"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone "
- Ayn Rand
A voice reminded me it is now 20 years since i started my working life. Will there be a celebration, a party, a cake? Perhaps an award ceremony followed by long speeches? No. Thank goodness. Nothing will be organised or pre-meditated; as this can cause disappointment or at its very worst, deep injury. Instead in true RubiRed style there will be moment of quiet reflection and contemplation.
Much to my relief and also that of my parents, I did end up with a proper job. I worked for large corporations (including a spell in the civil service). Here I met with the very sharpest of minds around who challenged and progressed my thinking, ideas and solutions, but unfortunately I also met with the very worst of human nature too. So the balance of life or symmetry and patterning system of opposites played out fairly.
20 years ago an argument started, between me and my father. It was just after I had graduated. He said we would drive out to visit a local large engineering company GKN Aerospace. There unannounced we would ask if they had any jobs for a physics post graduate as my father had some connections there.
The suggestion to me was absolutely horrific and I refused to do such a thing. I would not be acquiring any jobs through connections. Only I would hold the reins to my destiny.
Roll forward 20 years later to the present day and for the first time in my life I stepped into the GKN Aerospace building. It has now become a spiritual oasis, a Sikh temple. The frenetic sounds of engineering past are now replaced with the meditative incantations for peace, harmony and spiritual guidance.
and what of the future, the next 20 years?
Frighteningly I don't know, I just don't know anymore.
"Shantih shantih shantih"
- The Wasteland TS Elliot, taken from the Vedas
- Ayn Rand
A voice reminded me it is now 20 years since i started my working life. Will there be a celebration, a party, a cake? Perhaps an award ceremony followed by long speeches? No. Thank goodness. Nothing will be organised or pre-meditated; as this can cause disappointment or at its very worst, deep injury. Instead in true RubiRed style there will be moment of quiet reflection and contemplation.
Much to my relief and also that of my parents, I did end up with a proper job. I worked for large corporations (including a spell in the civil service). Here I met with the very sharpest of minds around who challenged and progressed my thinking, ideas and solutions, but unfortunately I also met with the very worst of human nature too. So the balance of life or symmetry and patterning system of opposites played out fairly.
20 years ago an argument started, between me and my father. It was just after I had graduated. He said we would drive out to visit a local large engineering company GKN Aerospace. There unannounced we would ask if they had any jobs for a physics post graduate as my father had some connections there.
The suggestion to me was absolutely horrific and I refused to do such a thing. I would not be acquiring any jobs through connections. Only I would hold the reins to my destiny.
Roll forward 20 years later to the present day and for the first time in my life I stepped into the GKN Aerospace building. It has now become a spiritual oasis, a Sikh temple. The frenetic sounds of engineering past are now replaced with the meditative incantations for peace, harmony and spiritual guidance.
and what of the future, the next 20 years?
Frighteningly I don't know, I just don't know anymore.
"Shantih shantih shantih"
- The Wasteland TS Elliot, taken from the Vedas
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