Saturday, April 17, 2010

Motichoor ke Laddu

Partly because I have a sweet tooth, partly because motichoor ke laddu is one of my all-time favourites and partly because what I'm about to blog is something I wouldn't want to forget anytime soon, I have the named the post so.

It's been a while since i put the finger to the keyboard "for the blogging purpose" (inspiration for the use of this phrase to be revealed in a while) so I'm thrilled to have finally got inspired. After nearly a month, the perfect motis (pearls) are just popping out of the keyboard, it seems. So here goes.

Friends are my strongest link to sanity. Truly. In my world there are currently 2 people - Me and the Rest of Them. That's what it feels like most of the time - like I'm fighting a lone battle with the rest of the world. It's those gtalk chats and phone calls stolen during work hours, the SMS rallies in the middle of the night, the occasional but raucous dinners in swanky restaurants in the city and the even more occasional surprise cross-continental calls, that make it all worth the while.

College life is now this distant memory, almost like as if it happened in another life. The world seemed so much simpler then, almost like a toy world. Things were either black, or white, or any other colour which someone seemed to have figured out and told me.Barely a year into the corporate world and I find my settings changing hues so rapidly, I feel stunned and clueless most of the time. Far from being able to share my true feelings, I have to contend with having to figure it out on my own. It's a dog eat dog world. Nothing is what it seems. At last I understand what these phrases mean!

As I quoted to someone recently, "it was the best of times and the worst of times". An oft repeated quote by a senior guy at work, I find it to be quite apt to describe my current state of life. I can safely say that I am leading a very exciting life currently. Hundreds of new things happening every day, tons of learning to be done, decisions to be taken, impressions to be made.. it seems that 24 hours are just not enough! Sometimes better gets better; sometimes worse gets worse. The peaks are as stark as the troughs in this sine wave. Neverthless, I know that twenty-odd years later I will look back at these times and say "Those were the days."