Long walk back…

Well, the time has come when I have to bid goodbye to my own Indore, which without a second thought accommodated me for almost 11 years now. Even though I have been abusing Indore like a politician does to opposition party, the city has never let me down whenever I need it the most.

I started this journey of 11 years as a school student and even though I couldn’t pick up thick friends like I had in Jabalpur / Chennai, I was content with the way things turned out. There were enough opportunities for me to hang on when I finished my graduation and I could continue till this point, really it should go into history books. They say “Faith bows to him, who knows how to wait” and I think I did the right thing. Spending 5+ years in a company, which I dreamt to be working with, was a great achievement so far in my life but as we try and reach to our expectations, aspirations tend to grow and the same happened to me also. Once as a part-timer in college and full timer in office I dreamt of becoming a software engineer and now when I have achieved that, I don’t want to wait for my own company which gave me everything so far to come out with a plan, instead I have decided to make my own fortune by venturing out.

I don’t know whether I am doing the right thing or not but I am sure that following your instincts is not wrong and I am doing the same. Leaving a city like Indore in which you have lived for so long (longest ever for me….) is not an easy choice, for you know that when you return from office there is always someone to take care of your needs and there are family members to fall back when you need them to be in your side. Living in Indore is like no cost for me, now when I think of setting up a new place at Pune then it seems like planning a career for me. Though things are not worse but you tend to fall back to your safest option whenever you come across such choices in life. They say “taking the path least traveled makes difference…” let that be true in my case (fingers crossed)

I think my heart would surely burst into tears on 4th of February which would be my last day in the company, I have to go against my sub-conscious to not to go to office on 5th, oh boy, is this what I wanted from the company, surely no. I don’t even want to complain at this point of time for I have got whatever I wanted from the co. and just that the pace of things didn’t suit me.

So, I shall be starting a new innings in a new civilization, (for me it’s like that only :-)). Like a opening batsmen I would like to start cautiously and then aggressively trying to keep the momentum going.

Till then, Good Bye! Indore, may be we were destined to live together for 11 years only.