Shocking Bali

No, not a team building effort, just start of festivities

If you are coming to Bali from Boston, San Francisco, Podpulfrca, Paris, London, Pyongyang, Cologne, or even godforsaken New York; get ready for a total shock.

What?!

 

a) climate

b) traffic

c) language

d) food

 

None of these.

Much worse. Brace yourself. Be strong. Composed.

People are not normal here. All of them.

 

Probably they add something into the drinking water.

People are performing all the tasks as you and me and still have the time for each other, for soft joking, a load of smiles, wasting time with pleasantries. For instance, when waiting half an hour in the bank you finally encounter a beaming, sincere smile of a young lady and her apology “Good morning, Mr. Dusan, it must have been terrible for you waiting soooo long...” Well, then, even such an inpatient moron as I can be, can not do else but return the smile and ask her if her day is at least approximately as nice as she is...

 

I'm aware it's against our holly western business religious principles (a mortal sin, when I last checked) to waste our precious time for making life pleasant.

Wasting our time (life) being useful brings plus points.

Spending our time (life) being happy brings minus points.

As Dark Age of multinational corporations has reached it's zenith, now number of renegades who do not want to go by these rules is growing.

 

Can you imagine where this rebellion can lead?

At the moment most people do for their survival something that definitely is not making their lives heaven on the Earth. Doctors bitching about their patients who need prescriptions, paper pushing managers hating paperwork, lawyers going nuts over their lying clients, office apple polishers with brown noses hating their peers...

 

And some totally unadapted individuals are doing what they love to do. Those weird people obviously do not know the difference between hobby (pleasure) and job (suffer).

Soul craving for artistic expression makes a great artist and a lousy accountant.

Somebody lacking social skills but in love with carpentry would probably not make the best PR guy in town, but a terrific carpenter.

 

And person with severe case of maniacal devotion and addiction to scuba diving is maybe not the best choice for being a humble member of a bigger corporation (already proven), but can make a decent bonvivan style dive operator...