Internalizatoin ...

Whenever there is a problem, bothering anyone from our closed group, Dr. Das has the words of wisdom to calm him/her down.

One of his ageless advices have been, "internalize" the cause of the problem.

Problem - "You not getting a promotion ?"
Internalization - "What am I doing wrong ?"
Externalization - "Why is not my boss being fair ?"

Dr. Das would always advice to focus on Internalize part. As that's what one can control.

The application of this technique went too far this weekend, when few of us were enjoying an usual gossiping evening at Dr. Das's place.

One of us said, this terrorism thing is beginning to bother now ! The attacks don't stop. They grow wide and high profile. Formula for peace in kashmir and middle east is eluding the best of brains !

And all asked Dr. Das, how can we internalize this ? Are we even causing this problem to avert it ? In a way, challenging his theory of internalization of any problem troubling one.

In his own cool manner, he said - if it troubles you, you are a part of it. And if you are the part of it, you can play a role to avert it.

Moments later, on CNN playing the back ground - there was a program on how the terrorists of Pakistan get their funds to operate. And how it was coming all from India. Us !

All the pirated DVDs / movies on the streets that we buy, all the software engineers going to commercial street to exchange their foreign currencies to get 2 rupees extra, are funding the terrorists.

There the theory of internalization - proved !