Master and Handlers

There comes a time in our lives when the well managed and orderly, draws its attention to us. Systems, procedures, the understanding of matters that matter by those that have been given the employ to matter the matter, anticipation of acts that once told or directed to be undertaken without repeated instruction or guidance, the reading of the mind by those in service of the one that has deployed them …

The list is endless and the expectations far too great. In all honesty we look to get an object or a managed individual that virtually has to become a replica of the person he or she works for - to be able to apprehend, to pre-empt the mind of the minded and eventually to beat his or her thinking to it …

That look, that unobtrusive gesture, that unsaid word … all to be understood and acted upon without causing unnecessary pressures on the master, who in all probability has little or no time to exercise his or her personal effort to oversee the chores given out. Some individuals read the master’s mind exceedingly well … they ease the process, the work the involvement of the person they think and work for .. leaving him or her to concentrate on their professional pursuits, their area of work, their reasons and their needs for the deployment of the attendants, managers or whatever else they may be called or addressed as ..

These individuals are not ordinary people - the handlers I mean. They have substantially greater work responsibility than the master. Their wrong, their faults, their mismanagement can cause irreparable loss to the owner. They are in fact the shadow image of their employer - in mood temperament and behaviour .. they are the front that bears the first assault - good bad indifferent. They are the ones that form the impressions of them who they represent. Their wrong is taken as our wrong. Their attitude is taken as our attitude. Their word is our word !

Which is why, representation becomes an enviable yet sensitive presence ..

Many an employer has been judged and ostracised because his or her representation has been faulty or wanting. This onerous job of representation becomes an ogre for those in the domain of public life. The follower, or the well wisher that binds his or her emotion to the public figure because of what he or she has associated the ‘figure’ with, expects and perhaps rightly so, to be acknowledged or reciprocated in the same vein that he or she has considered their affection.

The affection of the follower can never ever be matched with the interest shown by the ‘figure’. Admiration shall always be larger and bigger than any other. It is the feeling and matching that feeling by the ‘figure’ which is the failing, and one that shall never be looked upon as been brought to an equal plane …

And for this … the ‘figure’ can either show the heaviest of reciprocation, or live in the delight of his or her position without the bother or concern of those that in some way make him.

The numbers in such occurrences are difficult to match. Admirers shall always be in abundance … hopefully … the ‘figure’ shall … well … remain just that - a ‘figure’ ..

There are also some rather unique situations ! Were the admirer find a route unknown to the manager or handler for access or connect to the ‘figure’ without being taken into consideration, there is that belief and strength that would, if deployed, put the handler to shame or a few steps back.

This causes friction in a few ways.

The handler, slighted by this reversal feels insecure and perhaps verging on the not required category, which could be devastating for him. And two, the ‘figure’ would suddenly lose the option of referring any further matters to them, the managers, thinking and arriving at some conclusion that perhaps the services of the handler are not required.

Sensing the loss of a job with the ‘figure’ - which I imagine could be a concern of mammoth proportion - the handler then in order to keep his reputation and value alive, would play his master stroke.

Knowing of his or her easy accessibility to the ‘figure’, and knowing that the figure because of his or her reliance on them, would give them a definite ear, exercise this right of opinion .. their opinion on the master.

Coming from one that has spent several years in honest and trusted association, the master, writhing in the travails of paucity of time, readily accepts the opinion of the handler.

Result : the one that came in directly has been eliminated in one deft stroke. The position and the standard of the handler has been restored .. and not just restored .. it has been strengthened a hundred fold, because matters that may have been favourably ruled, now get disfavoured … and the reason for that lies directly with the handler in the eyes of the admirer …!!

Those then, that manage and handle them that be ‘figures’, finally turn out to be the masters. Their presence can hoist the dullest of ‘figures’ or destroy them.

It is often said : ’ keep your friends close, your enemies closer” ..

I say : ” keep your enemies closer and your handlers even closer “

Have a good day …  my love and affection to all those that have shown me affection and care .. you are my handlers … you shall be the closest to me !!

DiL