To Be Specific
To be specific’ is a
phrase we use quite often. The idea of using it is to lend more clarity to the
task or subject at hand. But when we adapt the same to our Life, the same
phrase becomes restricting. It draws boundaries on the boundless possibilities
of Life.
Let us look at the academic curriculum we follow. A
bachelor’s degree is specific to a subject. It doesn’t allow a student to
explore other realms of academia. There should be a framework for any area of
study but what is the need to restrict one to that framework? Let the person
who is undertaking the study fulfill the requirements of the framework and be
allowed a certain degree of freedom to explore other streams of interest as
well.
There
was a time in the past when people used to do a particular job right from their
date of joining to their retirement day – of course at incremental levels of
responsibility; but the nature of the job remained the same. The jobs were
specific. Today, if a person tries to
stick on to a specific job, that decision will sound the death knell of his/her
career. There is no luxury of allowing a person to be an expert in a field
alone. Rather, what is preferred is a person being an expert in a particular
field and still having moderate knowledge in the related areas.
Now,
let us look at Life at large. Many of us tend to stick to a specific instance
in the past and then live our lives in its shadow. It may be a love failure,
demise, disease or a financial turmoil. That specific instance anchors and
pulls us back from moving ahead in Life.
Some of us tend to stick to a specific
aspect of Life .For some, it will be work and for some others, it might be
academics. Some stick to an interest which might not be worth pursuing. Here, we
are losing out on the larger picture in Life. We are restricting our lives to a
specific part and not living up the whole of it.
Let us try and learn to look at Life with an abstract perspective and forget the constraints of the specific way. It
is much more liberating. It gives a lot of room for exploring the numerous
facets of life. This requires flexibility in mindset, thought process and the
way of living life itself. Abstracts allow us to look at Life without getting
fogged by the established norms and conventions. An abstract approach lends
clarity to the vision of Life. It is like one of those welcome showers on the
wind shield when it gets dusty from a long drive. Arun Babu.
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