Detachment vs. Carelessness

                   Detachment  vs.  Carelessness

Carelessness comes when we are ungrateful to what we are doing and when we dislike our work.

Let us try to understand this. When CAs qualify their course and start practicing. Some of them may find their work uncreative and hence become unhappy. If we feel this way, we will be disinterested in the work and the work will become heavy. We will then want to avoid it and carelessness will follow. It is human psychology that all work in this world is neutral and it is who make it interesting. It is our attitude towards the work that interacts with the work to give us joy. It is not that singing or playing an instrument brings happiness. It is us who bring happiness in singing or playing an instrument. It is because a singer or an instrumentalist is happy, the song or the concert becomes joyous. Any activity per se is neutral. It is the performer who bring colors to it.

So, it is our attitude that decides whether we will be interested in the work. The nature of profession is not the issue it is our attitude towards the profession that will decide whether we will enjoy it or not. So, we rule out the possibility of becoming careless when we understand detachment because that is always the basic confusion. If we really want to enjoy the work we have to be detached and still caring because a work where we are not interested cab bring us money but not happiness.

Let us take it further. If we develop this attitude of becoming disinterested, whatever we take up, sooner or later, we will find it boring not because of the work but because of the absence of our interest in that. To be interested and careless at the same time is not possible and it is our interest that makes anything interesting.

When king Akbar expressed how salim’s fiancée Anarkali one requires the eyes of Salim. What the meant is that it is us who bring beauty to what or who we love.