Simply Riaz... Simply Myself...

I was shocked to hear the news! One of my good friends who worked with me in my first IT company died due to brain haemorrhage. And the reason given was due to abnormally high blood pressure arising out of work stress. Only 29 years old, I have known him as a person who enjoyed life, had a great sense of humour and a never say die attitude. Unfortunately, the last attribute cost him his life. I learnt that the last 3 days of his life were spent at office almost 24 hours a day with high stress and tension over a project going live in Production. He is survived by his wife and a 6 month old baby. However the stress for his family did not end there. He was working in a remote country in northern Europe and it took almost 10 days for the family to bring back the body to India after post-mortem and completion of admin formalities. After all the pain that we undergo to go abroad, work and earn money, such ends can be really demoralizing. We have been hearing about this stress factor at work now and then. Several major companies in India and Singapore have now started to promote the importance of managing a balanced work-life relationship now. But on how far we realize the importance of containing personal stress is really a question mark. We feel sorry for the stress related deaths happening around us, talk about it for sometime and then forget it altogether. We never give a second thought that the same thing might happen to us anytime sooner or later. Its time to put on our thinking hats and make a wise decision before its too late for ourself and our families.