
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Happy Thrue Baab 2013 |
Back
in Bhutan, whenever the special occasions draw closer, I used to lead the
marathon of sending well-being and goodwill wishes to my friends and their
families. And this rhythm of keeping them in touch exactly did not repeat this
time because both pairs of my limbs were sealed to orchestrate for my
presentations due next week.
These
events hectically swallowed my free time without any nerves or hesitation and
eventually made me feel like being back to those schooling days. Shifting the
gear back to the learning mode isn’t really a piece of cake after I have
partially lost the track of my learning journey.
And
keeping myself abreast with the current affairs and wetting my friends with
constant dews of messages sometimes is, quite another organ of this difficult labour. The fact that I am away from Bhutan is one critical factor that measures my commitment.
Therefore, being engulfed by the tentacles of my works with a limited time, in
a process, have miserably failed to tender the growing shoots of my good
habits.
The
failure to wish my friends and their families during this significant Blessed
Rainy Day portrayed how sloppily I have withered the greener parts of my good routine
that helped me derive fresh relations and rapport for the last many years.
However,
I am truly thankful to my friends who travelled the road I drove before but in a
different way. Thank you all for checking the elasticity of my inbox and making
it full to its rim with echoing wishes.
Little
have I known in my life that small things truly make a big difference. Now I learned that those
tiny messages in the smallest form of bits really carried a mega meaning in the
capacity of bytes.
Happy
Thrue Baab
Damchoe sir....i know its hard when we just miss our family and friends circles especially on such occasion but the hope of work tentacles will keep you engaged and within you will be back to your country. Your message will surely be felt by your near and dear ones.
ReplyDeleteYup, because of the busiest schedule, I have forgotten to wish them. Anyways, Thank you for reading it.
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