Life is beautiful

The sweet sound of the truth

It is so easy for a person, so drenched in falsehood to spread rumors about his own colleagues just to win puny little brownie points amongst his peers and his managers.

A good and a trusted friend of mine called up today and he had a wonderful thought to share.

Post my parting ways with Infosys a colleague of mine tried to spread rumors that I was asked to leave Infosys. I am almost certain that many of his peers and managers who knew me would have laughed at what he had to say. Also, how can anyone believe him anyways?

Infosys does not have a policy to fire anyone, especially if one is highly productive, is in CRR1/CRR2 and is respected within the organization and outside for his/her expertise. The only thing that can get someone fired from Infosys would be bad character and this exception does not apply to me, even remotely. Also, it is a fact is that there were multiple attempts made by the the management to try retain me. Any good company would want to retain its productive employees and I respect Infosys management for all that they did for me.

Well, then what intrigues me the most is the reason that would have made him dive into undesired torrents of falsehood? I guess he is the victim of his own upbringing to which there is nothing anyone else can do except himself.

As far as the wrong that is done to me goes, I have been blessed with the strength to face such situations and forgive him, if he would desire so.

I keep getting fillers from my network on what is going around and I choose to only address issues when I feel that the time is right. I ignored these things in the past but today, I am publishing this on my blog. This is not intended to put my dear ex-colleague on a lower pedestal but to help the readers understand that these are the things that might happen to them as well, when they are doing the right thing and are succeeding. It is the integrity and the strength of character that will help them handle such situations with ease.

One of my very close friend, Krishna Aleti usually says, “Let the falsehood make ten rounds of the world but be assured that it can’t face the truth in its own eyes”.

There is a beautiful painting where Time is saving the Truth from Falsehood and Envy. Sharing the same with you all.



Painting source: Wallace Collection, London (Public Domain)

posted by Mahendra @ 6:14 PM