A Workaholic Lesson..

Being with a workaholic helps you learn lessons. At least a lesson.

“Why are you working like this?, don’t you know it’s a Sunday today?”

“I like it, this one looks challenging” Workaholic

“Do you think you are paid accordingly?”

Workaholic gives a kind of look and prefers to be silent

“There is no point in working like this”

Workaholic started getting irritated

“Look, we are humans. And hence we need money to live in this world. To get money, we need a job. That is, we need a work to live. We should not live to work.”

“OK…OK” workaholic responded in an unfriendly tone which sounded like “you don’t understand”

“That doesn’t mean that you should not be sincere. You have to be sincere and you should put your 100% when you work..... With your present attitude, all the critical and urgent work will come to you by default , skipping people who were actually supposed to do that. “

Workaholic looked like “what you are telling is right” . But did not express it.

Workaholic did not drink water at times, did not eat at times, did not take breaks at times…and even sat at awkward positions with laptop…

“This will end up in trouble”

Workaholic sat as if nobody said anything…

One day workaholic slowly touched the back of the neck…it looked like there is pain

“This will end up in cervical spondylosis…and then you wont be even able to turn your neck. I had already gone through that, so I can tell you how irritating that will be. And then you will be FORCED to take a break. And that time, will your company take care of you? You know what happened to that colleague of yours ”

Workaholic did not ignore it. But paid attention…

At the end of the day, workaholic said:

“I have pain with my neck…Can you give me a massage? what should I do now? Can you teach me those neck exercises?”

“I don’t think you will do those exercises regularly, but I don’t mind showing you those”

Workaholic goes through what was suggested….giving proper support for the neck while sleeping, heat fermentation and light exercises….

Next day workaholic feels very much better and from the way things going around, it looked like workaholic wanted to give it a try…

Give what a try? Precautions?

Let me try working like yesterday and see whether it pains !

Sometimes people learn only thru hard lessons…