Me

Friday, 10 pm......end of another day, another week,..day was hectic, but now that’s usual. I have a tough schedule next week, with lots of meeting, discussions, actions, plans and what not, but well that can wait,....that is project "Next Week" as I like to call it. I have a tougher problem at hand to focus on and that is project….... WEEKEND.

Like hundreds of other software engineers...belonging to the so very well known elite community of IT professionals, work, money, opportunism, and greed to succeed has landed me into an alien city Pune,..away from my family,..alone in a small crumpled apartment which I don’t like to call my home but a resting place where I am forced to spend two full days of the week, Saturdays and Sundays.....ALONE.

I have always been an active person,..studies, classes, lectures, tuitions, games, dance classes, homework, projects, assignments,….I have done them all,....honestly and sincerely,..bunking classes never really suited me somehow . Life was governed by the time tables of all these agenda items that I had prioritized for myself…....I rushed and rushed through each of them...justifying the adjective I accredited to myself at the start of this paragraph.....ACTIVE.

I can remember the plentiful number of occasions when I wanted to stop, pause, take a breath, chat with my mother, help her in the kitchen, discuss sciences with father, aid him fix the tube light, help my younger sister to complete her assignment, take her out for a movie and on and on……...the list goes on. I won’t say that I never allowed myself these pleasures..these little moments to be treasured, cherished and appreciated; it’s just that I made myself these allowances a little too less,..a little too infrequently, a little too sparingly. But well that is life...no complaints. Just a little .....REGRET.

A matter to observe is...when I had my dear ones close by, I could not find time for them.....and now when I have time, I cannot find the ones I wish to spend it with………….that so called irony of fate! However no cribbing...only learning something I dint know before……..APPRECIATION.

Pointer to self: Appreciate the things you have when you can,...they may not stay with you forever.

Armed with lesson number ONE, I resolve to appreciate the weekend project with a determination…….. to extract from it all the possible opportunities it might have to offer ……to steal the little possible happiness and humor it might have been hiding away…. to make may not be the most, but surely something of it :)