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...