profession and sense of humour

Every pursuit or profession has its unique way of altering lives . What starts as curiosity in the initial days soon turns to be an incurable preoccupation and at some point morphs into another self …

If you observe your body language , your vocabulary and the tools and tackles that adorn your haversack you’ll soon realise that your trade is indistinguishable from you …

You go through this intense phase where you live the subject with alarming propensity, to such an extent , that any word that goes against it’s very grain begins to irk . One tends to distance from those who do not align with one’s thought process …If you are in this phase , good for you …because everything after this is going to be very different…

Different how ? …you ask …

The next phase is one wherein you begin to understand the whole process from a different perspective …You begin to connect the dots , looking back …and in a moment of epiphany …realise that a crucial part was missed

…developing a good sense of humour

The kind that informs a person , the difference between enjoying one’s profession Vs obsessing…