This be another fresh Sunday morning. I’ve woken up with a
great mood, feeling completely pleasant and content. Gayu is in the kitchen
already and I’m sure some delicious aroma would waft this way in a few minutes.
Eli and Jumi are at church.
I feel quite thankful to the big guy up above. Thankful for
being able to share Giggles, aka HOME with these three. It’s been about a year
that we’ve started staying together, and this has been one of the best years of
my life.
The only thought in my mind after joining work was to get
away from here, ASAP, look for a job that’s closer to what I’d learnt, get away
from a place with silent, monotonous people who are glued to computers for most
part of their lives, and now I find that I feel differently.
We still run around in the Aakashganga society. Run around
as in hold our hands and literally run around the place. We still walk down the
roads singing songs and laughing loudly. We still manage to get into silly
misadventures and laugh ourselves to sleep most nights. One year at Infy does
not seem to have rubbed on its ‘silent-serious-monotonous-people’ effect on us.
Even my Infy hours are fun these days. I’ve started playing
badminton again. Thanks to Madhu. I’ve picked up quilling, something I’ve grown
to love. Giggles is a 100% quilling basic literacy achieved home. I’ve also
joined the Poona Musicale choir, so now even on my weekends I get to do something
really worthwhile and enjoyable. Music, you be such an awesome thing. If life
can be a song, currently, mine is a soft, smooth, happy one. Not a great
classical piece, but something like a good pop song from sometime back that’d
bring a smile on your lips when you hear it after ages quite unexpectedly.
Though things haven’t always been great, I know I can feel
alright pretty soon coz of the people I’m with. People do have that kind of an
effect on me. I was supposed to be the first one to leave Giggles, now it looks
like I’ll be the last. I’m quite happy with the way things are now, and when Jumi and Eli speaks of moving, I
feel uneasy. Now I understand how Gayu must have felt when all three of us, me
especially, used to speak of moving.
Some phases in life are simply too blissful that you’d want
time to stay still. I know it wouldn’t, and that time would fly by. But if it
could stop here for a while, I’d be only too happy. Giggles will never be the
same without all of us together. Just like the Harihar Nagar series wouldn’t be
the same without the 4 main characters.
But life will move on. None of us knew that we’d be working
at Infosys, of all the places, when we took up Journo, Vis comm. or literature.
But Infy happened. Giggles happened. Something better will happen to all of us.
And even after that, when we meet, I’m sure the madness will remain.
