Sharp skills

In a country like India sharp skills are your surviving tool. By sharp skills I do not mean something that is taught in schools or colleges or something that one is born with. These skills are developed over a period of time. In a situation where you have just nobody to trust these skills are your guiding light. And we find ourselves in these kind of situations almost everyday.

These skills are quite common among the guys. The girls being usually brought up in quite a protective environment are somewhat lacking in these skills. But I would be contradicting myself by saying that these skills are in abundance among the housewives. The way they deal with the vendors while buying groceries and vegetables , their multi-tasking, their dominance while arranging a function at their place is somewhat quite admirable.

Among the guys its more of a practicality that can be seen. They just can't trust anybody so easily. A friend of mine arguing with the parking attendant on charging parking fees without a permit caught my attention. If you are not alert at any moment you can land up in serious trouble at times. These practical skills of cross-checking, dominance, strong voice, alertness, people management are your safeguards. Even if one is lacking in these skills, an effort made in acquiring these skills would not go waste. Its not really hard to acquire them as these can be learned from your day to day events and observations. The application of these skills at the right time with the right people in a right manner is where your presence of mind comes into play.

As the famous saying goes "Precaution is better than cure", so better protect yourself before hand than to land up in a trouble-some situation.