DISHARMONY

 DISHARMONY

Though I have started this item –it storms in me as to whether this should be discussed at all. For reasons of trying to get over such occurrences in life, I deem it necessary to ‘understand’ what it is all about. Is it that with advancing age, we tend to find too many incongruities around or is what meets the eye  real?  A hard to answer poser it is. Still, let us try to explore the undercurrents there in.

Practically, everywhere I recognize disharmony, for, what we relish and what we get to have are far removed from each other. If so, how to be at peace within and without? Honestly, it looks a hard task to live through such unforgiving men and matters. The most probable element causing these ripples ‘develop’ from a definite craving for importance for self [including our own dispositions-I mean].

The idea presented may be perceived better from our own places of work, be it office or construction sites, hospitals, Court rooms, Class rooms and to an extent even our own homes.   Most of these places do not offer ‘peace’ on a platter, in the sense that one has to fight for peace [Quite ironical indeed!]. Evidently, there is a paucity or paralysis of faith on those in our immediate vicinity. Everyone doubts the other as of being nearly un-reliable; there is deafening silence between persons though each of them nurtures a cauldron of hatred about most members around with a lurking fear that [s]he is all out to ruin my prospects in my office career; is it possible? Officially looks impossible but given the idiosyncrasies of persons who matter in these episodes, nothing can be ruled out as most administrations run on ‘grapevine’ than on facts per se. 

The issue turns worse or complex as the ‘higher ups’ never have an open dialogue on items of relevance, even with the members concerned. Their idiosyncrasies are shaped and trimmed by ‘irrelevant’ considerations. Only very few [negligibly small] who have had high quality grooming in homes, schools, Colleges read the state of affairs and draw the most accurate inferences; all others are guided by ‘interferences’ and not by inferences from sound logic. Reasons for such lopsided attitudes are not far to seek. Most of them [ the ‘higher-ups’] have themselves ascended thrones by crook than by hook and have a natural delight to entertain lesser mortals fearing that more intelligent minds around can spell ‘doom to my prospects’ by immaculate spade work. Such spade works never form the tools of the competent, for, they trust only straightforward attack or deal and not clandestine ‘behind the scene gimmicks’ of the incompetent. The incompetent can never understand this because dispassionate judgment alone can unravel truth, while misguided, fabricated narratives unfailingly land the system in a mess. Living in the marsh of a mess is the delight of the incompetent persons –as they are averse to face both truth and competence. Therefore, they breed disharmony in the system assuming that in peaceful settings, the incompetent cannot survive for long.

On the contrary, if we critically watch truly competent personnel in an  outfit, there is greater harmony, co-ordination and a sense of belonging bordering on pride of their genuine contribution to the system.

Quite a few political realities have helped, nurtured and bred incompetence as a helpful virtue and have stood by the incompetent for too long. It has taken the form of a vicious circle that the competent deem it fit to seek better places for peaceful life. Long hours of dealing with ‘disharmonious/ incompetent’ minds has shattered hopes of peace and men and women under duress [pressure] from such places of work practice ‘reticence’ even at home and the home too looks less harmonious though not disharmonious outright. Till such time that humans get to understand the value and merits of the competent, disharmony would stay large to the point of total collapse.

Prof. K. Raman