What is the good part of
life – you know you are well educated, you have a secure job, you are getting a
salary and you are living. What is the bad part of life? You know you have to
keep working for the next 30 years to enjoy that good part of life! Yeah thirty
long years… muddling in the corporate world! Not that everyone needs to sweat
it out in the corporate rat race but those who need to you know what I am
talking about.
Sometimes you envy the
guys in HR depts or other departments where they have it relatively easy and
are home on time. But month after month when you have fight with the deadline
you feel like you are losing it, you are just on the verge of insanity somehow.
Does that happen with you?
I have also seen myself
and many more colleagues who don’t take our mandatory paid leaves. When you
have responsibilities on your shoulders you seem to forget totally about the
leaves. And when they get lapsed you brood over it.
Now this happens often
with me that I am working round the clock and sometimes even over weekends! The
family sulks over it that I am forever missing from all the important dates.
And when I get sometime over the weekend or a national holiday I don’t have the
energy to do anything, or go anywhere, forget about visiting a relative!
All you want to do in such
times is sleep over and get yourself charged up for the next day. But that
always doesn’t help. It does nothing to uplift your mood. It might just relax
your body – nothing other than that.
A few months back my
friends decided we should make a trip. When you are planning a trip with six or
seven people it’s difficult to get everyone ready on the same date. But after
the initial hiccups and shortening of the trip plans we decided a same day trip
to a nearby fishing camp. How’s that for some time off.
I purposefully left the
phone back home. [Wife never leaves her phone, so its okay]. We were so close
to nature and so far away from the bustling city – it was enough to calm myself
down. From having a hearty south Indian breakfast with friends to jumping in
the river without thinking anything it was pure fun and bliss.
I was meeting my friends
and their spouses after a long time but you know when you meet your buddies you
just pick up from where you had left without a trouble. We gorged on fishes and
took the coracle ride and spotted wild crocodiles. By the end of the long day
instead of feeling tired the only thing I felt was happy, relaxed, rejuvenated.
Was it the break? Was it
the friends? Was it the nature? Was it being close to my wife without worries of next day’s work?
What had worked? May be it was just the togetherness.
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This post is part of #Together campaign by https://housing.com/
