Learning and personal development Activity at MMRT42, August 9, 2010

On Monday morning (August 9^th, 2010), Chairman Prasanna realises that its the first business meeting of the year and decides to start it off with a bang. Recollecting an obscure email sent by LAPD convener Tr. Sandy, he shoots a mail off demanding that a Learning and personality development programme be conducted that evening at the Business meeting at the MCC.

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Thanks to a very enthusiastic and committed Area LAPD convener Tr. Gitesh Agarwal of MSRT 159, last minute preparations were made for a vision wheel exercise to be conducted. Gitesh himself conducted the very well attended programme.

While the preparations may have been somewhat hurried the programme itself was not and while some hard lessons were learnt the fellowship and bonding increased a great deal on that single evening. What wonders acrimony, name-calling, accusations, cribs, complaints and whines can do for fellowship! Trs. Hari, Vikram, Chetan, Prasad, Sandy, Mahavir, Prasanna and Suman were among the several who will carry the bonding of shared punches...I mean memories of that memorable evening.

All in all, 42 reiterated what we knew all along, but in a much needed organized and validated format. 42 needs to focus more on smaller community service events that bring in more participation in smaller groups. Being a large Table, getting everyone together for a single event is tough. While there have been events where 10 to 11 Tablers have been present, there have also been events where only a single Tabler has been present.

Tempers flared, lessons were learnt, most were in denial, and everyone thought they knew what they were talking about. In the end however, 42 came together as only 42 can – with camaraderie and fellowship as the hallmarks of a great Table.

Our most sincere thanks to Tr. Gitesh who patiently endured taunts, barbs, some stupidity, outright animosity and escaped a few brushes with death, yet bravely soldiered on to complete the LAPD programme well late into the night. It is unlikely that he would have ever conducted such a long programme so late into the night.

He had a very close brush with death in the form of Sq. Leg Prasad who came in briefly to the meeting but did not stay for the programme. We hope Tr. Gitesh only takes back pleasant memories of 42.

Chairman Tr. Prasanna, who sought answers at the beginning of the day, was regretting that he had asked the questions, but was ultimately happy that there was a scapegoat to write a report for him.