Gossip Politics and Minesweeper

Gossip, Politics and Minesweeper - The environment of any organization is primarily governed by these three elements. It has taken me some time to understand this truth about the behaviour patterns of people whenever they are together in groups whether it is in any organization, or office, or a large family. There is the element of gossip where people tend to engage in back stabbing and invent stories to get to the top. This builds into a formalized process which we call politics. This happens everywhere when number of people or groups of people are more. As soon as the number of people start increasing in the group(s) it gives rise to cut-throat competition. This does not lead to a healthy competition but it brings out the negative side of human behaviour. Gossip turns into politics and politics makes people cautious of every step they take or move they make. It is like walking through the "Minesweeper" Game's grid where you are not sure which step will result in the explosion of a mine. These mines are man-made as irrelevant, baseless and bitter gossip turns people hostile and insecure. The insecurity leads them to gossip and engage in politics which creates these mines. One never knows where one is treading and there can be an explosion in the form of an argument or mind shift or confusion that can lead to catastrophic situations. These mines can take the form of ugly mails that bash you up through the laptop screen or they can build into undercurrents that you will sense only when things turn critical. Life is limited by time. I have heard of very few people who cross the age of one hundred years. We are basically looking at a sixty to eighty year life span in total. The first twenty years are happy go lucky and it is only around the age of twenty five that people step into a job. So we are left with a time span of thirty five to fifty five years. The insecurity for these thirty five to fifty five years grows so much that people work on building the negative behaviour and emotions. There are many who will say they are securing the future of their progeny by engaging in this behaviour. The children will anyways be insecure as they will go through the same life pattern. When a child is born there is a share carved out in this world for him or her. He/ she has to find it. The inheritance has to be positive else the child will not be able to live a good and wholesome life. I am a strong believer of the fact that positive begets positive and negative begets negative. Competition should be healthy so that each one gets what he/ she deserves and not what he/ she tries to snatch through unhealthy practices be it any organization, group, office or family. Insecurities and negative behaviour culminates into negative energy and an explosion of the self (remember the mine of the minesweeper!)