Happenings.

Looks like I'm slowly making it a habit of writing a few posts a month. Well, if one has nothing good to write, why even bother to write eh. I see so much anger and bitterness in my friends and in my FB pages that sometimes you can't help but feel affected by them. I wonder why people are so angry everyday... all the time. Don't they ever get tired of being angry? Where has patience and compromise gone? Is everything about what one wants? Is nothing about what your friend wants?

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~ Author Unknown

Well, moving on to something new, I have started my journey as an intern in the art and photography wing of a company. Well, technically this isn't the first, but I deliberately omitted the BSNL fiasco which was during my engineering career. I did not know what to expect since I had no idea as of how it feels working; worse on an environment I am not familiar with. It felt like as if I was in my point in life where after brilliantly laying out my plan there would be a sudden unexpected bump that would deviate me out of my designed path.

When I was about to start my first internship, questions like what kind of challenges I would be facing and what kind of people I would be working with kept running into my mind. These were nothing, as compared to the questions that were fired at me, like, why this role? why mba, then? why are you here? what would do in your life? To be honest I wouldn't be able to answer these questions after 5 more years also. I go on pure instinct, the truth is and I will abide by it. But the fact that I am pretty much interested in creativity-alligned jobs, and have untill now some in depth knowledge in marketing practices; helped me steer the session.

No doubt, I liked the session where our sir heaped a lot of praise on me, saying he has exceeded my expectations. I know my kind of work also requires lot of concentration and time but I guess in today's world, too few people understand it. Phrases like "Haan main bhi karta na to aadhe ghante me ho jata", "Isme kaunsi badi baat hai!", etc. demoralise the passion budding underneath. But nothing of this happened there as Sir said, "I like to give him a free hand, as such people flourish when given adequate freedom."

And one more thing, after nearly a year's stay in New Delhi, I would still go to towns like Bhubaneswar and Sambalpur, for their homeliness and classic flavors. But one has to be robotic and follow the herd to survive, and I was all nerves before going to our first company meeting. But believe me, the executives are only stern outside, they are pretty much humane inside and always willing to cooperate. Only the five star meeting suite thing doesn't suit me, though. I am pretty much made of earth for that matter.
So, all said, I just hope that this internship goes healthy and serves the purpose.

P.S. I do not like the eating culture in a five star restaurant. It kills my appetite!