“The city of lakes!”
“The city
of opportunities”
“The city
where I will start my career”
These and
some more like these, the first sentences came out of my mouth when my feet
landed on the soil of this city. ‘Bengaluru’.
At first it
encourages you, motivates you to do courageous stupid things and then it just
waits until you make yourself comfortable in the atmosphere.
Around 700
Kms from home, accessing the freedom you have not experienced before, and the
decisions which you have to take for yourselves, it all seems so fascinating.
But once
you settle down in the corporate world, it starts to eat you. First, it eats
your personal space, then it starts to run through your blood. And if you are
so unlucky that, you are in Bengaluru when the pandemic started? Then please be
careful it will soon enter your mind.
Away from
home, when you miss the food, the air, the water, and even the atmosphere where
you can claim that the town/city/village belongs to you, and they reject your
leave application.
Reason
being the work is pending and there is no one but you who can complete the
work.
You get
sad, you get angry and you throw every other negative thing you can find onto
yourself and miserably seat in the corner of your room staring at the laptop
until it sleeps out.
You want to
throw your tantrums at someone, hug someone? You want to curse your manager,
boss, or supervisor but what you really do it, you light up your laptop again
and unlock it with your credentials and start working.
Are you
mad? You just now said cruel things about the same work which you are doing
now!
Was that
just a way of expression? Shallow hatred?
Well! Not
entirely shallow.
When you
were cursing, you were probably not thinking about the salary which will be
credited to you the very next day! You might not have thought about the number
of expenses this job pays for!
But again,
you fold up all those thoughts because you need to complete your daily tasks
because anyway, today is not the day you want to stretch till midnight!
It all gets
past, you inform your family for not able to attend some very important
occasion at home and sadly, miserably you keep doing your work!
In your
mind, it’s not ended yet. You keep thinking about how many good/bad, happy/sad
occasions you have missed because you work around a thousand km from your home.
You curse your job location and the work once again! But keep doing your work!
People
might think that you are a kind of irresponsible child, who hardly visits home,
but they don’t know the kind of things you have to face here!
Deep down
everyone knows that work from home might not be solving problems for us
eventually!
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