Celebrate the Day!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY !!! LOL !!

It’s been exactly a year since I attended my first job interview and subsequently a year since I was offered a job at Wipro and thus HAPPY ANNIVERSARY !!

Wow!! Already a year!! And in a matter of months I’m going to actually start working. Actually!! Can’t imagine that now. Well, didn’t imagine that I would be offered a job while I was still in my 6^th semester (with another year of undergraduate still to finish) either, but that did happen didn’t it?? However dream like and improbable it seemed at that moment, it happened. That feeling of jubilation that I experienced as the new sunk…Damn!! That evening of 9^th April, 2007 when my name was announced it didn’t feel any different. It really, honestly didn’t feel great. Just that sense of having done something good. Then a few days later the truth of it dawned upon me. I was still studying and I had a job in my hand. But only a few months back when I received the offer letter did I realize how marvelous it truly was. The knowledge of the joy it had given everyone in my family – my parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins. It really struck me close when last year my mum asked my dad what he was getting her for her birthday, which falls on April 14^th, and my dad replied, “Your daughter’s given you this, what more can a mother want?” It wasn’t the job. It was the accomplishment he was talking about. The silent endurance to do it my way without caring for what others had said (inclusive of the ‘advice’ not to do B.E. – this from most of our close relations). Yeah, I was proud. Still am. Of course there is much more to do, but that was the stepping stone and to have done it in the first trial was more than just simply satisfying.

And it’s been a brilliant year since then Such happy things happening all through it, I really believe it has been 12 months I will never forget!! Possibly the most tiresome, action filled 12 months I’ve so far ever faced!! And I miss it already!!

Ah….Reminiscing about what has come to pass has become, now, a pastime for me. I sit in some corner of my room, preferably by the window above my bed, and just wonder. Sometimes with my journal out on my lap and my pen scribbling matters of the heart and mind so fast I can barely comprehend what I’m writing, but it always makes sense in the end. And as always, in moments of joy or sadness, a song comes to mind. This one I’ve been obsessed since the 2006 FIFA World Cup. ‘Celebrate the Day’ by Herbert Gronemeyer. Just listen to the chorus…doesn’t it elevate you from the inside??