I Speak On ‘Sincerity and Hard Work’

So I was gonna get to this topic later, but today’s incident kinda triggered me into writing a blog post asap! I’ve noticed this one too many times, when people want the shortcut here in India, without much hard work! Everyone wants to be at the front; everyone wants the attention; everyone wants to be the leader. Not necessarily for the work to be done, but just for namesakes. I really don’t want to brag about myself, but I’ll be real and say yes I work hard, and I am a bit of a perfectionist (ok more like a HUGE perfectionist). Unfortunately, my sincerity and dedication backfires on me completely making me the fool. So here is my rant on that:

DISCLAIMER: Don’t take any of these thoughts and opinions personally. This blog is purely to let my feelings out. I just hope you get something out of this.

 A couple weeks ago, I had a question that I needed to ask my teacher, whom I called up. I could’ve gone to my fellow classmates, but they’re not all that helpful at times! So instead, I decided to take the safe route, and clarify my doubts with my teacher. The next day it completely blew up on my face. My teacher yells at ME for not checking up with my classmates on this, saying that apparently I had missed her directions she had given earlier. I tried to justify my actions by stating I just wanted to be sure and ask her. But clearly, calling up the teacher and “disturbing her” was not the right thing to do. I came back home completely stumped.

Then just recently, I tried to take initiative to get a project done with a few other people. This project was due very soon, so being the perfectionist that I am, I decided to get active and encourage my team members to do the same. But oh my god! SO MUCH DRAMA. They all completely reject my suggestions, pushing my ideas to the side. Which is fine by me if you do, but somehow I felt this was all personal by the way that I got attacked for wanting to get some work done. Once again, my efforts to be productive backfired on me, and I’m the bad guy…

So I guess I am overly sincere and hardworking. I’ve always been like that, but I guess in India, you just gotta go with the flow! People screw up, let them. People delay, let them. People shove aside your suggestions, let them (sometimes). I will work harder to ease up a bit, and work the way others do here. But I just wish sometimes, people would get me! Instead of tempers running high, work with me. This clash of culture is so difficult for me, that sometimes I feel like pulling out all my hair. Honestly, there’s not much I can do about other people. So yes, I will work on bettering myself.

But one thing, I want people to take away from this, it doesn’t hurt to appreciate sincerity once in a while. Yes it’s easy to get things done through shortcuts, but the result of hard work can be beautiful. I just wish some people would get that…