I was washing utensils, or should I say doing dishes?
Whenever I go near the sink in the kitchen, to put the plate I used to take food, I will try to wash whatever that is left unwashed - unless I have a meeting in the next 15 minutes. Of course, this habit started only after we stopped our house help (maid) beginning CoViD-19 first lockdown on Mar-2019 in India.
I have this feeling that if we all do this in a home, it will not be a burden on others in washing utensils. So I always do that, unless my wife yells at me that she is planning to do the dishes and did not want me to interrupt her plan.
I expect all the utensils (most of them are ever silver utensils) to be cleaned before it is left in the kitchen sink for further cleaning using soap. I do not like the soap liquid to go murky - it has to be very clean when I plunge the metal scrubber into it. So I ask all the members of the family to empty the leftovers (I - personally - hate to leave anything as a leftover in my plate. The only leftover would be well churned-out drumstick. I picked up this habit from my mother and she may be from our clan). I will ask them to rinse their plates in running tap water - which basically cleans their hands 50% as well - and then only leave the plate with little water in it so that it doesn't go dry.
Of course, nobody listens in the family - except my father-in-law - who sorta cleans halfway to claim the credit that he does not leave his plate for me to clean as it may be disrespecting son-in-law - though I never felt bad cleaning his plate. He is like 70+ and I have no expectations of any sort other than comforting the family in whatever way he does in his own innocent ways.
While I was washing the utensils I could see the soap liquid in the scrubber container was all murky. I hate wasting anything that is man-made without putting it into proper use and thus poured it out generally on top of the utensils and filled it with fresh water and soap concentrate. Mixed it and continued washing utensils.
I could see the liquid I poured on top of the utensils were of enough concentration that they were enough for me to complete washing the utensils left in the sink.
I had a quiet stare at the clean liquid I had mixed planning to use to wash the utensils.
And I thought to myself that is the seed I sowed! Now somebody else would be delighted to use later.
குடிச்சா புடிச்சு வைக்கணும்!
I used to tell my kid that whenever she drinks water in the jug, she has to fill it up for the others who may be in urgent need. So I will tell her "குடிச்சா புடிச்சு வைக்கணும்!" meaning "If you drink it!!! You brink it!!!"
The thought lead me into another arena of seeding people in a company. Today we have a huge resource crunch in the industry. This is because we did not seed properly. Now how to seed properly. To seed properly is to understand what "Seeding" is all about.
Seeds should not be differentiated. Every seed has a purpose. Some may be slow learners but they can also be resilient to changing environments. Some may be very bright but they also can be jumping frogs. The essence is to have a good mix of both. Many companies invested in healthy diversity ratios for quite some time now.
We have to simply go by a "first come first saved" basis - with very very minimal qualification scrutiny and invest in growing the seeds.
Many times what we think is not the right DNA for a company may just be the absolute right person for the sustained phenomenal growth of a company. But no one can see that because they differentiate the seeds - they do not see the tree beyond time!!!
Now, do you see the seed? Then treasure every seed that comes your way! Never discriminate! A seed is a seed!
Stop seeing seeds in terms of profit!!!
