Shree: work from home

 

191122: Shree: work from home

 

There is a growing trend or tendency to work from home (WFH). The usual advantages cited are of convenience, organic planning, saving of time, optimization of work and so on.

 

One should try to look at the situation from experiential/ phenomenological perspectives too. The idea of optimization and production is only linked to logic or intellect or efficiency and production. But what about social connect? What about feelings of shared experiences? What about the contact with actual “place”/ “site”, “people” and so on? Most people may try to avoid others for the sheer amount of information overload that would be required for brains to digest and empathize as well.

While meeting others, we are required to weed out information; empathize with deeper feelings common to all; encourage others; have patience; troubleshoot for solutions;  give hope and move on – this is a training of comprehending signals and making humane decisions. It also means that logical stuff needs series of refinements till work actually gets down on the ground. “Seeing” is also an important tool for getting inspiration and also for challenging self notions.

 

The drawback of WFH is the illusionary cocoon that one develops and assumes that it will not change and should not be broken and it is ok to stay disconnected. It also makes our own distortions so loud that we believe that it is the only reality worth living for and seeing the world in that lens!

 

I have bad news for such inferences – cocoons are an illusion and so is the idea of separation or isolation. Fundamentally we damage the self by being isolated. In reality, no particle is different from other (since all is just One medium apparently appearing as many or different to the senses or perception or forces) and this therefore means that whatever imagination one generates has repercussions everywhere  and how one interacts with the world of existence. Isolation is untenable to maintain since it calls for a relationship of disconnection with everything (which make up the “I”) and hence by being disconnected, the “I” becomes too pointed, too sharp, too limited, too anxious, too stressed, too noisy, to finicky about everything else it has to encounter. In other words – a snob.

 

This suggests a deeper fact of existence – are we really isolated and what is the place of ego? And if we feel we are connected, then what are we doing about the whole thing? And if we are connected, then how should space, place, time, memory, relationships, activities, work come into the picture therefore?

 

Hari Om.