Conformance

Conformance.

I first came across this word when I started my first job. My boss at that was giving me a short run through on the nature of my job when I noticed that the word was littered all over his little speech. And that I all I could remember thinking was, what the heck was he talking about, and what is this conformance thing? I could probably just asked him at that moment, but I did not. I believe, he would confused me even more, since I could not make out the meaning of the word from his little speech.

Then I found, conformance is to conform. And conform means to comply, to follow.
Being in the field that I was then, conforming was a necessity. We had to conform to the rules of the house, we had to ensure our outputs were of conformance to standards set, we even to ensure that we conform to our bosses whims & fancies. Occasionally we got to screw those sources for providing us non-conforming products, which we were not aware of. These were, of course, after we ourselves got screwed for our con-conforming outputs.

It was all part of the daily job. A game of conformance. I played it for almost for 5 years. Sometimes, I played it well, full of motivation, spirit, objectivity and focus. Occasionally, I just turn a blind eye, and let the non-conformance rule. Lately, conforming is just taxing me. I felt drained, and lost. After so long playing this game, finding to conform even the basics is just tiring. And limiting. A little too much conformance, and it's suffocating.

So I left. This game of conformance.

For now. How long will I leave it, I do not want to dwell on that yet. It might be forever, it might not be. All in all, it was the best language lesson that i had for conformance.

And now I open another game of conformance, for me to play.