I am sure, the page viewers of this abbreviated title of the post on my blog will be surprised. Rightly so, because it does not carry any meaning. The full form of this abbreviation is Officer Like Quality. In most of the disciplined forces in general and the army in particular, the training programmes for officers includes an input, which prepares them to behave like an officer. In some advanced Western countries this training is known as finishing course as the personality of the officers is polished and hence it comes at the end of the formal training.
In this elite programme, officers are taught to improve their personality. This word is toady misused as we think that only the physical appearance of an individual constitutes his personality, which is only partially true. Besides the physical appearance, personality also combines sense of dress, moral stature, culture and spirituality. The colour of skin, height, descent, caste, religion etc are immaterial before the above good traits.
So the trainee officers are taught how to dress, how to shake hands with others, how to smile while meeting somebody, how to reply even when not obliging somebody, how to be cooperative with others and how to avoid being a bore in the company of others. The trainees are told how to behave with their seniors and juniors. Remember, do not we teach these behavioural goodness to our minor children? How much they imbibe, depends on the seriousness of the parents. If they mean business, their wards will thank their parents in such finishing courses for having them taught to be so since childhood. Contrarily, the children of non-serious parents go wayward and so the later training go in waste to shape them ideally.
It is therefore necessary that we, not only inculcate good qualities in our kids but should also understand the true meaning of ‘personality’ and frame up ourselves accordingly. Perhaps then only we shall make India a better country.
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