Game of Losing

Emails are an MBA’s best friend, when we wake up we check email, standing eating and even pooping we check them. They are our bread and butter, we are good email writer, and sometimes I wonder if MBA is all about effective email writing. And one of the most most important part of email is signatures, they are what follows

With Regards

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They are supposed to define from whom the mail is and also identity of the writer. But amusingly if the emails are not forwarded they are longer than the body of the email. Interestingly signatures can be used to identify the anchor point of a person. The institution, organization or part of his life that defines him the most. It is most common in our professors, it has been decades since they have left IIT’s but still it finds mention in their signatures. 

On the complete opposite side, recently my cousin had a baby. She is 8 days old, still has not been christened but has the whole family after her. People like me are helping in baby shopping; my cousin has put her PhD on hold and whatever time anybody in the family gets is spent with her. She has no identity any signatures but she is looked after, cared and loved in all our capacity and beyond. 

Now, is this not what we seek all our lives “love, acceptance and recognition" from society, from our dear ones or with ourselves. And it was all there, we loved everyone and everyone loved us, however people around us we accepted them. All our desires and needs were fulfilled before us saying anything. Then what went wrong? What happened is that we grew up, we became something, we became the signature. It is the signature and the identity that has restricted us. So maybe life is not about creating identity, maybe life is a game of losing. Losing everything and becoming natural like a baby. 

With Regards