Is it easy to say work-life balance maintenance is in our hands?

Hello everyone, hope you all are fine and enjoying the festive season at it's best. Our country has a lot over which we can feel proud and one of them is Indian festivals. The season of festivals brings joy and togetherness. People take holidays from work to visit their hometown and recreating memories of celebrating festivals which they used to do in childhood.

my recent visit to Victoria memorial Kolkata

Festivals are also a symbol of taking break from normal daily lifestyle and come together to share and celebrate what we have. Since joining my job, i have felt this thing very hardly. Earlier I used to go my home for festivals even though my college was far away from my home (~1100KMs) but at that time I was not constrained to take leave from anyone. No permission required, when to leave, why to leave and for how many days to leave. Only me is the sole decision maker.

On the way to office

But joining the job has changed this. You have to take prior permission for taking leave and that too depends upon your manager whether he will approve or not, and that too, you can take leaves for a limited time period.

I know changes in life are necessary and changing with life is a way to lead a happy life. But in today's competitive environment, people are so busy with professional life that their wishes, emotions, sentiments are somewhere lost. This is very easy to say for the motivational speakers to balance work and life but is it that easy as much saying it. The answer is "NO". It's not in your hands, whichever position you reach you have someone above you to lead you, to control you. That all depends upon that person only. How much freedom he gives to you and how much he understands you and all that comes with happy relations. But, while making those happy relations, many people forget that they have to create their good image not to spoil the image of other colleagues. This is quite a common thing to grow in corporate putting sniper on another shoulder.

But if you learn balancing those things, may be the things will become easier.

Thanks