“I am not happy with what I am doing nowadays…”
“This was definitely not what I thought I would be doing two years later when I started my MBA…”
“For the entire rigor, hard work and slogging I went through during my two years in MBA, is this what I get?”
“I just can’t find the right girl to marry. How are we going to decide, in one meeting, if we will be able to live our entire lives together? This is stupid. Impossible!”
“We are growing too old… I feel old already…”
“I can’t imagine doing the same thing for the next five years or more or for that matter, less”
Conversations nowadays are incomplete without these sentences thrown in at regular intervals not unlike a person suffering from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder for cleanliness; her day is incomplete without washing her hands (or whichever part of her body) every now and then.
Days begin with a sigh – an exasperated sigh for having to go through another day of this boring routine. And, no it doesn’t stop with that one sigh.
The sighs continue…
When I put on my trouser and, with great difficulty, manage to fasten the last button of the trouser
When the security guard at the office entrance doesn’t let you in without checking your “eye-dee”
When the second security guard doesn’t let you in without checking your “eye-dee” and your bag
When the third security guard doesn’t let you in without checking your bag (yes, again!)
When you turn up late to office and people around you give you that ‘you-are-always-late’ look
When you turn on the computer and find your mailbox filled with spam mails from all the unnecessary groups in the company doing thankless work
When you go for coffee to the cafeteria and find half of the company folks there in queue for their ‘cup of tea’
When you go for lunch and find the same menu written in the same illegible handwriting with a host of spelling mistakes (not the same, spellings change every day)
When you sit staring at your Google homepage thinking hard what to type and nothing comes to your mind
So, you get the flow right?
And, the sighs continue…
With all the negative thoughts and depressing news around me, I decided to become an optimist and think about some positive things that surround me presently which get overlooked and ignored because of the negativity around. So, instead of thinking of all the things that make me sigh, I decided to list things that I enjoy – small things that make me happy. So, here I go:
Those quick jigs in the office lift to the song playing in my iPod (Only when I am alone in the lift, of course!)
Those hours of chatting, cribbing, gossiping over one cup of Assam tea
Those aimless errands in the office campus only to be shooed away by the security guys
Those over the top plans for the weekend, most of which do not work out!
Those roadside mirchi bajjis sold right across the street
Those bike rides back home without the slightest care for other people on the road
But I am able to think of only these many things as of now.
And, the sighs continue…
