Friday 7 March 2008

What Iam ….Better person or better professional... 30 sec was not enough…….

Hi All Nearest and Dearest….
I want to share an instance with all of you to help me out with your viewpoints. This story is just the resemblance of one real incident that took place few days back.
It was 8: 00 AM and I was getting ready with daily routine to reach my office schedule at 9:30.
I needed to make it fast as drive to my destination usually take almost 1 hour and that too if traffic allows, I needed to rush in any “CASE” as today I had very important meeting to attend for the new project assignment with the client. Everything was going fine I was 10 min ahead of my daily routine and can leave the house today with 10 extra minutes in my kitty.
It was Monday and my God! I Could not ask for the better start of the week with no red light during the course of the travel from home to office. I am not being able to see some of the familiar vehicles, which I normally saw everyday, might be because I am 10 min early today.
I had covered almost half of my journey and going strong at 60-70 km/h with no hustle whatsoever.
Now my office chair is only 15 min away and I can see the 20-storey building from the kms away. Now office was just 2 turns away and here what I saw on the first turn, an auto rickshaw upside down on the road side …........
When I saw that I was still at least 30 secs away from it suddenly a fight starts between a professional and person inside me.
I really wanted to help that person and in no time I have taken a decision to stop and help him out, but suddenly a thought came in to my mind what will happen to the project meeting, I will definetely be late if I would stay here to help him. For the next 10 second, I was thinking of these aspects only.
Now I was about 20 secs away from that accident and now I can clearly see the damage which has already been done to that individual and that makes my decision of helping him a bit stronger, than to not to. In next 5 sec I was only thinking of the nearby hospital for the first aid and I almost remember the nearest one as the area was quiet familiar to me. But again, next second the same thought came again in mind that what will happen to my job if I haven’t able to complete the meeting on the positive note . That could leads to the bad impression on my project lead and other team members. I know they will not be interested in any hell of the excuses. Now what should I do …should I help this person or not …
Now I am only 10 secs away from him and still fighting with myself what to do….and for the next 5 secs I was struggling to make the decision.

Finally, I decided to wait there for 5 min, and I can afford to do that as I was 10 min earlier than the usual schedule. I decided to wait for someone to come and help him. Luckily, few people came, started helping him, and took that person to the hospital, though I escorted them to the nearest hospital but did not wait there for even a single second.I started again towards the office but I was thinking of the accident until I reach the meeting,which eventually ends on a positive note as expected.
It’s been almost a month now but one things still haunts me, what would happen if those people would not came at the right time don’t know what I would do there if that would havee been the situation, may be the as expected the right thing as better person.....
I want you people to help me and suggest me the right solution। Although we all know what should be the right action but ….is the any other way out to face the situation.

Sachindra kumar