ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

In a lifetime, each one of us will have different roles to play and with that various responsibilities to execute. You may be in the role of a mother, father, brother, sister, friend, relative and the list goes on and on. With all these different roles we have many many responsibilities also. However, if keenly observed, it is not difficult to understand that you would be best in only one of the roles and the other roles would be good or average or even bad. For example, you may be an excellent father but not-so-good husband. You may be an excellent friend but an average sister. You may be an obedient son but not a reliable friend. But yes, the positive side is there is at least one role which you are best at. For the average roles, it can be managed but the problem lies in the sectors where we are bad. That areas need to be worked upon. We might not become best in all those roles, however, but at least to bring it to an average level would suffice. It is so because when we become an average wife or an average friend or an average brother from a bad one, the transition would be noticed and appreciated thoroughly by all those who are in that relation with us.

It is all about focus and priorities. The role that attracts our focus and is our priority will always turn out to be the best. We will give our extra bit of efforts to enhance our responsibilities related to that particular role as it is our area of interest. The neglected and taken-for-granted roles will usually take a back seat.

I have met people who are so good in one role that one cannot believe he could be bad at another. For eg. Someone is an excellent husband, a caring father, a trustworthy friend, but not-so-good colleague. But when you look at that person it is hard to believe that a person so good in various roles fails to execute one role.

It is impossible to polish all aspects of human nature and a perfect 10 on 10 however the scale can be adjusted to be at least on an average of 5 and above on a grade of 10 in all our roles that we are in whole living this beautiful gift of life.

Be empathetic, be loving, be happy.

Regards

SRN