Goodbye emails

Long time since I’ve written something here. Well, sometimes you don’t find things worth writing about, and sometimes there it is, and just don’t get to do it.

Last week yet another of my very good friends at Aftek resigned. Her name is Kanika. Couple of years back Paayal, Ashwini, Dipti, Kanika and me had a rocking time together. From eating tiffin on the terrace together to nature walks in the middle of the city, to one day trips! We did it all. Kanika used to get mangoes and superb upma so many times and we would be fighting to get a good share of it!

Then Ashwini got married and moved to the US, Dipti left, Paayal got happily married last year and now Kanika joined another company. All of us have newer things happening in our lives.

I am left wondering how many new friends we keep making and how many old ones we leave behind. When we join a new company we hardly know anyone there, but end up talking to some people and get to know their nature, like it or get used to it. At the same time even people begin to know you, some like you and some leave you alone. But point is, we make new friends and start looking forward to spending more time with them. How many times do we have to let them go - just on a note that we may them again sometime? May? All the goodbye emails...

And what I wonder most is how easily we come to work the next day and even if see that their cubicle is empty, we just go on ahead with our work as usual. Don’t we miss them? Well we do actually but I guess that’s how life is. In today’s corporate run, it is necessary to move on.

I still do miss Paayal. The kind of shopping we did on FC road, pastries and patties we ate in Pastry Corner, roaming around on Karve road and gossiping and cribbing about lot of people everywhere :) We shared driving my bike to the office and going back.

Ashwini is yet another innocent person whom I will always miss. She was simple hearted and a good natured person who always wanted the best for her friends.

My mom-dad’s generation worked for a single company all their lives and made life-long friendships - friendships that lasted through good and bad times! I wish we could have enjoyed that.

But hey, my old friends from school, Kanchan, Nivedita and Seema, are surprisingly closer to me than most of the new ones. Wonder why? Maybe like Kanchan said, ‘cause we had spent most of our day with them together and that we were innocent. I think maybe it is ‘cause we weren’t desperate to their friend and were so because we liked them and not to form strategic friendships!

I think I am going to be in touch with most of the people I’ve liked over time. Gearing up!

I don't feel like working today

Don't know why... and hey I don't blame my work at all. I work for Aftek, a great company with a superb environment that makes me wanna come to office everyday.

But somehow, once in a blue moon, I don't want to just get out of my house at all. Today was such a day. Today all of a sudden I am feeling very home sick (even though I was there just 6 hours back). Even now at work, I am thinking of the comfort of my home.

Why have humans complicated their lives so much? Why do we force ourselves to go some place out of home for a better part of the day? Why do we have to earn for our loved ones, but get to spend so little time with them.

Sometimes I think of the old rushi-munis (hermits) who stayed in the Himalayas, ate fruits, and had no materialistic ambitions. They were so content with whatever they had. Why can't all humans be like that? I know I can't. Maybe it is 'cause we are not brought up that way.

In prehistoric days they didn't have to pay mobile bills, petrol bills :). All men did was to hunt for food and women just cooked; they also made sure that the species didn't go extinct. But mankind has made so many discoveries and inventions that a single person cannot do everything in a single lifetime. Hence we ended up trading and hence 'working somewhere'. Why did we have to do this to ourselves!!! We should have happily stayed in the himalayas or hunted for food forever! Why create wheels? Why invent electricity? Why form software companies :D ???

Ok... getting back to work now.