Dear God,
I am not sure if I am committing sacrilege by going through with this article. Please do take it in good light and humor. I hope I would still be showered with your blessings.
I have not attended many pious meetings that have happened at thou holy altar. I used to attend the quarterly get togethers at the Bellevue temples and I guess the interest got drained when they stopped pizzas!! Anyways, I would like to throw light on some points that I have observed within our religion in the last year or so. I have also had a few questions that I keep asking myself but they just die away.
What can I look forward to in the next 1 year that would keep me pumped?
How important is emp...errr worshiper visibility when it comes to growth within the comp..err religion J? Let me make the question more precise. Should the worshiper make sure that he is ‘visible’ or can he trust that his boss(es)…errr Gods would be constantly searching for flashes of brilliance so that he gets noticed anytime there is a flash of brilliance.
How accepting are the Gods when it comes to accolades/smackolades for themselves.
How reactive are the Gods when it comes to accolades/smackolades for their worshippers?
Let me give you an example that I could experience. In 2008, there were issues with a project X that led to a specific customer Y point fingers at a X’s creators. It was the second day that I had heard about this issue and that very morning, I see one of my Gods waiting at my desk [apparently I was returning from a meeting..] to tell me that he hoped that I did not screw up. I believe “I hope you are not a part of this mess” would be quite close to the exact words that I heard to start with, along with other sentences. I was in a way appalled at the this Gods attitude of not giving me a chance to explain my side of the story but rather throwing a blatant judgment on me. Thankfully, I was not part of the mess. I shudder at the thought of being a part of that God forsaken mess at that moment!!! Note that this is a guy..errr God, who might have wished me a Good-Morning or a Good-Afternoon or a Good-[any time of day] not more than a number I could represent with the fingers[no pun intended]. Not that I would like to keep bragging about myself, but I have won quite a few accolades from the client and this guy has not once come over and given me a pat on the back. Its not something that I cannot live with but at that moment when he was standing by my desk, I felt it could or rather should be applicable the other way around as well.
Not to side track on this topic, lets move forward. Another point worth mention is the noise levels that you attract. As in the case of show business, does the policy ‘There is no bad publicity in show business’ hold good in our religion? Would a guy who manages his religious matters in an eternally calm manner get the same level of warmth and love and admiration as a guy who makes a lot of noise in his religion but ensures that it ends up in a calm manner? Would one be encouraged to trigger a storm and then enjoy the thrill of calming it down or would one be careful enough to not trigger a storm at all?
When it comes to meetings where all the higher mortals get together to showcase their godly achievements, in case the God whom I worship [or I am supposed to worship !!] does a piss poor job of highlighting the achievements of his worshipers and the rest of the Gods make celebrities of their worshipers, is it but natural for the worshiper to feel left out or thirsting a little more for the adulation and admiration that he could/should have got, or is he being selfish and unprofessional? Would it anger the God if the worshiper pointed this out to him so much that it would be considered a sacrilege?
Dear God, please help me. Amen!!
