As luck would have it and thanks to a friend i got an opportunity to catch the IPL final in mumbai!! 3 of us left home in a call cab and reached the venue well in time. I had been in 2 minds weather to go or not as i was to watch the match alone with other two sitting at different stand.
Offlate, whenever im in doubt for a yes or no, i have started myself to push for a yes and not think too much bout the consequences.
so i reached my stand, grabbed a sandwitch and took the first row at level 1 which was like a balcony of the old cinema halls. initially i felt bored as i was alone and was gathered by thoughts of leaving the ground soon. but then i be-friended my neighbours who were very enthu supporting mumbai. slowly, i too picked up the fun and soon enough was with the crowd. maxican waves soon started going around and it was awsome fun from dere on till the end of the game. i din had to deal with win/loss as i wasnt supporting any particular team.
in the end, it was great entertainment packed with action from bollywood stars and cricketers and the super enthu mumbai crowd. i felt so refreshed by the entire experience that i vowed to come back whenever opportunity comes to catch a T20 :)
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Change...
I dont think my life ever witnessed a U turn of such degree as it has in the last 1.5 months when i left BoB. I started with a entirely new life with my mind thinking altogether differently. It changed my lifestyle, my thoughts, my actions, my surroundings including people around me, my ambitions, my fears etc.
I changed my job and I was in a culture, diametrically opposite to where i had worked at BoB. I couldnt help but wonder how could dere exist two organizations so closely yet so opposite of each other. surely it toook some time to adjust to the new world and i agree i over-reacted at times to the new life and resisted it.i think the experience of two such opposite organizations has helped me know in much clearer sense of what i want to do with my life and m still learning.
As did change were the people around me. From smiling and relaxed faces i am getting used to angry, aggresive, excited, worried expressions on people m surrounded with now. I miss the old faces and friends, some of them badly. but again these two starkly differently personalities have given me a sense of among whom i would want to be, what would suit me.
Thus I entered a new world in every sense. Nothing i touched was old. the sense of time changed and so did my reaction to it. 1:30 pm, which automatically sounded bells for lunch at BoB lost that mark. so did catching sun go down at 6-6:30 in the evening.
The only thing that remained same was the City. Same places where i used to go with my buddies, same mumbai local which i used to comute up to 50 kms in a day very often, same AS 2/3/4/440 which i used extensively just before the D day. the city remained the same but i wonder how would it have been has it also changed!! nevertheless, i must admit that somewhere, sometimes i did feel that the city no longer seems wat it used to be. i realized a place is lesser about the location and more about the people. even the best of the world would not b good enough without yr best friend.
the best thing that came out of the entire experience is i have stopped looking at change as good or bad. its never an absolute. there is always a sacrifice involved. u have to make a choice. and nothing is black or white. everything seems an experience that gave me more understanding of myself and thus made me more confident to take my own decisions. and m still learning..because change is constant...
I changed my job and I was in a culture, diametrically opposite to where i had worked at BoB. I couldnt help but wonder how could dere exist two organizations so closely yet so opposite of each other. surely it toook some time to adjust to the new world and i agree i over-reacted at times to the new life and resisted it.i think the experience of two such opposite organizations has helped me know in much clearer sense of what i want to do with my life and m still learning.
As did change were the people around me. From smiling and relaxed faces i am getting used to angry, aggresive, excited, worried expressions on people m surrounded with now. I miss the old faces and friends, some of them badly. but again these two starkly differently personalities have given me a sense of among whom i would want to be, what would suit me.
Thus I entered a new world in every sense. Nothing i touched was old. the sense of time changed and so did my reaction to it. 1:30 pm, which automatically sounded bells for lunch at BoB lost that mark. so did catching sun go down at 6-6:30 in the evening.
The only thing that remained same was the City. Same places where i used to go with my buddies, same mumbai local which i used to comute up to 50 kms in a day very often, same AS 2/3/4/440 which i used extensively just before the D day. the city remained the same but i wonder how would it have been has it also changed!! nevertheless, i must admit that somewhere, sometimes i did feel that the city no longer seems wat it used to be. i realized a place is lesser about the location and more about the people. even the best of the world would not b good enough without yr best friend.
the best thing that came out of the entire experience is i have stopped looking at change as good or bad. its never an absolute. there is always a sacrifice involved. u have to make a choice. and nothing is black or white. everything seems an experience that gave me more understanding of myself and thus made me more confident to take my own decisions. and m still learning..because change is constant...
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