Wednesday, August 10, 2011

What's Up With People and Being Stuck In The Past?

I have posted an entry before about letting go and moving on with your lives but at the same time not forgetting the journey so that you can learn from it. That is what I believed in and it will never change, Insyaallah!

However, I have encountered some events in the past where people are still stuck in the past and what they thought in the past and what they could have done in the past and what the past has to offer. Again....MOVE ON!

I would like to give an analogy for this whole idea of mine.

There is this one company which shall be called as Company A. Company A has Ms. Sweetheart as the Director. For the past 6 years, she was the one who build the name of Company A and it has been successful and people in the business know the existence and how successful the company has been. However, for the past 2 years Ms. Sweetheart has become different than what she has been when she started working in the company. She became more snobbish, more arrogant, more eluded. People in the company were not in favour of her anymore. She rarely seen in the office and when she does showed up, its chaos. Plus, she took advantage of her title in the company. Easy to say, it was an abused of power.

People were not very fond of her since that attitude appeared. People are getting annoyed and they were not giving her respect as before. To make the long story short, Ms. Sweetheart was asked to resign and she did. Her position was replaced by Ms. Apple. Ms. Apple was Ms. Sweetheart assistant before and that she knew what was going to happen and how to handle the company in absence of Ms. Sweetheart.

In making her way up in that business again, Ms. Sweetheart build a new company and was involved in the same line of business as Company A. Ms. Apple got her hands on this and told everyone in the company regarding the new company evolving in the same business line. Afraid of competitions, Ms. Apple and Company A began following every step of the way of Ms. Sweetheart's new company, Company B. After a few months, it was time for Company B to make its debut appearance in the business. Not knowing the sources Ms. Apple had the statement from the company for the press beforehand. She began to criticize, laugh at the statement and kept on judging what ever is written on the statement. All of this was resultant from jealousy and fear.

Out of the sudden the Managing Director from Company A began tweeting about how bad Company B is. Saying things which were inappropriate and immature. Ignoring all these, Ms. Sweetheart continues with her success and managing the company well.

So, what can we learn from the above?

I am saying the Ms. Apple and the Managing Director from Company A are stuck with the past. Once Ms. Sweetheart has resigned from the company they should not have bothered about what ever is planned by her. Criticizing, laughing, judging, following EVERY STEP were indeed a chicken act. They are immature acts and inappropriate. For me, they should have let go of the fact that Ms. Sweetheart is not a staff anymore. She has no concern in the company anymore. What they should have done is that to improve their own performance rather than laughing at other's work. If they are afraid of competitions then they should have upgraded their performance and their outcome/results and not by pulling someone down that drain that way.

I mean, lets be mature for once. Let go of the fact that the person is not under your concern anymore and let that person do whatever that she wants to do. She has children to feed too. She has bills to pay to. How is she supposed to pay the bills and put food on the table if she has no job? She has to find ways to put the food on the table. She has to find ways to pay the bills and the only way she knows how to do it is by the same business as her previous work.

Move on with your own life. Stop moving on in someone else's life. Stop following and analysing other people's life. You have to start to analyse your own life and move on with it. It has no meaning to be stuck in the past and not moving on because the clock will never wait for you. You have to run to catch up with it. You have to move forward to catch up with the time. There is no point looking backwards as the time is moving forward. So, MOVE ON!

p/s: I am kinda sick talking about this all the time but this is the reality. People are having a bad way of moving on.

Love,
MARL!

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