A light read on the corporate lives. Emphasizing on ARK, how it influences our lives, our career. Drawing comparison between you and Noah, and all the other animal in the ark to the people living in corporate jungle. It is a humorous take on a serious topic and intends not to offend any.
2. I know who you are! Even though you are not dressed
in a cloak, nor you have grizzly white over flowing hair
and beard, you cannot hide who you are.
You are the one who has an ARK. Your power suit or a
formal office wear, well controlled smile, and hidden
stress may disguise you on road as a corporate
personnel. Still, it cannot take away from you what you
are.
3. You are what you have always wanted to be. You are in
control and with power to make a difference. After
all, you have an ARK. The ARK you have built house all
kind of animals, from a lowly humble church mouse to
the king of the jungle a mighty Lion. Somewhere, in
the food chain, you are sandwiched. You have a line of
animals beneath you, who would look up to you in
awe, jealousy or even in contempt. While the ones
above, may adore you, look at you with pride, ignore
you or for that matter, have you for lunch!
I know, it is tough, but then, you are no ordinary
person. You are the one, who needs to control
different species, with different identities and power
indexes. After all, you are the chosen one, Noah, who
has to live with the pain of knowing something bad is
going to happen, the hope of light at the end of tunnel.
You need to steer your ARK and you can make a
difference.
4. Your ARK is your power. It has the
power to cut across all level of animals
from a grizzly bear to a rabbit and
create an impression that is difficult to
ignore. Your ARK is nothing but Act of
Random Kindness. Noah, ARK is your
power, ARK is your strength and ARK is
what will sail you thorough hard rains
or floods.
Woah! I am not trying giving a
sermon, motivating you - no way. I am not
telling you something that you did not know.
So, wipe that unbelieving smile and let us take
a walk on the deck Noah, and see how ARK is
doing.
5. Evening is approaching fast. It is
water and water all around. Not a
speck of land to be seen. Cannot
make out where the water ends and
the sky begin? Sun is sinking fast
and the nip in air is catching up with
the mood of the lonely woodpecker
sitting on the rail of the deck.
Promise is there for the dry land but
there is no time given.
It has been long, since the
woodpecker jumped on the ark for a
promised land. Now the days and
water seems to go on forever. Away
from natural habitat, with strangers
who can hardly understand, the
woodpecker is in search of some
place to call her/his own. That is our
woodpecker - trying to fit in the
group, successful to some extent,
yet lonely in heart.
6. When you walked up to the
You have talked to woodpecker, so woodpecker, and
many times, in cafeteria, in lifts. Now genuinely, asked how it
you have seen what the woodpecker feels to be in dry wood.
really longs for. You can’t go faster. When you listened with
Reaching land! That is not in your hand. interest to the tales of
Land will appear, when it would. distant land, saw the lovely
woods through the wood
pecker’s eyes, you and the
woodpecker were bound
together in an ARK. That
moment that will ever
remain in woodpecker’s
heart and soul. You just
spent few moments, and
what you earned was Out of
Box moment. It made live a
different life. Made you fly
and look at the world from a
height flying!
7. May be one day, when you are stuck in a
problem. Solutions is nowhere in sight, you
remember how woodpecker knocks on
different wood to check which is hollow and
easy to pick. And there you are -- the
solution finder! Your act of Random
Kindness, helped woodpecker relive the past
or promised future. Earned you an ally and
gave you a chance to do something
different. You felt the change; you have the
power in you to make any change.
8. Every day, you come across different animals in your ark. Don’t you let these
animals over run the place for you! You are the master and it is your ARK. By
small gesture of yours, you can make in difference, because you are Noah.
9. Till next time, take care of these animals and spread the ARK.