The status bar on the 17" screen of my Dell Inspiron tells the time as 12.43 am Friday. I came back to my apartment about 30 minutes back after having a "hearty" chat with my friend. He does not know that Iam summarizing our discussions in this blog, so I will not introduce him; however he has been my ex colleague and now he is working with me again.
After a long day at work, we started discussing about Indian music and culture and food (while trying chips and mexican salsa) at his apartment before conveniently digressing the topic to our career goals (me, a technical manager and he a techno commercial sales guy in next 5 years) and work. How we have come up where we are, how we need to evolve more to fit into the ever changings scheme of things, how the company should evolve, about old-school typecast colleagues, about confused colleagues, about jobs in us in the next decade, how small work place differences could snowball into issues, how quality of work life changes across companies (both of us are ex-ibmers) are few of the eclectic subject we debated. And then came the topic that we were hiding, love in our life.
How love hurts, how women are more mature in handling love than men like us, how life in USA changed everything for us, how we (both of us are from Kolkata) have never been taught to deal with the kind of isolated existence that we have in a foreign land ....during our discussion these issues remained no longer just topics but passionate subjects to ponder on; an unbiased perspective on on crushes, infatuations, relationships followed soon. We compared the pain of removal of band-aid from a wound with that of a break off; its less painfull to pull it of fast than to procastrinate. How time is a double edged sword for all relationships; more time to know each other brings two people near only to know more shortcomings and have a painfull breakoff. How we conveniently use blinkers to hide our wounds. How we still long for our first love. And life moves on.
I wish everyone who is reading this takes some time of to have a heart-to-heart chit chat with someone in order to unwind the tensions build within; quest for perfect life is bumpy at best so its good to have a hindsight view of things. Living alone in US then may become a little more easy than it has been. May be girls are so strong emotionally because they talk so much!!!!Nice joke!!!
