Turning 25

In another 9 days, I will turn 25. At first I thought its just another number, not that significant. But then when I think about the difference this year has brought to my life, it is indeed significant.

Am now a working professional, out of the fun college life. Living independently in an alien city. I myself feel a difference in the way I was last year. Though I had started thinking about my career last year but those were just random thoughts. Now am seriously trying to following the path I chose.

The way people around look at me now also have changed. Unexpected questions are being put forward to me. From my parents asking me about my love life ( http://unknownrahul.blogspot.com/2011/04/marriage-talks.html ) to random people asking me my preference for a girl ( http://unknownrahul.blogspot.com/2011/10/crazy-mad-world.html ). These are enough to make me feel that Rauuullll life has changed.

Another thing that is happening these days is getting loads of invitation cards of marriage. Marriage of my school friends, Btech friends and also MBA friends. It makes me ask myself, What is happening, why is everyone getting married, that too so early. Am I being too behind in the career path to think that I need to work atleast couple of years more to even think of being settled? Whatever, I guess am entering last 2-3 years of my bachelor life. Its time to work hard and party harder. J

Luckily, one of my school friends is getting married on my birthday that means I will not be alone, will be having good time with friends in Kolkata.

One of the lines Barnie said, don’t remember which episode, is ringing in my head right now “While everyone around me is getting married or pregnant, am just getting too awesome”. :D

Happy birthday in advance Rauuullll :D

The Battle City

Its been now 5 months for me in Chennai. I find it strange to say but its true, these 5 months have not been the worst period of my life by any means. But yeah, its been tough.

It has been a strange phase so far. I have worked on all the public holidays so far. The reason being simple, I have nothing else to do in Chennai. Therefore, taking a holiday and sitting at home is worse than going to office. I save all my leaves and utilize them either to go to delhi or some holiday. So the next trip is for Kolkata this month end.

I never imagined myself going to a restaurant to dine alone. Sadly I do that quite often here to please myself. The same I did yesterday, Friday evening 8 pm I was in office. A normal life if I would have been in delhi and got late from office, directly gone home, mom would have said “Beta, you got late and look tired, I will get you some food, you relax.” But here in Chennai, I said to myself “Hey Rauuulllll, its been a long and tiring week, come I will take you to a good restaurant, have a good dinner”. Sounds sad, yeah it is.

Somehow, I have ended up knowing very few people in office and outside. It’s a small group of people around me with whom I interact on a daily basis. Thankfully, the group is really nice but at same time I miss the life in Delhi where I had a circle to hangout with.

The only respite is Saturday when I get to hear from most of you via phone or gtalk or FB. However, am sure it would have been so much fun if we could meet every weekend. J

The Circle of Life

I remember I cried a lot when I failed to clear the DCE entrance test. I always knew I was never an IIT material, was too bad in Science subjects but somehow was optimistic to do well in DCE. That can be put as my first setback in life. I felt as if everything ended ..blah blah blah.. Now I realize that was very small thing.

What makes me think now that it was a very small thing is experience. I have seen worse times than that, have seen others experiencing a tougher and worse life than me. This has made me look at things in a wider horizon and made me understand that whatever the situation is, it will pass.

There is no substitute for experience. As humans, we are bound to make mistakes. The important thing is to learn from them. Life is unpredictable, things turn all of sudden. The important thing is to remember how we dealt with the twist in past and how can we deal with it in a better way this time.

It is truly remarkable what experience teaches you. Today I see myself almost at the same situation as I was around three years back. And I wonder how much in a better way I could have dealt the situation then as am doing now. I made the situation worse for myself then, kept on thinking why things went wrong for me. However now I thank god that I had faced a similar situation in the past and now I am dealing with it in the best possible way by not allowing it to affect my life.

I guess the famous line “ jo hota hai achhe ke liye hota hai “ is aptly fitting in this context.