O I T R V M

OITRVM stands for,as you would have realized ---- Objects In The Rear View Mirror.

In the previous organization where I worked, I had the wonderful opportunity of leading a team of young and enthusiastic accounting professionals straight out of campus. High on energy and competitive, they were a bunch of go-getters. And as all high achieving youngsters, they had their own set of problems with people, peers, superiors, managers et al.

My oft repeated advice to them was...It takes different people to make this world and as we move along towards our ultimate goal, all these people, issues, concerns become Objects in the rear view mirror.

I sometimes wonder if this is actually true ! Do people , actions and reactions actually remain as bygones or do they revisit you time and again ? Does one want them to remain as OITRVM ?

If one were to correlate this to a drive on a highway, we do pass a lot of vehicles, towns, villages and fields. Some interesting...some not so.If something grabs your attention, you do look into the rear view mirror to catch a fleeting glimpse of the things you have raced past. Sometimes you reverse and spend sometime to enjoy them. If you like them, you tend to re-visit them sometime later.

This is the same with some relationships and I have a similar experience with some of my colleagues in the earlier organization.LAN and PVS....two immensely likeable people...Before I move on, let me give an insight into what these letters mean. Well !! Just the initials of the people ..makes it short and sweet. These initials would invariably be two or three letters.... One letter as an initial is very ambiguous and four letters a strict no..no.

Okay..now that you have the idea of what these three letters mean, let me proceed.

Yes.. LAN and PVS are two extremely different people with possibly divergent views. One, an immensely talented communicator and the other rather quiet but with a subtle sense of humor. Both with responsible and energy sapping corporate positions but with an equal amount of people friendliness. One on the wrong side of the thirties and the other the right side of forties...but both on the perfect side of life.

Why these two people form a part of this write up is purely because of the influence they have had on me in the course of my career. Things that one watches and learns, things that one assimilates in the long discussions that we would get into. These are people you would not want to lose contact with irrespective of where one is or what one is doing.

That is when the writing becomes much clearer "Objects in the rear view mirror are much closer than they appear"