An ‘idea’ that keeps changing my life...

I was quietly enjoying my weekly off (no, not Saturday and Sunday; the ‘fortunate’ days are called Thursday and Friday). My phone rang, breaking the silence, literally! A friend-cum-colleague was on the other end. No, it wasn’t a last-minute-scheduled meeting she called for. Neither for discussing the work I left pending before I left office last. And absolutely not for asking about my health! Poor me; it would have been better if any of these reasons had been the cause of that call. True, before I could gather what she conveyed to me, I was travelling in a jam-packed bus already, in my imagination.

Gurgaon is definitely not a bad place. I don’t hate it. I don’t dislike it. I’m afraid of it. Yes, I’m afraid of Gurgaon when it comes to travelling there… that too, everyday (except for Thursdays and Fridays, of course!). Those roads, traffic jams, crowd… everything scares me to death. And running through this exercise everyday is like inviting the tension-bugs to take a toll on my body already.

Why can’t I be let the way I am? Why can’t certain things come to a halt recurring with me every six months? Why can’t I see what’s coming? Why can’t I work in Delhi, without shifting to an NCR area (of all the places) sooner or later after my joining in Delhi? I am very sad today for all these reasons, for all these queries answers to which simply don’t seem to touch my head!

Could be a co-incidence, one part of my senses suggest. While I bend more towards the hint offered by the other part – just a matter of bad luck, bad timing and a bad idea suggested by someone that changed my life once again (hitting my poor weekly off days first).

No grudges against anyone. Except those who enjoy my predicament instead of putting an ointment on the tight spots (don’t read consoling). And those who say it’s okay, things will change soon. And those who are reading this and yet not prepared to leave their comments saying they agree. Probably, I’m too demanding at times. Probably, writing this wasn’t needed at all. Probably, I will end up settling in an NCR area. And probably, I will dread working in Delhi then…