Trishal on a Friday Had to keep office on Friday to supervise a selection meeting. A new experience for me. But everything from beginning to end ran smoothly. I felt unburdened and calmness settled on me. Happiness lies in completing a job satisfactorily. At break, we performed the Jumma prayer at the university mosque, which is a tin-roofed house with walls cut out in large window frames fitted with glass panes. It was a small but airy house. The lunch for all the officials and teachers engaged in the selection process was cooked by my house-cook (name withdrawn), who, I think, knows better than any other man in the same job, how to prepare a delicious meal with the minimum of ingredients. However, everybody soon discovered that the fish dish didn’t absorb enough salt, and so a round of jokes on cooks enlivened the atmosphere. I shared a joke with others about the gentleman who couldn’t praise anything or anybody in life. One of his friends’ wives took the challenge of extracting praise from the gentleman on her culinary skills. On her insistence, her husband invited some of his friends and their wives to his house and the said gentleman was not excepted. The wife used the best recipes to prepare the best dinner of her life, and everybody ate gluttonously, including the gentleman. So when the dinner was finished and the guests were preparing to leave, the wife approached the gentleman and asked for his opinion on the food. The gentleman replied, ‘Bhavi, it was indeed a very well-cooked dinner, but you know anything excessively good is not actually good.’ My experience in my new assignment so far as a top boss has taught me something that can be uncannily linked with the joke I’ve told above. That is to say, whatever you do, or how sincerely you do it, there’ll be always people like the gentleman of the joke to tell you that it was not well done.
Posted on: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 16:33:47 +0000
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