Back in 2011 just post completing
my b.tech after a long stultifying 4 years, there were at least 6 months for
which I’d have nothing else to do but to wait for my joining. It was the classic
case of post recession trainee deployment or which new engineering recruits
have to face the brunt even till today. So I knew I had a pure white canvas in
hindsight and I wanted to paint the best possible escarpment to relish later on
when I was to get indulged in the hackneyed life that was to follow. It was a
surreal feeling for I knew there were no ramifications of what I was about to
foray into, and I could have lived those 6 months on endeavors of a lifetime.
And not surprisingly, that’s precisely what I did.
I was always considered a rather
fastidious observant and there were a little too many things I could have
written entire litanies on. So I tried to see how I could best share my
ramblings with the world and that very pursuit brought me into the fabulous
world of blogging. While this blog has by far been my most successful sustained
blogging effort, the decision to take my writing online has and continues to provide
me with a surfeit of opportunities and platforms.
Another thing that I literally
implored myself into was to leave the sedentary lifestyle I had so come to
crave. It’s okay that engineers and specially computer engineers are infatuated
by PC gaming but I was a freak. So maybe for the first time I had enough blank
space in front of me to get into real action as opposed to firing laser sabers
in various gory games. And that was moment when I thought it was prudent to get
my 1997 MTB bike out of its misery and get it back on its wheels.
While I started with 15-20 minute
journeys initially, I soon became a pro who would have these entire hour
cycling sprees where I would just cycle and have the whole world as my
entourage. I never realized that this decision too was soon going to develop
into a lifelong obsession for bringing out the energy and vigor and now, I’m in
that state where I just have to spend a good 3-4 hours every week on some form
of exercise. It’s quite amazing that someone who found the very prospect of
exercising garroting, now has incorporated that in his regime more for fun
than for the incentive of staying in shape.
Yet another change I ensconced in
myself was to do away with apprehensions and to start talking and expressing
myself. I realized that I was in that phase of my life where the more the
number of acquaintances I were to make, the larger my cortege and caravan were
going to be, and the more I was to truly savor life. So I went out of my way to
initiate as many conversations as I could and my erstwhile debilitating reservations
gave way to a more affable visage. And boy am I grateful to have decided to do
that.
As I look back, that 6 month transition
was all I needed to transpire into a more evolved being than I was before. With
so many years of education constricting me in books and academia, I needed some
breathing space before stepping into the professional realm. And when I got
that, I truly began to relish and rejoice those rapturous elements of life I
never dared to try in the past. Those 6 months changed me and only for the good
of it. The munificence of those 6 months was all that I needed perhaps.
Housing and their brilliant new ad below, inspired me to reflect on some of the changes that define my life and I was impelled to share this with you. So what you're waiting for. #StartANewLife.
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