What Secret Santa taught me about achieving what I want?
It’s been 3 years since I was introduced to #SecretSanta celebration after I joined the corporate world.
The concept is simple. You are assigned a person randomly and you have to buy a gift for them. The person isn’t aware that you bought the gift. I always went an extra mile to make sure that what I gift is loved by the person, but I always received mundane and boring things from other people. It is a bad feeling.
I thought, “ I do so much for whomsoever I have to gift without any expectation, but still why I didn’t receive anything good since last 3 years” I felt this unfair.
But soon I realized that it is my fault. Generally there is a trend that you share your wishlist within the group so the person can know what you want and gift accordinly. I never did that.
I kept assuming that whoever is going to gift me will somehow understand what I want and will gift me the best thing I can ever imagine. What I didn’t understand was that we often ourselves don’t know what we want, how can we expect others to just know what I would like to have on the best week in the whole year?
Though I did put extra efforts in completing my responsibility, I never shared what I want. What should I expect then?
I think this is an important life lesson. We are so busy with wrecking ourselves doing our job, we forget that we still need to ask also about what we expect.
The universe have menu. You need to demand from it. You get it if it’s available. You get something close if it’s not. But If you don’t you might not get anything.
Don’t be shy. Go ask.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ameya Agrawal (24 years) is a Motivational Speaker, Author, Entrepreneur, Engineer and was also conferred with a National Record for being the ‘ The Youngest Engineering Student To Write A Book On Self –Motivation’
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