In a recent experience at work, I was unable to express my feelings when an issue came up about dividing work. At any work place, work is usually divided so that everyone shares the responsibility and their is an effective output. Even at home, children are encouraged to do their work, while elders contribute to running the house. It's basically a team work.
Ah ! YES.. it's team work. In team work, there are NO boundaries. It is SHARING of work. It is NOT who gets to do what work. It is the final outcome that matters. Being in small team, we ALL have been contributing to almost everything that comes our way, as long as one has the skill and experience to do it. AND we have ALL been HAPPY and CONTENDED. Happiness is a beautiful word and the ONLY thing that makes life meaningful.
I love telling stories...I will keep it short....So here it goes...
I had a class of about 30 students some years back. One day, I thought of giving them a treat. When they entered the class, 15 alternate desks had a box of Pizza. As the students entered the class, the aroma made them all say WOW !!!
Some were very happy to see the box on their desk, while others looked at me with curious eyes.
My impatient student could not hold his tongue and asked, " Why only some students have this wonderfully smelling box. And what has to be done."
And the little whiny student said, " This is partiality. All of us don't have it."
By now the class had settled. I said , " ALL of you can have the pizza BUT it has to be SHARED, dividing it between the two of you.Each box is for two students"
Everyone NOT having the box beamed at the thought of getting the share. In a minute, everyone had teamed with another and were enjoying the treat.....
Arrr.....I could hear Miss Grumble mutter something under her breath, " This greedy boy, ate the BIGGER piece."
And ofcourse, Mr. Angry was shouting, " What was the need to give unequal pieces. Now who will get what."
Miss contended asked her clever friend to eat whatever he wanted , meanwhile she would do her Math Assignment. The clever friend ate the bigger half of the two pieces and even took chunk from the smaller piece, keeping it in his lunch box to be eaten later. ishhhh.... little did the clever student know that Miss contended knew it all but would not be bothered.
Mr. Diplomat said to his partner," What's there to divide, we are friends... let's eat whatever we can." And he ate so fast, almost gobbling that the relaxed guy just got a mouthful. Well... this is what is called a healthy , foody competition, I guess.
I could not hold my smile when I saw Mr. Calculative measuring the Pizza pieces with scale and cutting out a chunk of bigger pizza and adding it to the smaller one, equally distributing between the two.
Ah... the scientific student looked up at me and asked , which piece would be healthy ? The bigger or smaller ? The bigger piece has vegetables but a lot of cheese too.... I think, the smaller piece is healthier and ate it.
And my Miss sweet and Mr. Sharing came over to me. Miss Sweet smiled and said," Mr. Share has decided that we should share the bigger piece with you, so that both of us get an equal share. " he he...I patted them both.
I was observing each pair and after a while, I called Miss Amiable and Mr. Happy in front of the classroom and asked, " Will you please share how did you both distribute and eat the Pizza pieces. "
Both gave a puzzled looked at me and then the to the class. What they said puzzled the class even more. They said, " We don't know. We just ate."
Miss truthful got up and said, " You guys are lying. We all have been bickering and fighting and trying to find a solution , as to - How to divide the unequal pizza pieces equally."
Mr. Happy said, " I did not even notice there were two pieces. Miss Amiable did you?"
Miss Amiable said," I saw two pieces but did not notice they were unequal. We were happy with the thought that we got a Pizza and have enjoyed it completely. Infact, a little is still there. Would anyone want to have it."
This brought tears in my eyes. Little kids, may not have understood, so I explained to them. This is how life is. In life, you will always have to work in teams, share your things, divide your workload. If you are happy and amiable not only will you enjoy whatever you are doing, just like Mr Happy and Miss Amiable but with time you will NOT even know what you are eating or which work has to be done by whom. Your only aim would be to have a productive output. In life, there should not be what I am supposed to do and what you should be doing. It is "A team effort" that always wins.
Signing off on that note.... And if you wanna try out this kind of team work, you should be playing Realm Of Empires, a unique , online, real time strategy game.
Ah ! YES.. it's team work. In team work, there are NO boundaries. It is SHARING of work. It is NOT who gets to do what work. It is the final outcome that matters. Being in small team, we ALL have been contributing to almost everything that comes our way, as long as one has the skill and experience to do it. AND we have ALL been HAPPY and CONTENDED. Happiness is a beautiful word and the ONLY thing that makes life meaningful.
I love telling stories...I will keep it short....So here it goes...
I had a class of about 30 students some years back. One day, I thought of giving them a treat. When they entered the class, 15 alternate desks had a box of Pizza. As the students entered the class, the aroma made them all say WOW !!!
Some were very happy to see the box on their desk, while others looked at me with curious eyes.
My impatient student could not hold his tongue and asked, " Why only some students have this wonderfully smelling box. And what has to be done."
My little curious student had already opened the box and blurted," It has a Pizza divided into two. One half is small and the other is big."
And the little whiny student said, " This is partiality. All of us don't have it."
By now the class had settled. I said , " ALL of you can have the pizza BUT it has to be SHARED, dividing it between the two of you.Each box is for two students"
Everyone NOT having the box beamed at the thought of getting the share. In a minute, everyone had teamed with another and were enjoying the treat.....
Arrr.....I could hear Miss Grumble mutter something under her breath, " This greedy boy, ate the BIGGER piece."
And ofcourse, Mr. Angry was shouting, " What was the need to give unequal pieces. Now who will get what."
Miss contended asked her clever friend to eat whatever he wanted , meanwhile she would do her Math Assignment. The clever friend ate the bigger half of the two pieces and even took chunk from the smaller piece, keeping it in his lunch box to be eaten later. ishhhh.... little did the clever student know that Miss contended knew it all but would not be bothered.
Mr. Diplomat said to his partner," What's there to divide, we are friends... let's eat whatever we can." And he ate so fast, almost gobbling that the relaxed guy just got a mouthful. Well... this is what is called a healthy , foody competition, I guess.
I could not hold my smile when I saw Mr. Calculative measuring the Pizza pieces with scale and cutting out a chunk of bigger pizza and adding it to the smaller one, equally distributing between the two.
Ah... the scientific student looked up at me and asked , which piece would be healthy ? The bigger or smaller ? The bigger piece has vegetables but a lot of cheese too.... I think, the smaller piece is healthier and ate it.
And my Miss sweet and Mr. Sharing came over to me. Miss Sweet smiled and said," Mr. Share has decided that we should share the bigger piece with you, so that both of us get an equal share. " he he...I patted them both.
I was observing each pair and after a while, I called Miss Amiable and Mr. Happy in front of the classroom and asked, " Will you please share how did you both distribute and eat the Pizza pieces. "
Both gave a puzzled looked at me and then the to the class. What they said puzzled the class even more. They said, " We don't know. We just ate."
Miss truthful got up and said, " You guys are lying. We all have been bickering and fighting and trying to find a solution , as to - How to divide the unequal pizza pieces equally."
Mr. Happy said, " I did not even notice there were two pieces. Miss Amiable did you?"
Miss Amiable said," I saw two pieces but did not notice they were unequal. We were happy with the thought that we got a Pizza and have enjoyed it completely. Infact, a little is still there. Would anyone want to have it."
This brought tears in my eyes. Little kids, may not have understood, so I explained to them. This is how life is. In life, you will always have to work in teams, share your things, divide your workload. If you are happy and amiable not only will you enjoy whatever you are doing, just like Mr Happy and Miss Amiable but with time you will NOT even know what you are eating or which work has to be done by whom. Your only aim would be to have a productive output. In life, there should not be what I am supposed to do and what you should be doing. It is "A team effort" that always wins.
Signing off on that note.... And if you wanna try out this kind of team work, you should be playing Realm Of Empires, a unique , online, real time strategy game.
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