Tough times don’s last, so are Corona times!

‘What lies before us, what lies behind us are tiny matters when compared to what lies within us’   - Oliver Holmes Wendall

The pandemic around us and multiple levels of fear injected into us has unnerved us all, to say the least. What scares us beyond a sensible limit is the way people around us interpret it and talk about it with no holds barred. The electronic media, with multiple channels, has spread the scare worse than the virus itself!  There is so much bombardment and exaggeration just to score a point or a little mileage over the next door neighbour. They seem to go one up to say, ‘I told you so’, ‘I was the first to say so’ and so on.  Well, in the end, what is it we are getting at?  Why are we doing what we are doing? If the ‘business’ is to give the news that would be so much better. Why then the channels bend backwards to give the ‘views’?


Well this kind of bombardment or exaggeration can be accepted as part of the bigger system. We cannot really stop the other but we can always spread around us lots of goodwill, bonhomie and counsel. There is at least a person before you and behind you who you can influence and change your way. To do so, you must look at yet another person and that is YOU.  If you can set right yourself and resolve to proceed on a path of self-discipline and rectitude, who can ever stop you?   To do so you can be anybody or even nobody. As students studying in an engineering college of repute your responsibility towards others and yourself is all the more pronounced. To start with, take up the following steps for the next 30 days and see how it will impact others.

  • Make it a point to follow the Corona guidelines painstakingly. It may prove to be irksome but then it is more important than anything else.
  • Lead your friends from the front. Good things have a contagion effect.  Let others follow you.
  • Think, Talk and Act responsibly.  Conduct yourself in your college campus as a paragon of virtues and model of an example.
  • Do not act privy to wrongdoing, mischief mongering and breaking rules.
  • Develop the muscle of discipline to adapt to changes in education delivery.

NMITBangalore which is one of the top 10 engineering colleges in Bangalore nurtures its students on how to be responsible inside the classrooms, out on the campus and far into the outside world. Its students have in turn made the College feel proud and gratified. Let the self-imposed discipline continue and show up as a model of personal example and citizenry.     

By Dr. N J Shetty, Ph.D., M.Com, MBA, MA(Psy), PG. DHRM, PG. DMM, LLB, CAIIB, D. TD, Pragya. Professor, Nitte School of Management, Certified NLP Practitioner, Certified Life Coach,      Certified OD Coach.     

            

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