Un adiós Adiós nota ....

Deciding between Noida and Gurgaon was never easy until a senior (a training mate who was wrongly assumed to be a fresher like me) shed some light on the "advantages of working with the Gurgaon team." The climax of Part 1 of the journey was the realisation that the senior was way too senior and was on the same project assigned to me. 

 

The immediate-out-of-college journey started with:

- fun followed by frustrations in the first year with all hopes to resign after the probation period and then eventually landing up in the 2nd year's PBC (Personal Business Commitment) discussions.

taking an oath on Day 1 to tolerate the last Gurgaon winters and ultimately landing up cribbing about the 3rd winters.

promising to leave the place without a chap-fallen face.

optimistic about not making any out-of-office friends.

 

It all happened the vice versa since the day the expedition began, but only for good. Grappling hard to survive amidst all attritions and when nothing helped, the ‘Super girl’ image worked and motivated more to sustain and survive when there was no one in the dark night.

 

There were challenges, ups and downs, meeting a few strange mysterious people, loads of gyaans, wise advice and lessons, 'No-real' tortures, lots of learning, and my peak-level weird thoughts and philosophies.

The dark clouds over always had many silver linings every year that kept me going.

Thanking a few people will never be enough to make the three years of my journey happy and memorable.

 

The never-ever-imagined crazy night outs, re-living the 'Timtim' image even after the out-of-college-secured-zone, forming illogical family trees with a mom and with many dads, breakfast category gossip, lunch time filtered gossip, and the all-category gossip at Cyber Hub formed a picture frame with the best people in the picture placed inside. Sadly, not every person you meet or want fits in the picture, but fortunately, there is no story left unfinished. I never thought the out-of-college life would become an "in-college-life.

 

When I entered Gurgaon, my eyes glittered with the high-rise buildings of the Cyber City. I knew what I wanted, but I could not describe it to myself. It was all defined in parts in these three years. Leaving the place where I worked on my first project for 3 long years, my initial days' achievements in the IT industry, and where my future aspirations began won't be easy. When I bid adieu, I will miss the place not because of its high-rise buildings but because of the people I met here. It brought a gradual, impatient change into my life. It is said that it all ends one day, which starts... But this is just the beginning of the new end. The new dot is joined with the dots behind, and the picture is still yet to form!

 

I never thought the days spent here would compel me to frame the memories on my blog. I feel extremely happy and proud today when I pen down this write-up. It is so very special.

There is no last time for anything. The rotation of the earth is a ceaseless phenomenon. We meet to separate, and we separate to meet.

Still, a time-being-sign-off note for the city would be.
"Thank you, Gurgaon, for every joy and every cry! Wish to visit the city again with a story re-defined".