Hey Friends,
Today sitting on my chair at 2:30am in the night in Chennai, I am just wondering what I gained and what I lost in the past 2 years. Don't get too excited as I am not going to tell you guys everything about my private life here :P; but yeah I want to share some of the things which I have inculcated and seen in my day to day life.
First things first, I don't deny the fact that the college life was special in all the ways as it had all the flavors of life around me. In particular the flavors of excitement,dreams,carelessness and etc etc etc.. Though some of these flavors still bound to stay with me, some have found their replacements. The best thing I have taken from my college life are the invaluable friends who hold the special nerve in my heart.Enough of the college stuff lets move on now :)..
'Chennai', heart of the 'South India' indeed does have a big heart in it. This is one city which apart from the diversity has learnt to stay peacefully. Now many people would be thinking or arguing the fact that being a so called 'North Indian' why or rather how am I boasting about 'Chennai'. Well there are facts to prove my praiseworthy thoughts about this lovely city, but there is something beyond facts which I have personally felt too. It has a good security system, tight administration, good educational institutes, high literacy rate, good roads and transportation, huge industries (Automobile industry, IT industry) and has an affinity towards peaceful leaving amongst people which is second to none and scores the maximum point. Yeah language can be a problem at times but then at any place in the world you need to know the basic words in the local language. (both good and bad ones :P..)
Okay enough of Chennai as a city, lets move on to my life in Chennai :)..I joined IBM 2 years back and had big dreams in my mind. I was free from college and had entered a new world altogether with so many questions inculcated from the office culture they show in Bollywood movies :P.. After 1 month of the coooooooooool training period (any IT guy's best time in IT :P), I was mapped to a project and then started the transformation from 'a boy to a man'. I used to get lot of pressure from work and I also thought that this is my time to work as I have to grow faster than others. Life is a race stuff n all..I tried my best to keep a balance between my personal and professional life too..Though I think I gave my best but at times that never proved to be enough. For a year I worked like a slave, the only difference being a slave has no goals or expectation and in contrary to that I had huge expectations,goals and enough salary to sponsor myself for movies,restaurants etc etc. :)..
After a year like this the boy inside me had almost transformed to a man. (the boyish side is still there deep inside me though :)..) I started enjoying responsibility, I started managing my time, started talking freely and after another year of professional life I have learnt a few important aspects of professional life. Free and Innovative thinking, Goal setting, Communication and Network are some of the keys to grow.
Now there has come a time when I know what I could have done better in the past 2 years both professionally and personally. But instead of thinking 'Life could have been like that etc etc etc.' I infuse myself with a positive energy and take the decision to grow. A free mind and body is the key to growth. I have learnt that the small world around me and the small things which I do in life all matters, and at the end of the day it all accumulates to give a big picture of what I am doing. Talking of relationships, yes definitely I enjoy a healthy relationship with the special people in my life to name a few my Guru,lord,family,relatives and friends; and I would encourage everyone to always value relationships as they are the wheels of the transport we travel in (wherever we go the wheels come with us and without the wheels we cannot go anywhere)..
Referring to the point I said at the beginning that I was listing what I gained and what I lost; I would rather say its a part which is out of my control. If 2 years ago I would have said that I don't want to work in Chennai, there would not have been this opportunity to learn the things which I did. 'Ups and Downs' have rocked my world but the only thing which is there in my hand is to give my best shot every time. The best I give, the more I grow; the more I grow, the more I am satisfied; the more I am satisfied, the more I get closer to 'The Pursuit of Happyness'. So better stay happy and make people happy. (which comes in small packages)
I would conclude by saying 'Life is indeed Beautiful'.
