A Chance For Change!

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility

Gandhi once said that you must be the change you want to see in the world.  Short and simple but it has a depth of meaning that can be implemented to any situation, be it in personal life, relationship, spiritual or the working environment.

With regards to the latter's situation, this quote indirectly defines what we as individuals want to achieve and in the process of achieving those goals, we ourselves have to strive towards it.  We cannot expect other people to do things for us, even if we are the superior and other people are the subordinates.  If however that does happen, we, firstly should have the humility not to claim that it was all due to our own efforts without giving due recognition to those who actually did the work for us, whether or not they are the subordinates.

Secondly, we should realize the fact that other people are doing all the work for us, should not be made a normalcy; in any case it should only be a one-off thing.  If not, for one, it will deny us the chance to put our own abilities to the test, the limits of which we will not know, until and unless we do so.  Plus, we should also realize that the people whom we push and shove our own work to, have work of their own to do.  As superiors, we should only require our subordinates to be our aides and definitely not our servants.

I pray with all my heart that Allah gives me light and guidance that, if and when the opportunity arises that I one day become a superior, I will be just and thank Allah for the chance to change!