After staring at the blank page for about 15
minutes, I finally did start scribbling or rather typing down this. I could
even remember when was the last time I blogged until I saw the date of my last
post. Time does fly.
Well writing during college was really easy and
spontaneous. Not that I have lost the edge or that life has become mundane. But
then there certainly has been a tectonic shift in the direction my life was
headed. Though I must confess, it ain’t even close to a lame excuse for me
being so lazy when it came to updating my blog. In the quest to find a reasonable
justification for my laziness, I got hyperactive trying to analyze the content
of my blog. And I realized it was hugely skewed towards romanticism and
iconoclastic ideas and college life often acted as a fuel to fire up many more
such thoughts. And not to forget the plethora of time I had at my disposal.
I often used a particular quotation “Life is
what happens to you while you were busy making other plans.” Sometimes, I feel
I am a literally living this line. Or, may be everyone feels so. Once upon a
time, choosing between finance and marketing used to be the ultimate question
other than of course which restraint to visit in the weekend. As life surged
ahead, the complexity increased and n it became about company versus work
profile versus salary. In due course, the inquisitive mind led to questioning of
the lifestyle, dreams and aspirations fading in the heat of the reality. And
then suddenly the bigger calling from family changed it all. And in a matter of
days life took a u turn from Mumbai – Delhi route to home sweet home. Somehow I
feel my family always knew that in order to anchor me down to the family
business, they need to like really anchor me. And what better way than to make
me meet someone so special that there is an instant connect and the romantic
idea of a soul mate turns into a beautiful reality. And of what I expected to
be a rough, dangerous and emotionally tumultuous journey, somehow turned into
the most amazing lively and beautiful phase of my life. And somehow, I can’t
really give the credits to me becoming a trader in steel & cement where
none of what I read and understood in college really matters. It infact, made
me actually act on an amazing line again overused by me in almost all my
interviews. “Sir, I believe that my ability to learn, unlearn and relearn makes
me eligible to be a part of your esteemed college/company.” Don’t know about
them but I certainly had to perform all the 3 seeming easy task to be able to
survive in this cut throat market.
Anyways, the point of all this was as usual me
in a introspecting mode, about all these past months and my new resolve to get
back to blogging.
