Everything can teach us something

I had a little tiff at work today. Nothing like how I used to get maybe an year or so earlier. Maybe two years earlier. I have grown since those days. It's true these things still affect me. I am not bulletproof in an emotional sense.

Things said to me, permeate.

They get to me. I get angry about certain things. Not as much and for as long as I used to, but still. As I said, not bulletproof.

There are times, when the only thing that you should say is 'OK' and let it go. Today was one of those times. So, I did. I said OK and removed myself from the discussion. My office friend went on for a while and then stopped speaking.

We had a tiff about how one should remain available during holidays. Or, how one should handover before going for a holiday. It started with me mentioning how when no one had closed any of the things I had assigned to them before going for my earlier leave.

I talked to Prerna about it and she told me, you should write things down in an email. You will have a frame of reference and a log. And once you return you can ask who has done what.

Prerna is brilliant.

At the moment of course, I was a little angry.

I have calmed down now. And now I think, this is brilliant. Through this unpleasant thing that happened at work today, I found a better way of going on leaves.

Everything, good or bad, can teach us something new. And that is always good.