What is your value?
What is your value? What is your achievement? When do you feel like an achiever? Is it when you have happiness? Or satisfaction? A sense of fulfilment? A sense of purpose? Why do you feel ecstatic when a job is done? And anxious when another is not? Like a sinusoidal wave your elation and deflation ebb and flow. The medals on the chest, the stripes on the shoulders, the commendations over the pocket - do they represent accomplishment? For someone it is a Padma. For someone it is a Pulitzer. Someone covets a Nobel. Someone cherishes an Oscar. People want to approach a Dias to a thunderous applause. To get draped in a shawl and presented with a bouquet. To share their story and secret to longing ears and gaping mouths and expecting eyes. In school a pat on the back would fire you up. In the workplace a carrot would keep you moving. Name and fame would come as you would do jobs assigned to you. And credit would be shared and stolen. Appreciation and ackn...