We Do Change…We Have To.

I still remember my first interview. I had just received an MBA and got a call from a sharebroking company.

It was in 2006–07, I Think. After the initial “tell me about yourself” the interviewer directly got to the core.

He asked me what major changes I would like to highlight about the ‘Indian financial sector’.

That time and even today, the Globalisation route, which India took [Thanks to the Late PM Mr Rao and then Late FM Mr Singh] is the biggest decision ever taken in Indian history which opened the doors of opportunities for India.

But today’s discussion is neither about globalisation nor the finance sector of India or the world.

Since the start of the second term of President Trump, we have been watching how the US and the world, which were once at the forefront, mentioned the benefits of globalisation and how they are backtracking now.

Higher import tariffs, insisting on making everything in-house and many other things.

This may be at a big level, but when we think at an individual level, we too backtrack on many things.

A few years back, when smartphones were not that common, I liked to have the same old feature phone with me. I didn’t like to scroll endlessly and switch through various apps.

But then, the growing use of apps and their importance, rather than ‘compulsion’, made me switch to a smartphone.

“WhatsApp” was one of the most hated apps, but today I don’t have any options but to use it. Half of the office work happens through this app.

As a youngster, I never used to like romantic songs, at least I was not drawn to the meanings of it and if at all attracted, it was the music.

But during graduation, when I understood and fell in love with so many and hit by a “strong one-sided, unsuccessful affair” suddenly I started liking the Ghazals, Sher, romantics, and Romeo-Juliet.

I started to find the deep meaning of every single word, I used to soak myself in the deep sadness of that singer or that hero/heroine who was pictured on it.

So, what is it that makes us change, the countries change.

Is it the compulsion that made India accept globalisation or is it the insecurity making the once strongest US backtrack from it?

Is it the convenience and wide acceptance of certain apps or is it the emotional entanglement with reaching maturity that makes one listen to the songs in a meaningful way?

Whatever it may be, we change or have to change, because, as they say,

Change’ is the only constant.