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A Sarcastic Smirk… Made Me Think
A colleague’s predicament led to a pragmatic solution.
There are occasions when you get to learn the biggest lessons of life from the unlikeliest of sources. Furthermore, such learnings remain ingrained in your psyche for a long time. They inspire you so much that you put them to use on a day-to-day basis, hoping to derive practical benefits from them. This is one such narrative.
It was a festive week, and I happened to be in the United States on work. A senior American colleague invited me over to his family home for dinner. By the time things got over, it was pretty late. Since his place was in a distant suburb, and I was staying very close to the city center, he offered to drive me to my hotel.
You get to learn the biggest lessons of life from the unlikeliest of sources.
It was a sweet gesture, one that was accepted with a sense of gratitude. On the way back, we crossed his office. It was a lot closer to the hotel I was staying in. This surprised me a bit, considering the fact that I had all along assumed the makeshift setting we were working out of was his office. The building we had just driven past was too far from his suburban home.
I asked him if it was difficult driving to work every day. It’s an understatement, rather a very stupid question…
