Solutions And Problems

A daisy fresh morning, and all you have to do is follow that routine of yours which has been routine for too less, but nonetheless a routine. Routines are weird. Eventhough you arent bored of it yet, the very though that it is going to be a long routine bores you. Things you still enjoy seem boring cos in a long run, they are supposed to be so. The inner conscience seem to act according to the future. It saves you all the trouble of transformation of things from enjoyable to boring, by directly pushing them to the boring bracket. Even when you are enjoying it, some inner voice keeps telling you, 'Its boring, its boring' and you have no other option but to be bored.

Hardly a week into corporate life, am jinxed. Not that I hate my job, but I neither enjoy it. The reason?! I know its gotta b boring in a long run, so I am already bored or so my conscience drives me to. This is probably the case for many people out there who enter jobs and know this is going to be their future for times to come. We pursue a job as a solution to all our problems, and their realise that it is the only problem we possess. People like every job but theirs, they feel everything they do is crap, there is nothing to learn and blah and blah! This is occasionally true and occasionally untrue, but the feeling seems to be universal.

Is there a single solution to all our problems?! Everytime we pursue something as the ultimate solution to everything else, we realise it is our problem. We pursue Post Grad as a solution to boring jobs, jarring routines in office, family pressures et al. We join and realise that Post Grad is our only prob and we need to get out of it asap. We yearn to break out of it and join the corporate world, where the real action is ;) (Sarcasm unintended) Probably this is why they have made the concept of Summer Internships. Mid way through PG, we feel it is high time we stopped studying and started earning. We enter corporate world for a brief stint and realise what crap life can be, only to look back at PG and realise what an equal crap that is. Now, there is no solution to this non-existent problem. This eventually takes us the concept of existence of the stigma of problem in our conscience.

We always want problems. If there is no problem, we conceive the first thing that comes to our mind as a problem. Sometimes it is girlfriend, sometimes family and sometimes job. Whatever it is, we just cannot live without problems. The next time, anybody asks you to jot down those 5 things you cannot live without, do add 'problems' to the list. The reason for this probably existent. Life, for many of us, is the pursuit of a solution. We are so crazy about finding the solution, that we create problems for ourselves only to pursue that so-called solution. What an irony!

Working on Solution Manager, I am witness to how many problems we create in the course of our projects, with a focus on Pre-Sales at that, only to find solutions to them. We draw a sadistic satisfaction out of creating weird problems and finding awkward solutions to them. It seems ironical but ironical is life.

The algorithm is simple. If you have problems, find a solution. If you have a solution, make it a problem and find a solution for it now and the cycle continues...