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Advise of Farooq Peer

 I am reproducing below a post of Shri Farooq Peer, who retired as Commissioner Secretary to the Government of Jammu & Kashmir. It's worth reading and absorbing.

I enjoy the privilege of advising young people, because I am old. Here is a piece of advice to our young officers; IAS, KAS included. Dr. Shahid Iqbal has been sent on a UN assignment. We naturally feel proud. This is what our young officers should be doing; sharpen your skills, broaden your knowledge base and widen your mental landscape, through variegated experiences. Take lessons from the past but don’t get mired in it. Don’t allow yourselves to be distracted by unnecessary controversies. Your achievement is just one feather in your cap, howsoever bristling that feather be. Don’t allow it to be a mill-stone round your neck. Besides, as officers you are meant to serve people within a given framework. Your ultimate success depends on how best you can do it. You have no messianic role to change the world. If you think you have, then leave the job. No bureaucrat has been a Messiah; he cannot be.
Naseehat gosh kun janaN ki az jaN dost tar daraNd/ Jawanan e su’adatmand pind e peer e dana ra. (Hafiz Shirazi.) (Listen carefully to my advice ,my dear because the benevolent youth holds the advice of a wise old man dearer than his life.)

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