Day: September 7, 2019

Ride sharing

~ osasuoviawe

I want to share one thing that works for me when I have to ride with a senior colleague.

Typically, there is always a niggling feeling that I need to be engaging, interesting and leave a lasting positive impression. Enormous needless pressure.

So I thought of a way to manage such situations and eliminate the accompanying discomfort.

These days, after exchanging pleasantries, I just express myself as honestly as possible. I say something in the lines of “There will be periods during this trip that I will have nothing to say and have a strong feeling that I need to say something to continue conversation, is it okay if I just keep quiet in those times?”

Usually, the answer is positive and it frees me up to be myself.

Try it or try something that is more authentic to you. It is not okay to become something else, in order to be with someone else.

– Osasu Oviawe

Traditions

~ osasuoviawe

Luke 6:1-5
On a sabbath, while he was going through the grainfields, his disciples plucked and ate some heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands. But some of the Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is not lawful to do on the sabbath?”
And Jesus answered, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God, and took and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those with him?”
And he said to them, “The Son of man is lord of the sabbath.”

Homily:

Traditions were set in place by humankind for a reason. They are not the reason humankind has a place.

When the tradition no longer serves humankind, move on.

It is not traditions that connect us to our ancestors, our genes take care of that.

Traditions are anchors for yesterday’s stories. To move forward, it is okay to lift the anchor into your boat, without necessarily cutting it off.