In life, we're often told to set our priority right.
The first time someone said this to me, it was when I was 15. At that time, I was a wayward teenager who doesn't have a care in the world.
I was always doing what I thought was "right". Never listening to adults' advices cause I find them naggy and that all they said was rubbish. I was hanging around with people whom I thought was friends. Together with those friends, we did lots of things. Stupid things I'll say.
Fighting, shoplifting, smoking, spouting vulgarity, vandalizing. Once, I even tried to run away from home.
It was amidst all these that one day, my Aunt Stella sat me down and told me : "You have to set your priority right." She gave me a Parker pen for my birthday, along with a note telling me to set my priority right. Even since then, it was a pen I've always treasured. Up till now.
The point that I'm trying to bring across is that, everyone has his/her own set of priority and it is really important to set it right. But then again, to each his own.
I got pretty upset recently over a team member while doing a particular project. We haven't got our conclusion done but there she was trying to edit and make her part right. Due to the limitation of length for our report, I have no choice but to cut away some of her part. I could sense her unhappiness when I first told her about it. Well, I know that there's nothing wrong with her trying to make her part perfect. But to me, her priority is not right.
At that moment, our priority should be to get our conclusion done with and should there be time and space, we'll add in the cut-away part. I told her that several times but I guessed it fell on deaf ears.
Yes, I have to admit. I did kind of over-react. But to me, this is intolerable. Here, let me give you an analogue:
Someone is in an accident and is not breathing. Instead of doing CPR on that fellow, you are applying plaster to the cut on his finger.
So there goes. I hope you get my point.
"Set your priority right when the need arises"
