MY LIFE's 10 DAYS.

So the D-Day has arrived. Even though it's happening I am not able to fathom the fact that I am going home today on this cold October night from a place I never thought I would stay for such a long time (...will be completing 10 months in Bhubaneswar!!!) leave alone working for a software company. Life and its strange ways :-) Well its been a learning experience and yes a passage of time where I had a brief siesta with the IT industry as a fresh college-passout. Varying emotions from frustration to elation marked my ongoing short stay over here...right from the lab-days, the tranings on MortgageServ, the induction process, the not-so perfect planning(....very unlikely DP-style !!!) to the days of frustration of no-work...TT...endless sarcastic discussions to the days of elation and recognition when i won in the SBG-Satyam Banking Group contest...and to TODAY the 5th of November, 2004 when I am going home a feeling of emotion wraps me over and cant help stop it...after a huge gap of time I will be meeting my parents,my friends and my home which has shaped me to what I am today...a silent prayer goes out to all the beautiful persons out there who have helped me directly or indirectly to be what i am today...HATS OFF TO YOU!!!...

A thought escapes from my mind...my dreams,my aspirations,my goals in life...a blue-print is needed for this trip...there is something in life that needs to be achieved...Do it Buddy ... Do it....a feeling of completeness overcomes and gives me an assurance that I am going to achieve my dreams in my life...and yes I am going to make these 10 days in Bangalore count towards that...I am going to live my life in these 10 days...ALL THE BEST buddy ... Live ur Life!!!

These are a few lines from Robert Frost....

~~~~~ ON LOOKING UP BY CHANCE AT THE CONSTELLATIONS ~~~~~

You'll wait a long, long time for anything much
To happen in heaven beyond the floats of cloud
And the Northern Lights that run like tingling nerves.
The sun and moon get crossed, but they never touch,
Nor strike out fire from each other nor crash out loud.
The planets seem to interfere in their curves
But nothing ever happens, no harm is done.
We may as well go patiently on with our life,
And look elsewhere than to stars and moon and sun
For the shocks and changes we need to keep us sane.
It is true the longest drought will end in rain,
The longest peace in China will end in strife.
Still it wouldn't reward the watcher to stay awake
In hopes of seeing the calm of heaven break
On his particular time and personal sight.
That calm seems certainly safe to last to-night.



~~~~~ THE ROAD NOT TAKEN ~~~~~

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Cheers,

Durga :-)