LIVING IN A WORLD OF PROFESSIONS

LIVING IN A WORLD OF PROFESSIONS Set Your Priorities Right It is the lack of intellectual development which has resulted in all those problems that are common in our present age, for example, tension, unnecessary disease, lack of peace of mind, and lack of happiness. W E are living in a world of professions. In the present world, it is mostly your profession that defines your identity. Everyone is Mr Profession or Ms Profession. The profession-oriented life is the generally accepted lifestyle of every man and woman. Having a profession means living according to the dictates of the “money market”. Everyone tries to develop a professional skill that enables them to be a sharing partner in the flow of money in the market. This culture has resulted in a new phenomenon that was absent in former times, that is, living in accordance with external requirements and setting aside internal requirements. In other words, you no longer live according to what is required by your inner nature. The result is that while everyone is a developed personality in terms of their profession, in terms of their own nature, everyone is an underdeveloped personality. Choose a person at random and ask him about his profession. He will readily give you specific answers. If you speak to him about his professional subject, he will give you a detailed answer to every question. But, if you ask him about those issues which pertain to human life, that is, non-professional issues, then you will find that he is not mentally prepared to discuss this subject. Once I was in a European city where I happened to meet a learned man. When I asked him about his profession, I found that he was well-disposed to share information with me. I learnt a lot from him regarding his professional field. But, at the same time, he was uncomfortable with his wife and admitted that he had decided to separate from her. I asked him the reason. He replied with some confidence: “She is an adamant person and I don’t like adamant people.” I said that his wife was doing a very tough job and so she had to be adamant to be successful at it. But, I failed to convince him. The reason was that he knew the science of profession, but was quite ignorant of the science of life.