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20 July 2020
Every now and then, in the middle of the routine posts on this site, there comes one which makes you sit up and notice.Time seems to come to a standstill between past and future - in the Now. KJS Sidhu's fwd on 12 Jul re a Commanding Officer's advice to a YO was just one such.
1) When you go to bed, hang your uniform on a hanger on the wall in front of you and take a look.
Always remember that it is the uniform and the rank it bears that commands so much respect and obedience.The person inside the uniform will have to step out of it someday.
2) At the end of a day's work, step out from behind the table and view the chair from in front of the table. It is the chair that gives the guy sitting on it the authority to pass orders.
The person wearing the uniform and the one sitting on the chair keeps changing. So the powers that flow from both are to be used for overall good and not for selfish purposes. Simple, yet profound. Easily forgotten in the heat & dust and humdrum of daily work.Falling into the trap of actually starting to believe that we are ourselves all-powerful is so easy ! Starting from OTA days, the GC in the first term picked to be course senior, the guy wearing the red sash of the duty corporal to the guy becoming an appointment in the Senior term. The batchmates are quick to bring back anyone to mother earth,who they feel is stepping over the line and being over-zealous in carrying out his duties. The same happens over and over again in different forms till the last days in uniform. There is an inbuilt system of traditional checks and balances that ensures things do not get too much out of hand. The same does not hold good in civvy street, so maybe that is why many of us find it very hard to adjust after hanging up the uniform. Just some random tboughts, as i prepare myself to break the news that The Daily Observer will be closing down for some time w.e.f tomorrow for rest
and recoup purposes. Extremely grateful to all the readers who have been so encouraging during this period. Jai Hind.
😎🙏
20 July 2020
Every now and then, in the middle of the routine posts on this site, there comes one which makes you sit up and notice.Time seems to come to a standstill between past and future - in the Now. KJS Sidhu's fwd on 12 Jul re a Commanding Officer's advice to a YO was just one such.
1) When you go to bed, hang your uniform on a hanger on the wall in front of you and take a look.
Always remember that it is the uniform and the rank it bears that commands so much respect and obedience.The person inside the uniform will have to step out of it someday.
2) At the end of a day's work, step out from behind the table and view the chair from in front of the table. It is the chair that gives the guy sitting on it the authority to pass orders.
The person wearing the uniform and the one sitting on the chair keeps changing. So the powers that flow from both are to be used for overall good and not for selfish purposes. Simple, yet profound. Easily forgotten in the heat & dust and humdrum of daily work.Falling into the trap of actually starting to believe that we are ourselves all-powerful is so easy ! Starting from OTA days, the GC in the first term picked to be course senior, the guy wearing the red sash of the duty corporal to the guy becoming an appointment in the Senior term. The batchmates are quick to bring back anyone to mother earth,who they feel is stepping over the line and being over-zealous in carrying out his duties. The same happens over and over again in different forms till the last days in uniform. There is an inbuilt system of traditional checks and balances that ensures things do not get too much out of hand. The same does not hold good in civvy street, so maybe that is why many of us find it very hard to adjust after hanging up the uniform. Just some random tboughts, as i prepare myself to break the news that The Daily Observer will be closing down for some time w.e.f tomorrow for rest
and recoup purposes. Extremely grateful to all the readers who have been so encouraging during this period. Jai Hind.
😎🙏
