Jay Lagare

I’m a clutter person but I call it organized chaos. Or so I thought. This morning I woke up extraordinarily early. I got up and went over to my work desk and, in the dim light of dawn, surveyed the clutter. I thought to myself “Ah but I know where each and every thing is.” Myself replied “Yeah right. You don’t know where your ID is.” Smugly I returned “Oh but I know where it is!” A few days back I thought I had lost my UP ID but after some thinking I’ve decided I’ve left it at the gate of a friend’s village. So that’s that. I head over to the kitchen table to check out the revel bars I am going to take to the office. I counted them, checked them, and lo and behold! There’s my ID just sitting there on the table. Myself laughed at me.

It’s the season for giving. Now here’s an interesting thought: Potentially, giving is a negative economic benefit activity. And that’s no good. But if there’s giving, there is also receiving, a positive economic benefit activity. Considering both together, we get a zero-sum economic benefit situation which is not so bad anymore. But we haven’t yet considered goodwill which is generated by the two activities. And it gets even better, we can just give again what we received and so on and we could potentially have unlimited goodwill! Cool huh?

Darn! I think I’ve been studying too much :P