Change is the only thing constant in life

“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.