SPOTLIGHT

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Feeling light as a feather

Finally the moment to muster all the courage and pounce upon my boss came late friday afternoon. 4:45 p.m to be precise. I caught him by surprise but then the way he reacted I must admit made me respect him all the more. He was sorry that this position did not live up to my expectations satisfaction and he took it in stride. He said that one must pursue what gives happiness after all we the shapers of our own career. We spoke for almost 2 hours, and he shared his experiences down the road. It was heart warming.At the end of it, I was feeling so relieved.One thing I realized it is all in our mind, we create a completely different world with our notions and how people would apparently react to the situations. The real world however is completely different and unpredictable and its not as bad as we think it is.
Phew!! one task off my list of to do things, does make it a lot easier to concentrate on the other steps. I had placed an ad for an apartment on Sulekha, got a couple of responses. Will have to go check them out soon. Packing is currently underway. It is getting there..albeit, one step at a time.

This morning, wore the last pair of fresh clothes I had, which meant I *had to* do laundry today. I hate doing it cause it takes almost 2 hours of your precious time and then ironing clothes something which takes me forever to do and I still get the creases messed up.I really miss the dhobi in bombay, who would come home, take clothes and bring them ironed the next day.The only plus point of doing laundry is, the visual treat for your eyes in store. Have you ever run into a blonde while she is doing her laundry, she literally would have put all the clothes she has in the washer and would be running up and down the laundry room in the bare essentials.

8 Comments:

  • naughty u man... blondes and washing clothes... hehehe... do they remove their clothes and also put it in the machine??

    next time take ur camera along... ;-)

    By Blogger virdi, at 10:28 PM  

  • Good to hear that u talked to your boss abt it . I accept with the observation that the opinion that u form abt a person need not be correct all the time. The sames happened to me too. Expected real bad things from someone and got the opposite.

    The blonde joke was good... ;)

    By Blogger Arun R, at 11:10 PM  

  • So one of the biggest task off your list, huh?
    I have tried to learn ironing clothes countless number of times but i just can't get it right.
    Fortunately for me, i do have a dhobi.

    By Blogger Raj, at 11:15 PM  

  • Virdi!? Achcha, ideas de raho ho?? lol :-)

    Hey Parth, I am SO glad that you finally got that done with. And wow, even I feel so good about your Boss's reaction. That's great. I have never given a resignation before, and I am always filled with images of the other party receiving it quite bitterly. Pehraps being cordial, but certainly not warm and supportive in a genuine way. Perhaps, again, those are just personal fears, maybe springing from inexperience.

    And you are right-on about the real journey sometimes being way more smoother than we thought. And sometimes, there are even pleasant surprises in store. Totally unexpected :-)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:47 PM  

  • So are u all moved in now? Moving is a pain. I had told u na, managers here they go through people quitting all the time and they are very supportive about it. I even had one of my managers say, If u need any reference let me know.

    By Blogger Thanu, at 9:33 AM  

  • hey cool!

    Congrats! it all went by smoothly..most of the times, we make an image of a person in our minds, when that person is someone whom we are yet to know!

    As about blondes..Hmmm...I dont think I wanna see that:p

    BTW, I do my laundry on fridays when the blondes are busy clubbing;)

    By Blogger Rays Of Sun, at 10:01 AM  

  • @virdi:
    LOL..

    //next time take ur camera along... ;-)

    hell no...it will be like shooting soft porn

    @arun:
    // Expected real bad things from someone and got the opposite.

    See thats how unpredictable life gets...sometimes it works in your favor else it makes you struggle a lot


    @raj: yeah..simply despise ironing..

    @harshi:
    //Perhaps, again, those are just personal fears, maybe springing from inexperience

    till you do something personally..the fear..the strange feeling lingers around..

    //Totally unexpected :-)
    :)

    @vikram:
    but we have to be careful not to get caught staring at them..:P

    thats where the tirchi nazar comes into practice

    @rinku:
    Yeah it did luckily go well. I wanted this to end on a happy note.

    @sheela:
    hope things are going well with you. you doing good? keeping busy?

    @thanu:
    Will move on fri, packing is almost getting there.
    Ya..thanks for advising me and your supportive words...

    @ROS:
    //BTW, I do my laundry on fridays when the blondes are busy clubbing;)

    and I do it only on sundays when they are tensed about monday and are as confused as ever :P

    By Blogger Parth Anand, at 4:18 PM  

  • Good going about telling your boss in person. And its even better he didn't take it badly. I wish you good luck with your next job!!

    By Blogger Kroopa Shah (Kr00pz), at 11:04 AM  

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