Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Then and now
We used to have a life before we turned (or should i say metamorphosed) into software engineers. That life used to be a blast - now too it is a blast but of an entirely different kind.( will come to the current blast later!!!).Life before - we knew what was happening in the outside world. We knew changes in weather, changes in city/town horizon - every change in the area around us was noted with so much happiness and intensity. When it rained we used to say - great ....and the next moment we used to be out there getting drenched to our hearts content. With the summer came the lassi season and even without money we used to see the first day first show of any new movie. As if the movie won't survive if we didn't see....Just can't recount all those moments here just now....it is as if a humbling shower of emotions has engulfed me ......that's why switching back to present....Now i am a SW engineer. I don't know which season is going on. I need to look out of the office window to see and feel the season. I don't get wet anymore - most of the time i do not know that it’s raining outside...and even if i knew i don't think the deadlines would allow me to go there and enjoy the rains. I come in the morning and go in the night. Haven't seen a sunset or sunrise in ages. Sleeping brings a lot of dreams which tears away the bits and bytes (pun intended!!)of mind - only one thought uppermost even in the subconscious mind - about meeting the deadlines and solving the bugs ( just to remind, now whenever asked about the meaning of bug - i start with the SW bugs - already forgot that bugs are insects......). I do not know who our neighbors are - never get to see them.There is a lot to add to the hotchpotch life of SW engineer but i think this should give an in-depth view of what is going behind the scenes. The only good thing about it is - it gives us a decent amount of money - but this money acts a screensaver - which means it can only be used when you are free or idle- and those we have a precious few.But you know what even though it has taken a toll - there is one saving GRACE about all this - we are taking mankind and technology a step ahead in the future ..and i like that ...........
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2 comments:
You brought tears in my eyes buddy.
Although I agree with you but don't you think we always cherish our past and forget that what we doing today that is equally enjoyable, treasonable and some day down the line we will talk about these passing moments with our children or neighboring budha friend . While we were in UU that time didn't we talk about our school days and school friends and used to say like "Kya din the yar wo" and abhi bas kabhi Japanese padho ya phir semester ke liye tayari :) Believe me, every day we pass thru some beautiful moments and that get treasured automatically in our memory bank without letting us know. That's the beauty of god, and then 10 Yrs down the line phir bolenge kya din the taab kamse kam ladki ko samne samne taad to pa rahe the abhi taddo to log bolenge THa*** budha sala.
You are right about it - but the only caveat here is that if we are in our office for the whole day we don't have any memories to preserve except the bugs we found or the estimations we made.
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