Happy Days

Scratching my brain after a hiatus...

Happy Days - 2 words that taught me to smile, even in hardships, a year and half ago when life was looking in all the directions to steer my career to the destiny, shortly I could say during 'job search'. Life was all about resumes, mock-interviews, vendors and mainly JAVA but never the clients. We were 8 guys living in a 2 BHK pushing others into frustration and desperation by narrating one's encounter with a vendor or either a client. All of us had our own time tables and there weren't many occasions when we were all together at home. A break seemed crucial and helpful. Undecided, we all started having dinner together one day and that's when things started changing for all of us. At the dinner, each one of us started sharing their past stories or 'happy days' of life, and my list had the Freshers party, B'lore trip and birthday parties (esp. Truth N' Dare game) of my B.Tech life. The next thing we realized it was 3am. It was the longest dinner I ever had but a memorable one. We haven't had enough sleep but ready to start attending the phone calls. For the next couple of days, everyone seemed so relaxed and easy that we didn't have anything to complain. This was contagious and soon everyone had similar attitude. As a result, everyone got offer letters and soon got placed. Due to the delayed start date, I was the last one to leave the apartment even though I got the job before most of the other guys had. Then I moved to Madison from Chicago and started my job here. Life has become so routine that we didn't have anything to think of. After few months, two of my friends thought of visiting the same old apartment where we started building our lives but it wasn't the same. New time, new people, new styles. They had their own way of living which was lot different that our's. Yet, in the same direction to hunt down their destinations.

Now, I try to judge whether the happy days are important or the days to remember those happy days are. I also try not to be biased so I think deeply and conclude that - no matter how many happy days you have, if you don't have days to remember them then those precious moments are not a penny worth and also, if you have days to remember them but have no such precious happy days then it would be the same.

Things I learnt to keep my day a 'happy day' :
1. When things are not going your way, a break may seem to work. That break may be in any form - a discussion, a trip, a friend, etc.
2. Whenever you feel down, talk and always think of those sweet moments which made you happy.
3. Life keeps changing and so do you. But past remains the same. So, make present worth to remember when it becomes past.
4. As with time - Things, places and people won't stay the same.

Friday

These 6 letters make me smile at any moment. Life starts relaxing at 5 in the evening and gets deep into it. Once back home after work, it feels like I have nothing to do with this world anymore. I start watching funny videos and laugh to myself. I go to play tennis after my work with my roomie. Today my serves were better than the last time and the aces were unpredictable. Back home. Then comes the phone calls and I could figure out the guy is feeling the same and wants to tell everyone that it's FRIDAY and it's his world now. I again smile to myself and think 'I feel the same'. The pubs and restaurants go crazy with bunches and bunches of guys like me. Everyone seems to enjoy as if there's no next Monday but they know its just hiding behind the Sunday. Cooking time - what today? After thinking for few minutes I finally come to a conclusion - It's friday MAN, just go out. Time to go to sleep and then comes the penultimate day - Saturday. By the time I wake up, its already mid-day. Do the laundry, iron my clothes and then the clock strucks 6. I realize how did the day go so fast and see Sunday coming. Sunday - day to prepare for Monday. Life gets eclipsed by this fast going brutal world again and finally Monday arrives. Boss, work, deadline, class, variable, bug, debug, testing, server - Oh no stop it. I can't take it anymore. And, I feel like I'm going nuts. I cry, I hate, I throw, I catch, I throws, I exception - oh no not Java again. Lifez boring.

Then, Abhishek whispers into my ears - today is Friday, your day dude. ENJOY! I smile back to me again and now it's my world. I'm the master of this world.

First

Hello,

This is my first blog on my own blog. I just created it and now posting something that would stick there forever as my first blog. I don't know what to start and where to start so started thinking about it. B4U channel is playing a song from Mission Kashmir in my other window. I still kept thinking about what to write and then the next song started playing and I started thinking about the song. Suddenly, I realized that I should be thinking of something else and not about the song. As I wasn't feeling well my roomie wanted to cook for me. I could see the cauliflower flourets pack on the island, so it's cauliflower curry tonight. I still lying on my couch thinking what to write...one song after another started playing but I couldn't get a single topic to write about. While at work I thought that I would go home and eat and rest but I don't want to rest now. Instead, would like to tell someone what's going on here. Suddenly, things in my mind started to drive into past, back to my schools days, when I used to come home and find a menu to choose from what to eat and even now things haven't changed much except I need to choose from the menu what to cook.

Finally, felt that life is too short to live but very long to describe and write. So, I don't have time to describe anything as of now.

Stay tuned for my new thoughts...