{"id":5634,"date":"2020-07-16T16:12:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T10:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.iilm.edu\/?p=5634"},"modified":"2020-07-16T16:12:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T10:42:36","slug":"shall-pass-meraki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iilm.edu\/blog\/shall-pass-meraki\/","title":{"rendered":"This shall too pass\u2026till then let\u2019s try Meraki!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know those frowning faces with irksome stretched online classes or work from home, as they say it\u2019s the new normal or ordinaire. What\u2019s normal or what\u2019s not, I am not here to infer that. Neither am I here to draw conclusions about who played the bad-boy and ignited our 2020 with full of remorseful endeavours. Neither shall I salt the wound of families who have been affected by the pandemic. We all know about it. And we all are waiting to surface our sorrows and joys above it; float above the virus massacre of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Then what must our dialogue entail\u2026time to ponder!<\/p>\n<p>Have you guys ever thought about why all of a sudden, it\u2019s us? Us in the brink of an utmost apathy by our creators&#8211;the nature, the water, the air, the sky and above all the earth? Maybe yes some of us have, through fathomless research, readings; and maybe not! But my implication is not soul-searching but rather to pull our lives back exactly to the years gone by and re-think to relive it differently. Now how\u2019s that possible? As we all are judicious beings, we believe in tangibility mostly. Money is time\u2019s new definition and more the time, let\u2019s pour some more money\u2026isn\u2019t it? Don\u2019t worry, we all have our minds clocked and locked on our wellbeing\u2026 we create and think to create more often. In the midst of only creation of means to wellbeing, we lose most of it by the time we realize it.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, let\u2019s come back to my fundamental ask\u2014Can we re-think or re-live our lives backwards? Scientifically we can\u2019t as time is a factor that is linear\u2026even if somebody builds or secretively has a time machine- we can\u2019t redo our lives\u2014as physicists might argue about paradoxes! On possessing a very unscientific, illogical mind, I\u2019ll offer you my consolation of not being able to solve that paradox. But my dear smarties, we can certainly re-live our lives- in moments of our passions that we enjoy the most while executing- Meraki.<\/p>\n<p>Meraki will guide you and your work (be it studies\/profession\/job\/hobbies) in a time where everyone is busy tabulating the viral count across the globe. Somebody asked me if Meraki is a replicated version of Tiktok or yet another type of a PS4, I smiled back to them stating, \u2018It\u2019s my bad!\u2019 So, if you guys are unsure of Meraki, I have already smirked at you all too. Since, I believe that I have induced in the right vocab in your dictionary now.<\/p>\n<p>Now let\u2019s see how this Meraki can help you evolve from this situation that is going to persist for some more months.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Whenever you wake up- put Meraki into thankfulness for still being alive! Hurrah!<\/li>\n<li>While preparing morning tea\/breakfast\/helping your house-mate-involve meraki<\/li>\n<li>While relaxing, add observational task as your meraki<\/li>\n<li>While petting your bird or dog, look at them and pet them enough to utter meraki<\/li>\n<li>While cleaning your house-meraki can do a better job than most trained house helps<\/li>\n<li>While taking up your online courses, meraki might help you achieve an A plus<\/li>\n<li>While reading a book, it can turn you into an online book reviewer<\/li>\n<li>Just wondering if while reading this article, your meraki can make you like it \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are too many mundane yet necessary tasks\/activities that we do undesirably with great complaints. However, using the miracles of meraki, we can change our lives, we can relive ourselves in small yet ordinary tasks\u2026 what used to be a complaining, boring and uncool and unproductive hours of our lives yesterday could be our elated freedom in times of today.<\/p>\n<p>Meraki is the spice we need to blend in our activities of today so as to relive those mundane moments. As the crisis has proven to us that life and its associated echoes are not old-fashioned\u2014what\u2019s uncool is the regular whines, the complaints and ultimately no life at all!<\/p>\n<p>My focus is more on your well-being, your pustimarga and Meraki is the way forward.<\/p>\n<p>Reach out to thank me! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Meraki is a Greek terminology that believes in putting your heart &amp; soul into whatever task\/work you do. I hope that helps!<\/em> \u263a<\/p>\n<p>Nidra Naik<br \/>\nNovelist &amp; Poet<br \/>\nAccenture<br \/>\nPGDM Batch 2004-06, IILM Lodhi Road<\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:nidranaik@gmail.com\">nidranaik@gmail.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/nidranaik.com\/\">www.nidranaik.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know those frowning faces with irksome stretched online classes or work from home, as they say it\u2019s the new normal or ordinaire. What\u2019s normal or what\u2019s not, I am not here to infer that. 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