Inspired by a series based on a real event, I use it as a parable to illustrate what happens in case we don’t properly guard our souls. Especially when we are bully targets, victims of workplace bullying and receive mobbing in our workplace. It is no different from “Chernobyl”. The Chernobyl* nuclear power plant is located in what is now Ukraine, in the city of Pripyat in the old Soviet Union
When the ‘soul of the plant’, the nuclear reactor, exploded, the reactor’s chief of staff ignored the erroneous measurements and assumed that the reactor was intact. Like when our “soul is “bursting” and we ignore the signals it is sending us and want to assume and believe it is intact.
Shortly after the accident, firefighters arrived on the scene and tried to put out the flames. They were not informed of how dangerously radioactive the smoke and debris was. ‘Like when we believe that friends and acquaintances can act as firefighters to our problem without informing them how dangerous our feelings are because of the situation at our workplace,. The fire inside reactor 4 continued to burn until it was extinguished by helicopters which dropped materials such as sand, lead, clay, boron into the burning reactor. The friends, as good as they are, will also try to throw water and sand but the fire will continue to burn.
The explosion and fire threw not only particles of nuclear fuel into the air, but also much more dangerous radioactive elements, such as caesium-137, iodine-131, strontium-90 and other radioisotopes. The soul fire carries the toxicity deep into the soul, in continuous explosions. The difference is its radioactive elements , is depression, post traumatic stress disorder, autoimmune diseases.
On the night of 26-27 April, more than 24 hours after the explosion, the committee was confronted with a wealth of evidence of particularly high levels of radiation and a number of cases of radiation exposure, was forced to admit the destruction of the reactor and order the evacuation of the nearby town of Pripyat, as when you are ‘forced’ to admit the destruction in your own reactor and order the evacuation of your own soul and psyche. To accept as true the multitude of “accusations” that the bully is making against you.
The water that had been hastily introduced into the reactor building, in a vain attempt to extinguish the fire, had filled the space under the reactor floor. At the same time, the red-hot fuel and other materials on the reactor floor had begun to perforate the floor and mix with molten cement from the reactor walls, creating a highly viscous radioactive liquid comparable to lava. The situation was exacerbated by materials dropped by helicopters, which acted like an oven, further raising the temperatures underneath. If this material came into contact with water, it would result in a thermal explosion, which would probably be worse than the initial reactor explosion. Friends, in a vain attempt to help you, will give you advice that, combined with your own need to listen to it, you follow to feel better. It will have exactly the same outcome as the one in the Chernobyl reactor shutdown. But because every situation is different, it is not certain that every time the advice of a friend can put out the fire, instead it can create a bigger and more radioactive explosion inside you, to “contact the water with the furnace” as described above .
To prevent this, just as soldiers and workers (the so-called “fluidizers”) were sent by the Soviet government, so you must do the same. Call in qualified professionals who will help you get out of the difficult situation, who will help you avoid and manage workplace bullying and mobbing.
The worst radioactive residues were concentrated in the reactor remains. The reactor itself was covered with bags containing sand, lead and boric acid, which were dumped from helicopters (about 5,000 tonnes a week after the accident). By December 1986 a large concrete sarcophagus had been built to seal the reactor and its contents.
There is no need for any man to build a concrete sarcophagus around him. More than that, no man needs to build a concrete sarcophagus in himself, to isolate himself from his family, his work, the people around him. To give up on life.
Avoiding and managing workplace bullying is a matter of personal choice. Let us use the Chernobyl story as an example of mistakes and errors that we ourselves should not make in our own lives. In any case, we owe it to our souls and ourselves.