“Change is the only thing constant in life” is what I wrote
in my last day email to my colleagues and how true it turned out to be. I must
say I’m getting a fairly heavy doze of change. To summarize it for you in one
line – I graduated from B-school, relocated to Washington DC, resigned from my
job, currently looking out for jobs in Healthcare IT which is a niche
industry but a space where I have a lot of experience in, moved to a new
apartment in DC, cooking on a daily basis as opposed to the almost non existent
cooking back in India. Phew!! Now that was a long sentence. People often ask me how I spend my days now and I’m sure
they must be thinking that I am bored to death considering the fact that I have
worked continuously for the past 7 years and not to mention the MBA that I was pursuing
along with a full time job. Quite surprisingly I am not.
It’s like a breath of fresh air to finally have some time
for myself and to not think about all the work pending at office or school. How
many times haven’t I thought to myself about how great it would be to read a
book or blog or watch a movie in peace without having to feel the guilt of
utilizing that time for doing something more resourceful. I’m getting to do all
of that and more. It is quite surprising
that I manage to keep myself busy all through the day doing things I love. This
break from the routine is like a boon in disguise that is helping me recover
from the super busy life I have lived in the past 3 years. It's like how it used to
be in school when you would get summer breaks before you start a brand new
year.
Sometimes I feel that the world around me is constant,
everything seems to be the same but my life has decided to take a turn and
hopefully for the better. For the past couple of years life had become like a
predictable soap opera in whose predictability I found comfort. Finally it’s
changing, it is becoming interesting. At first I did not like the
unpredictability, I loathed it but now it is just thrilling to figure out what
life has to offer and what is in store for me. It is enlightening to finally
find the time to introspect and learn something from all my mistakes, my little
victories and failures. As I embrace this change, I realize that we are the
only ones who finally get to judge how we lived our lives and at the end of the day it
is our perception that decides if we lived a happy fulfilling life or decided
to whine it away.
