Life moves on , it moves on even if New York is bombed(the Yankees can excuse me) , it moves on when Gandhi is assassinated and it will continue moving the way it has been .
This is best when experienced in person.
It's a bright , fresh , new day . All days are like that ? Quite debatable – I know . If you are the intellectual type you might say - “ Well Aseem , it depends .... “
I power-up the laptop and even before I can log into the ubiquitous Microsoft Windows XP system I hear from a colleague that one of our Team members has passed away.
A 26 year old – and suicide !!. This guy was doing “great” -this is what his Manager says . Rumors afloat and they spread like wild fire(I've not seen a wild fire but I'm imagining ) . Was it for love ? Stress ?or may be a murder ?
“You know I just met him the other day – he was so happy .”. “ Oh dear I was sipping coffee with him just a while ago “..... People have different ways to sympathize .
Certainly not a perfect start for the day and I'm finding hard how to react and what expressions should float on my face are not governed by me – they come – from where – I am not sure .
The Manager declares : We're not working . But then we Indians never care , we still work . I can find many smiling and cracking jokes and that too very next to the cubicle where this guy used to work .
Life moves on for Indians at a much faster pace for sure.
An email pops up - “We've done fabulous in this quarter and each employee deserves an award “ . And before I could finish reading the email I see the gifts arriving . This is fast , very fast indeed.
Engineers are not supposed to move . We get everything right where we sit ,after all we have to conserve energy for more useful chores.
Faces lit up , the whole work place is buzzing with excitement .
“ What's this ? “ , “Hey did you get the same stuff” , “ John why are you never happy with anything you are given ? “ , “ Can I have one more please “ .......
Somewhere in these gifts our colleague (we lost – hope you remember ) is lost for ever . And life moves on !!
