Finally, with all sorts of motivation, courage and ditching the laziness, I’ve decided to make another post in my blog. Not wanting to acknowledge the time that passed since my last blog entry, I certainly do realize where I’ve reached since then.
Looking at the date, I came to know that today I’ve completed 17 months at Accenture, at Pune and in this so called ‘the IT industry’. The journey has, nevertheless, been fascinating so far. And the time does teach a lot of things.
Not that I’ve never written or wanted to write a post during all this time. But it always ended up saved as a .txt file in the hard disk or sometimes even unwritten and buried inside the memory, mostly because they were weird at times, unorganized, or very saddening (depending upon the mood that day!). But, today it rushed through me.
To do a recap, this journey has been colorful, mixed with all sorts of emotions. From the Luxurious and ‘crowded’ flat of Roystonea to the shreds and Loneliness of ‘Shrishti’ apartment to the Peace here at ‘Kumar paradise’, it did bring up a variety of thoughts and lessons to learn. It taught me how live and adjust with friends (now I mostly refer to them as ‘roommates’ or ‘flat-mates’, the terms that I myself used to despise) and still be all alone. It has taught me how to respect their egos and suppress your own, at times, to make peace. I did understand the importance of concentrating on the job done, rather than arguing upon who’d be doing it. This is, perhaps, what people call ‘growing up’.
But then, to ‘grow-up’ means a lot more at the social level than the personal level. Your age starts to get noticed, the responsibilities that waited for so long start to creep up on you and it’s only you who has to own your decisions and bear the consequences, if any. You can no longer wait for ‘the right time to come’ and sort the things out, instead, you now curse the pace of time. Sometimes, time goes so slow that you just want it to accelerate and take you forward (may be a few months ahead), and sometimes it goes so fast that you miss it for the tasks undone. Then, you realize that it’s just the matter of your mismanagement that you just can’t cope up.
Also, it’s not only you who is growing, but the others around you tend to do the same. And, the worst part is, they tend to develop all sorts of ‘negativity’ too, that you’ve been facing. You now curse them for not listening to you even when you’re the one too, who wants to be heard more than to listen to them. You earn, and so do they. You want to sleep, and so do they. You want to spend good time, and so do they. You want to watch a movie, they might not. You want to clean the room, they might not. You don’t want to go out shopping, they want to. You don’t want to go for biking, they might want to. It’s just that the frequency that used to match even without uttering a word, now doesn’t happen, even with a lot of persuasion.
From all the things that I miss from my college days, the important ones are the friends and the family, and the unimportant ones are the booze, stick, matamandir tea, chappan and Counter Strike. Topics of discussion have drifted from cricket, movies, girls, life to Companies, Promotions, Salary, Career and of course the inevitable, ‘The Marriage’.
Moments that count as the ‘good times’ today – Phone call of a ‘close-to-heart but far-from-sight’ friend, Facebook chats, Lunch time with colleagues, playing Pool, Outings with Friends. Hey, but these things were a day-to-day ‘schedule’ during college times, didn’t they!
The time has already begun to take big decisions, to hold the steering in your hand. I just hope to drive safe…. ;-)
