Conditioning !

Its been some hard busy and trying times. Keeping track of all thats happening on the work front and balancing act on the home front has kept me on my toes ! Dealing with ‘difficult’ people who believe in shouting, swearing & lay a great emphasis on ‘doing’ rather than ‘doing it right’, has been an experience by itself.

As stressful as it has been, it has also brought about good levels of understanding ! I was reading Freedom by Osho, during a journey, and a strange connect got reinforced ! People behave the way they are conditioned to behave !

“It is said that when you tell an Englishman a joke, he will laugh three times. he will laugh the first time – when you tell it – to be polite. he will laugh a second time – when you explain it – again to be polite. That is the training of an Englishman, always to be polite. Finally, he will laugh a third time in the middle of the night when he wakes from a sound sleep and suddenly gets it..

People behave the way they are conditioned to behave, the way they are brought up to behave, the way they are expected to behave…” how true ! And when somebody behaves in a way i have been conditioned as ‘wrong’, well therein lies the rub and problems in reaching out ! Well, well, well, culture !

The weeks been hectic. Wife’s birthday came and went. She tells me she is happy with the way the day came and went ! I believe that. Or rather, i am conditioned to believe that ! Or rather, after its gone, i am a condition to believe that 🙂

The week ahead stares at me with some travel and loads of work. And i make a mental note to be better at keeping the momentum in this space !

Conditioning. That’s the word !

6 thoughts on “Conditioning !

  1. Sriram says:

    I have tried using different kinds of conditioners to improve the conditioning of my hair, but somehow they manage to go back to the same state of roughness as before. Genetic conditioning, perhaps!

    Kavi, now that I have chanced upon your blog, expect your worst nightmares to come true 🙂

  2. Sriram says:

    I have tried using different kinds of conditioners to improve the conditioning of my hair, but somehow they manage to go back to the same state of roughness as before. Genetic conditioning, perhaps!

    Kavi, now that I have chanced upon your blog, expect your worst nightmares to come true 🙂

  3. Swatantra says:

    People behave the way they are conditioned to behave..very true…

    Whenever i read OSHO, it seems so true and close to life…

  4. pria says:

    Kavi: Belated birthday wishes to her.

    People behave the way they are conditioned to behave !

    Well after all we know where we came from ain’t we??

    Conditioning continues unless we become self-conscious.

  5. Kavi says:

    Sri..welcome here ! I girding my loins for my worst nightmares !!

    Swatantra..yes ! They are conditioned. Osho, i always thought was a fake until i read his works !

    Pria..Yes we are all conditioned that way !

  6. I was surprised you will do a 1:1 between the englishman getting his joke and your treatment of the wife’s b’day! Made me laugh..

    happy birthday to your wife.

    🙂

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