Capgemini Seasons
Its been two and a half months since I have been conscripted into the Indian software Industry. Two and a half months of mixed feelings. Two and a half months of studying. Two and a half months of college life. Two and a half event filled months.
Work has been fun to say the least. Really good fun. Have made lots of new friends out there, and rediscovered a couple of old ones. But then again, friendships, in my case at least, have been ephemeral. They have always been that beautiful woman in the crowd, who gives you a smile for no reason at all (She could have been laughing at me, but I am an optimist), and then disappears into the darkness of time, never to be beheld again. Autumn of the group gathered has come, and just two of us remain. The leaves have been falling, and even the resolute ones shall part tomorrow. That leaves me, still coming to terms with my branches, wondering about the onset of spring. Winter, I remember, is not yet upon me.
But, putting aside the sorrows of autumn, I look at the sunset; autumn sunsets are indeed the most beautiful, with the sun beaming in a resplendent glow, converting the sky into an artists canvas. I recollect that paycheque, that first paycheque. Always beautiful, just like a baby. They are synonymous to an extent, the first paycheque, and a baby, the former is your first latter. That first cheque makes you realize the rocket science that is money management. It makes you quiver at the thought of a wife, who has a gaping hole in her hand. It makes your prophetic, and you come up with corny statements such as "Money doesnt come easy." Well, as I said, am still learning the ropes.
And then again, I cast my dreary eyes, the very eyes which stare endlessly into a screen, upon those branches, left threadbare with the departure of the leaves. I realize then that "Life is the longest game of musical chairs that I shall play". It makes me look beyond, and steels me into awaiting the challenges that the winter at Capgemini shall throw to me.
Work has been fun to say the least. Really good fun. Have made lots of new friends out there, and rediscovered a couple of old ones. But then again, friendships, in my case at least, have been ephemeral. They have always been that beautiful woman in the crowd, who gives you a smile for no reason at all (She could have been laughing at me, but I am an optimist), and then disappears into the darkness of time, never to be beheld again. Autumn of the group gathered has come, and just two of us remain. The leaves have been falling, and even the resolute ones shall part tomorrow. That leaves me, still coming to terms with my branches, wondering about the onset of spring. Winter, I remember, is not yet upon me.
But, putting aside the sorrows of autumn, I look at the sunset; autumn sunsets are indeed the most beautiful, with the sun beaming in a resplendent glow, converting the sky into an artists canvas. I recollect that paycheque, that first paycheque. Always beautiful, just like a baby. They are synonymous to an extent, the first paycheque, and a baby, the former is your first latter. That first cheque makes you realize the rocket science that is money management. It makes you quiver at the thought of a wife, who has a gaping hole in her hand. It makes your prophetic, and you come up with corny statements such as "Money doesnt come easy." Well, as I said, am still learning the ropes.
And then again, I cast my dreary eyes, the very eyes which stare endlessly into a screen, upon those branches, left threadbare with the departure of the leaves. I realize then that "Life is the longest game of musical chairs that I shall play". It makes me look beyond, and steels me into awaiting the challenges that the winter at Capgemini shall throw to me.
posted by Sunil Natraj at 10/15/2006 08:25:00 AM
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