This is bad.....Working late late nights

It is now 11:37:52 pm and I am still in the office because everything that can go wrong is going wrong. If there was one thing that stupid Murphy got right, it was his law. Poor sod, wonder what all he went through to finally hit upon this law.

Which brings me to a common strain among the knowledge workers of current India. We Indians are suddenly having it so good that we don't want to give any opportunity to lose it. And working like donkeys gives us the sense of not losing this.

There are two ways of looking at it. One, that we have been stamped upon so much and for so long that the outside world just did not realize what kind of potential is being wasted here. And literally all the work that is being thrown at us is just not enough to satiate the Indian corporate appetite.

The other way to look at it is that we drown ourselves in our work to forget about all the miseries that are facing us out there. An amazing outlet has opened up to vent all our frustration through. The flip side is we are losing out very badly on our personal lives. This has a very debilitating effect on our families and it is a vicious cycle. To forget all the problems we work harder and harder and because we work harder the problems intensify. The poor Indian is caught in a whirlwind of misery.

Where do we draw the line?