Teamwork

      Team means Together Everyone Achieves More! Teamwork is the ability to work together towards a common vision. It is the ability to direct individual accomplishment towards organizational objectives.  It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.

  When we talk about Teamwork we generally mean different things. For some a team is a group of people with a shared purpose. For others a team must also have a deadline. For others a team must also embody some degree of co-operative working. If we are really serious about improving teams and teamwork then we need to get more rigorous around what we actually mean. 

  Like everything in this universe, teamwork has several advantages and disadvantages as well. One of the advantage is that it encourages group support and co-operation and teaches the group members about tolerance and understanding of different angles and points of view. Weaknesses of one member can be supported by stronger members which will make the results better and more effective than a person doing it individually. It can reinforce the notion that two (or more) heads are better than one. Also when a group of intelligent people is talking about one common subject and looking for best solution they usually find the answer to their questions. Why? Because we are all different and while speaking one mind is stimulating another one and that's how the best ideas and solution usually comes up during brainstorming.

  Disadvantages of teamwork include when working in a team there are no losers and no winners. That, despite of obvious advantage (no one loses anything), can be a big disadvantage because no one takes a blame and no one can really feel  good of the gained success. If the task is assigned to a group which does not enjoy doing work they would assume that other members of the group would do it but in fact the task would be left unfinished. Teamwork also leads to interdependency as tasks are divided among the workers but if one worker is absent or unwilling to work, the entire group will have to suffer. Not all members of the group will undertake their tasks on time and can let the entire group down. Not all members will have the same strengths and weaknesses. If ideas of different members conflict, it can have very adverse effect on the performance of the entire team.

  Despite having many disadvantages, the advantages of teamwork outweigh them. There is a famous saying,” Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success” which shows the importance of teamwork.

“We do not enjoy our work, only our leisure”. How far do you agree?

    Leisure, or free time, is time spent away from business, work, and domestic chores while work can be defined as physical or mental effort or activity directed towards the production or accomplishment of something. There is no doubt that leisure does give us a lot of pleasure and that all of us enjoy our leisure moments but the above given statement is in the extreme. There is a famous saying, “All work no play makes Jack a dull boy but al play no work makes Jack a bored boy”.   

  I do agree with this statement but to a very little extent. If it were totally true, then life will cease to be a pleasure. This is because, we spend the greater part of our lives, and usually the best part of everyday, working. Man leads a complex life. He works to support himself and his family. During his non-working hours, he rests and spends the time with his family and friends, or with his hobbies. Many people wish that they do not go home and keep on doing work as they enjoy it the most. I read about a millionaire a few weeks back who became rich by winning a lottery. He left his job and started doing one of his hobbies but after sometime he became bored and became employed once again which shows that it’s a human nature that too much leisure can make a person bored and make him revert to his work.

  On the other hand, most people who are forced into doing some sort of work they do not want to do, are often found saying that they hate their work and they do not feel engrossed in what they are doing. Another common statement they make is “I can’t wait for the next weekends to come”. A wise man has said, “Find a job you enjoy doing and you won’t have to work a day in your life”. This statement clearly shows that those who do work according to their will feel like having leisure rather than doing work but those who do not, clearly see their work as a burden.        

I think people need both the discipline of work and the freedom of leisure. It is quite natural to feel that we only enjoy our leisure because during our free time, we are our own boss. But I think if each of us suddenly becomes rich and we are given a choice between "all leisure" or "work and leisure", we would choose to enjoy the joys of both work and leisure.

Professional sportsmen are more interested in making money than playing the game. Do you agree?

   I agree to a lot of extent that the passion of playing among the sportsmen is diminishing as the lust for money is increasing among the players and the money received differs from game to game. Nowadays everyone hankers after money and professional sportsmen are no exception. Sports is the only bread and butter they have but most, if not all, players are increasingly sidelining their duties, to play for their national team at first priority.

  In today’s world, sportsmen prefer to play in different leagues or do modeling or receive sponsors from different famous branded companies in order to accumulate huge influxes of money in order to support their ever increasing extravagant lifestyles. These deviate them from their original responsibilities.

  I am also in the opinion that by playing for the national teams, the players do not receive as much money as they would by playing in a league. To counter this, the national boards should try to raise the funds given to the players. This would lessen the excuse made by players that they do not get enough funds by playing for the national teams. This is why they play in different leagues and mostly become unfit or injured when it comes to play in the national teams. The players who are unable to play in leagues revert to illegal means which could be intentionally losing a match in match fixing or not perform well to receive money from gamblers. This means that for the sake of money, they betray and sell out their own nations.

  The best players who become brand ambassadors or get sponsors as well as those who are paid huge sums of money just for appearing in an advertisement or coaching a rich person’s child for sometime prefer to do these rather than playing the game. They get money by just sitting in home and the sum they get is many times greater than the amount received when they play for their respective nations. This greediness encourages them to stay at home.

  This is why I am in the opinion that money has become the most important thing for most of the sportsmen who do not even feel remorse when they double cross their own nations and people.    

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Professional sportsmen are more interested in making money than playing the game. Do you agree?

   I agree to a lot of extent that the passion of playing among the sportsmen is diminishing as the lust for money is increasing among the players and the money received differs from game to game. Nowadays everyone hankers after money and professional sportsmen are no exception. Sports is the only bread and butter they have but most, if not all, players are increasingly sidelining their duties, to play for their national team at first priority.

  In today’s world, sportsmen prefer to play in different leagues or do modeling or receive sponsors from different famous branded companies in order to accumulate huge influxes of money in order to support their ever increasing extravagant lifestyles. These deviate them from their original responsibilities.

  I am also in the opinion that by playing for the national teams, the players do not receive as much money as they would by playing in a league. To counter this, the national boards should try to raise the funds given to the players. This would lessen the excuse made by players that they do not get enough funds by playing for the national teams. This is why they play in different leagues and mostly become unfit or injured when it comes to play in the national teams. The players who are unable to play in leagues revert to illegal means which could be intentionally losing a match in match fixing or not perform well to receive money from gamblers. This means that for the sake of money, they betray and sell out their own nations.

  The best players who become brand ambassadors or get sponsors as well as those who are paid huge sums of money just for appearing in an advertisement or coaching a rich person’s child for sometime prefer to do these rather than playing the game. They get money by just sitting in home and the sum they get is many times greater than the amount received when they play for their respective nations. This greediness encourages them to stay at home.

  This is why I am in the opinion that money has become the most important thing for most of the sportsmen who do not even feel remorse when they double cross their own nations and people.   

Jealousy

   “I hate myself!” said a seventy year old guy to himself who was sitting in a corner of the freezing prison cellar. Farooq was recollecting his sad memories which had made him loose everything in life. He knew that none of this would have happened if he hadn’t become jealous.

  Forty-five years back, he fell in love with a beautiful girl named Reem. Farooq would have done anything for her but she loved Farooq’s best friend, Sameer. Farooq and Sameer were best friends since childhood, but the feeling of jealousy shattered this strong relationship completely. Like a normal person would have done, Farooq proposed to Reem but she refused the proposal and told Farooq that she loved Sameer and when Sameer proposed to her, she gladly accepted it as was expected. It was the worst moment of Farooq’s life and it was as if the land under his feet had been pulled away. For him, it meant the end of the world. This was a heart rending moment for him and a fire lit in his heart against Sameer.

  Farooq did not show any sign of malice towards Sameer but deep inside, the fire was intensifying in heat. Whenever he saw them together, the fire of jealousy enraged him. He started plotting against the two young love birds and finally devised an evil plan to separate the young lovers.

  The plan was to invite Sameer and Reem to a dinner than force Reem to give up Sameer but if she does not, than he would murder Sameer. When Farooq gave the engaged couple the invitation, they gladly accepted it thinking that their friend was happy for them.

  At the given date, Reem arrived with Sameer in his car at the venue where Farooq had invited them to. When they entered the room Farooq was waiting in, he greeted them and told them with a forced smile, “It is a great pleasure for me that you two could come. Please have a seat.” locking the door behind them. He then took out a pistol from his pocket and pointed it at Sameer and asked Reem that whom she loved more to which she replied in low and scared voice, ”Sameer”. Enraged by this reply, Farooq loaded the pistol and shot a bullet on Sameer’s heart. Reem screamed as the lifeless body of Sameer fell on the floor. She rushed towards him and wept for sometime after which she started laughing out loud. When Farooq saw this, he knew that she had gone insane. He came to his senses when he realized what heinous act he had committed after which he called the police.

  After a while, the police arrived and after breaking in the door, they arrested Farooq on charges of committing a murder. A lively group of friends became ruined just because of jealousy. Tears started running down his old wrinkled face as he regretted his past.