The Idea of Balancing Work and Life is too Mechanistic for Issues in Emotional Milieus; Better to Blend and Bond to Bypass and Bust Barriers
Ram was on his way to a mall one evening when he decided to drop in on his close friend Krishna. He wanted to check how Krishna’s preparations for the planned management course in the USA were progressing. Ram was aghast to see Krishna with dishevelled hair, crumpled clothes, and worry written large on his face. “Hi, my friend. How are plans progressing for your USA sojourn?” “Oh, Ram, I’m so glad to see you. You have come by at the right moment when I need your advice, like a prescient angel.” “Tell me what problems have you created? Sorry, that have arisen?” “Not one problem, I am facing many. There are fires burning on both the home and office fronts. I am at a loss to decide how to balance work and life.” “Where did you pick up that most impractical idea of balancing work and life? Let me first uproot that from your mind in order to avoid the turmoil you are in now and will get into in the future too if this archaic idea of ‘balancing work and life is not eliminated from your min