its me!!

My room mate drops me at Kherwadi Bus stop (Bandra) daily. I take a bus from there to my office in Worli. This whole process takes around an hour or so: 20-25 minutes to reach Kherwadi, another 15-20 minutes for the bus to arrive, again a 15-20 minutes foe the bus to reach Worli and finally 10-15 minutes for me to walk from the stop to my office. All in all, I take around 65-75 minutes to arrive at the office. It took me 45 minutes today. I got up early, walked to the bus stop near my office, waited 10 minutes and took a bus to office. From Andheri to Worli, it took flat 20 minutes. The traffic was thin and there was no hurdle in between. And we reached the sea-link. I cross that bridge daily. The only difference was that today I was not pre-occupied by thought of reaching office on time. In fact, I was before time. That my mind was at peace, I looked with awe the buildings across the sea water. I never saw that before. I found it picturesque. Often in movies there are scenes in which ...

This post is the outcome of certain analogies that I developed while I was lying in my bed after going through numerous slides on how to save the world! Just a few days back, I was quite charged up: I got the placement after lot of struggle, people (genuine people) appreciated my efforts, I was quite energetic and ready to go! I tried a few things, but after that the pressure of subjects started. Quizzes, project reports, presentations, assignments and finally end-term exams. While I was lying there, I felt like that scientist, who just discovered a new element, but when he reached his home, his wife asked, "Tarkari laye?" which of course he forgot! This is a bad feeling. As we end our college, and become part of the new workforce, the chores of the daily life should not be such as to extract the creative juices and enthusiasm out of the soul. Here I am waiting for few hours and few days to pass so that I can go home and have some fun, those useless exams awaits me in between...