11:51 PM

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Have you reached your home?

Jamshed Wadia

This weekend ended on a mixed note for me and off course the rainy weather magnified the pensive mood. Yesterday a good friend of mine performed on stage and I was so happy for him, not because he sang so beautifully, which he did, but because I knew he was now at home. All of us at some point in time in our life search for our home, a home where you are most comfortable in your skin, someplace where you are treasured and valued, where people love and respect you, some place where you could let your weary head down, a place where you completely fit in like a missing jigsaw piece. Oh the joy that brings to a searching soul to find destiny. And then I couldn’t shake of the feeling that I hadn’t found my home. Some people find it so effortlessly early in life and some of us take a life time to find our place in this world.

6:30 PM

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Both sides - Good intensions but bad leadership and attitude?

Jamshed Wadia

I put up a status update on Facebook today that goes like – “Public sentiment and the actual truth can be 2 different things, a good leader knows this and would either lovingly try to change the sentiment of his or her members or back off till an appropriate time to effect the change. Change no matter how truthful it is can't be stuffed down peoples throats without love and understanding. Quoting the movie Gladiator "You win the crowd you win your freedom”
No points for guessing what inspired this. It’s the sad turn of events that occurred this weekend in Singapore where two groups clashed to wrestle control of a well meaning NGO focused for welfare of woman. In my opinion none of the 2 groups really won. And I am really curious how many of the new members who put an end to the anarchical attitude of the new committee will come back to do service to this organization.  Does it take a crisis like this to boost an organization’s recruitment? Or should the recruitment be driven on growing needs of the woman in our society. Shouldn’t these new members have signed up before this political storm hit, when children and woman were falling prey to abuse and injustice? So much energy to fight ideology on both sides but so little consideration to service the community. Will we continue to react to situations only when our interest as a group is in jeopardy? or will be more proactive in serving people, assuming that is the whole reason the institution is established for. As for the style of leadership of the new and now old exec committee, the lesser is said the better. Even if your values may be well placed this is no way to enforce it on others. Assuming people know how secular democratic NGO’s function where people are convinced and won over before any directional changes are implemented. We aren’t talking about a hostile corporate take over we are talking about an organization with a mandate to serve people. And as per my belief in our God, I believe that God provides us with his guidelines in his word to live our lives but he leaves the choice to us to follow. God would rather have us follow him out of love and conviction rather that coercion and force. I don’t believe that he has given any fellow human the right to judge another human being; that right is with him and only him. Nor has given the right to anyone to ban or condemn any other person who thinks any different than his word. He welcomes all his children to come to him with varying opinions because he knows when they genuinely connect with him he will set their hearts right.
To end no hateful comments please! Let’s talk like self respecting adults.          

3:38 AM

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Protect what’s yours

Jamshed Wadia

When i was a kid my mom used to frequently bring us to the beach. An outing at the beach meant horse rides, sand castles, eating by the beach stalls and walking along the water. There is this one particular day i distinctly remember, i was sitting by the beach and watching another kid build his sand castle. This kid over the last one hour had put in a great amount of work in defining details like windows, doors, a chimney, a garden and a dog house. Then suddenly out of no where there was this teenager who came up to the boy and kicked at his sand castle destroying it completely. Seeing that i was so upset that i ran to the bully and asked him why did he do this but he just ginned at me and walked right past me with no answer and no reason. I remember thinking to myself, wow this boy took over an hour to build something so wonderful only to be ruined in a matter of seconds by another person. The reason why i remember this incident now is because over the last few months i have come to realise that there many such people out there who never manage to build anything good in their life but they take pride in ruining things for others who have things going for them. Seeing so many instances of people ruining other people’s marriages, driving others to financial ruin and sabotaging other peoples careers. All these people only know one thing that is to destroy in a instant what other people took many years of toil to build. We need to guard our hearts, marriages, friendships, relationships and finances from these destroyers who just look for that weak link in us to strike us down with their deception.