Volatility

What do you do, when you feel the ground underneath moves fast, without your control and you wonder as what to hold on to and what's stable and that would save you ?!

For the past few hours I'm trying to come out of the devastating news I heard about my colleague, who lost her job today.

All business reasons apart, I see her as a person, a friend and that who was working with me, till today.

This morning she came back from her 3-week vacation. She had brought a gift for me and we were talking and joking about the things that happened, in the last 3 weeks. Then came the news! I couldn't believe it.

Putting myself in that situation, I don't think I'd be able to react the way she did. While she was agitating inside, it was very much visible that she is trying to cope with the sudden abhorrence around. Its very sad.

I wonder sometimes, have we as mankind come so far that our day-to-day requirements are so much and the rules we set to achieve them are so harsh that a slight slip never misses to get punished ?!

Equally, how can one give a bad news as this to one's face ?! I can't. I really can't. Its some body's career, some body's life, redefined, restructured !!!!

God, help her.