The Moon

Jun30
We are getting serious in life. Our book value we hope that it will improve with this seriousness. All our life we have been meeting deadlines - initially for the fear of  being ticked off, then to prove our worth to our seniors ,thereafter to get home fast to spend time with a newly wedded wife sitting in a single room tenement staring at the four walls , working out the designs in the damp wall plaster.( no saying what the idle mind would be working on with nothing to do..-You didn't want a wife who was mad as a wet hen when you reached home after a particularly frustrating day at the office.

Later to get away from home and a whole gaggle of screaming kids ,Use the office as a reason to get away from home for some peace and quite- and since you were at office complete the task at hand as  there was nothing else to do. As we complete more than 30 yrs in service to the nation we work to prove our efficiency.We have run the gauntlet throughout our lives.

 Now at ASCI we were fodder for the cannon. Missing the swim time to complete a test with regard to our understanding the finances and  reading the balance sheets. One person who is under least pressure even after a time in the services is Himanshu or the moon. Like the moon he is cool and works well under pressure , does not lose patience ,handles classmates with aplomb AND more importantly his wife is far from home on foreign shores .What more can a man ask for?. and so when I asked him to contribute to the blog today he cheerfully acceded to do so even though the hour was late. I , along with all of you am very curious about what he will write..

Birth is our opening Balance

Death is our closing Balance

Prejudiced views our liabilities

Creative ideas are our assets

Heart is our current asset

Soul is our other asset

Brain is our fixed asset

Thinking is our current account

Achievements are our capital

Character & Morals, our stock in trade

Friends are our General reserves

Values, Behaviour are our Goodwill

Patience is our interest earned

Love is our Dividend

Children are our Capital work in progress

Education is brands/patents

Knowledge is our investment

Experience is our premium account

Aim is to tally the Balance sheet accurately

Goal is to pursue it actively.

The above poem (not my composition) sums up our understanding of the fundamentals of balance sheet ‘figuratively’. Professor M. Rafat’s brilliant insights into the world of finance and her tact of avoiding technical complexities wherever possible and giving detailed explanations and examples in simple terms precluded the possibility of us getting lost into the wilderness of numbers and jargons. Some aspects of finance can be daunting or pretty dry but the live examples used certainly adds to the ease of learning. Yesterday’s boxing bout turned into a friendly give and take, where the jabs instead knocked the concept straight into our nuts, resounding inside with a sense of achievement of treading the unknown terrain in in the dark. Finance can be a source of anguish  annoyance,fear headache and vexation - a somewhat tiresome subject for those who have no previous experience and for especially for people who belong to the armed cadre, as it is more complex than decrypting a cipher. But the fiery pugilist that she is, the onerous task of cementing the building blocks was successful with an assignment to ‘cure the newly laid bricks’. Post lunch, as always, Hypnos the god of sleep beckons us into his loving embrace while seducing us in the carefully woven web of dreams. But his might was yet again challenged by Prof. Subhashini (since past week, a frequent tussle between the psychologists and the god of sleep is being witnessed where the former usually prevails). We the ‘midnight's children’ (transitioning like the protagonist from one world to another) were pulled into the world of decision making down to the last detail. I wonder, the day I start theorizing my subconscious thoughts and verbosely describe the process of my rationale, I may come up with an alternative theory which many peers and seniors of fauji community may approve of. To think of,on a tangent though, these theories are only proven, tested & applied at work place but none of these social scientists tried these on their spouses….how could they; for instance Carl Jung fell in love with his patient, Sabina Spielrein, which Mr Freud disapproved of & this gave birth to ‘psychoanalysis’ (revalidation by experts required). Maslow married his first cousin Bertha when he was 20 and she was 19, and no pun intended, he stated that marriage was the true beginning of his life. Obviously, he had to get the theory of hierarchy of needs right!  (Food for thought)

Regards,

Himanshu Saxena