Flow of Life

Date: 19^th January, 2015, 8:00 PM PST. Flying to Phoenix, Arizona from San Jose, California, US Airways.

My wife was in a bit of dilemma of what to do next after finishing her Masters in Pharmacy.. Whether to secure a job in Hyderabad, then come over to US and join me or come directly to US to look for the chances she has here to continue her studies.

I left wondering why I did not have these confusions of taking the next step in education or job? I do not have the slightest clue why I am a software engineer. I did not have such ambition and did not ever think of what to become in life.

• It all started in my last year of high school.. I did think of what to take up for my +2: Maths or Biology? Like a sheep in a herd, took up Maths (also which is a bit easier than Biology).
• After +2, which stream of graduation to take up? Electronics? Mechanical? Civil? Computers? Computer science engineering was the fashion at that time because of the jobs and salary it is going to fetch with an easy settlement in life. So took up Computers for my graduation.
• I wanted to secure a job after the graduation, due to the fact that I was becoming lazy to study anything further.
• Be it destiny or luck.. I got placed in a MNC company on 8^th July, 2008 in my first semester of my final year of graduation. Out of 960 members who attended the placement program, only 2 were selected into the company and I was one of them.
• My graduation ended on 30^th April, 2009 and I had my joining date on 22^nd Feb, 2010 with a gap of nearly 10 months which was the best free time for me. The only activities I did were eating, sleeping, and watching movies, roaming around city. My close friends went to US for their MS program. I took some time to get over them.
• The training period at Mysore between 22^nd Feb, 2010 to mid of July 2010 was a great learning experience with diverse persons and their backgrounds. Very fortunate to get a great set of friends at this time. A luxurious separate single room with 5 star facilities and a world class infrastructure of the campus, the training program, courses, back to back exams with negative marking and classes, assignments, movies every weekend in the campus multiplex.. It is an altogether different world. This is the best thing about the company.
• The first project at Hyderabad I was into learnt me a lot and gave me lessons for job and life. Thanks to my teammate(s).
• The second project at Mangalore from 13^th February to mid of July, 2012 is a huge milestone in my life personally and professionally. The 5 months plus stay at Mangalore in a single room without a TV, a proper fan, back breaking office work, 3 memorable bike trips, lot of books, the loneliness and the freedom is something I would always cherish for. Thanks to a friend there and for his gyan on sex education.

                    The thought of moving to development area from software testing got planted in my mind here.

• Back at Hyderabad, movement to a new unit, being in software development area with my training batch mates was good.
• Yet again, I moved to Bengaluru for 5 plus months between February 2013 to mid of July 2013. Late night office work often stretching into late mornings, visiting an open air bar, watching movies late nights on weekends, roaming around in Bengaluru city alone the whole day, exploring local markets, tasting food at popular food joints there. It was fun to be at a new place and a very good change from Hyderabad.
• A start of new phase in life.. getting engaged in August, 2013 and then resignation to bachelor life in December 2013.
• First trip to Dindi resorts at Palakollu and falling in love with Godavari river areas once again, lot of movies, busy busy office life, turning into a complete foodie freak, trip to Bengaluru for 5 days and rediscovering the city with my partner, self-driven drives to Madanapalli and Badami rock cut caves for 3 days each, memorable tirupati – tirumala trip just before my travel to US sums up my one happy year of marriage.

Probably any normal person’s life picks up speed once the graduation is complete. I followed the flow of life but did not ever think of where it is taking with me. I did not ever plan for things. I did not have the maturity level to decide a career for me when I was in my high school and exposure that I have now.

Everyone will have true testing times and I had them too.

P.S: Between all these, I did not miss watching movies. Someday I hope to be in movie industry or become a writer. (ha ha .. it’s a bit over board but everyone has their fascination right?)

Ending this article with my all time favorite quote:

"Hope is the essence of life"