Onam to Karma

Happy Onam to all! I wish I could also have Kolan-Olan-Pachadi-Kichadi. I am not a Mallu. But that has never stopped my mom from making Olan, avial and payasam on Onam days. Sadly I have to make do with chapati-dal and sabji today. Sigh!

Few folks wished me Happy Onam. I was like pleasantly surprised. So when probed further, I was told that it is some south Indian festival, so I was being wished. Watever!

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A quiet weekend passed by.

I had a long conversation, lasting over few hours with my friend in US late on Friday night lasting well into the wee hours of Saturday morning. She is one of my closest friends. We've known each other for more than a decade. The funny part is that I have met her only twice, that too very briefly (max 2 hrs in total) in the past decade. We talk to each other once in couple of months; sharing small laughs and big gossips, discussing our big problems and small victories. She is my confidante, a person far removed from my regular life, to whom I talk with carefree abandon.

She has been in midst of problems and issues for a while. From playing the mediator to (supposedly) being the problem itself, she has braved it all. Caught and torn between people she loves, she cannot take sides. This hence makes her nobody's favourite. This definitely sounds quite like a drama series/ or a mega serial script with all the right elements. But sadly that is how it really is.

She is quite an inspiration. The way she has been handling the entire situation over past few years - sagacity, maturity and dignity – Exemplary! All I can offer her today is a patient ear and a silent prayer that things will get better. I know they will. I just hope it is sooner than later.

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I hurt my back a few months ago and after that my gym was being renovated. So I haven't been to my gym in the past 2-3 months. Yesterday the gym re-opened. It is refurbished, looks swanky and has quite a few new equipments. I promptly walked in to the gym with all enthusiasm. The moment I stepped on the weighing machine I realised that the scale was faulty. Or so I thought. I called upon the instructor to set it right. He insisted that the machine was perfectly fine. I asked him to read my weight accurately. He nonchalantly mentioned that I had lost 3 kgs in past two months. WooHoo!

And that piece of news basically did it. I lost all the enthusiasm I had for the gym. Finished. However , given the fact that I was at the gym and had changed already, I decided to test my stamina. I ran a mile or so in around 12 minutes flat. 50 crunches and 200 skips later, I declared with trumpets blowing all around that I was in super fit condition. and that I had discovered weight loss secrets unknown to all. I diddn't need the gym anymore. But my dearest friend MJ disagrees. She has threatened to yell at me if I discontinue my gym sessions. Given that I chat with her all through the day, I don’t really want to be at the receiving end of the yelling. So my gym sessions are going to continue for a few weeks I guess.

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I have always believed that work is just one aspect of our lives. It needn't and shouldn't be taken too seriously. A bad day is just that- A bad day. No point fretting over it. Work is marathon and not a 100 m dash. Etc. I have seldom carried my mood home from work in the last 3.5 years. However this time it is different. Something happened recently at work and I am generally irritated about it. I feel I have worked hard, earned and even I deserve what has been denied to me. It is even more unfair that I am the only person singled out from a group to be denied an opportunity. I strongly believe that whatever happens happens for the best. But, I am unable to see it. And this is not even the first time. that something similar is happening to me. Quite de-motivating.

Somewhere, I am desperately hoping that I will be able to encash all the positive Karma that I have hopefully accumulated for myself over all these years. Anyways, tomorrow is another day. Shall pick up my bag and trudge back to work. *crossed fingers, Crossed toes* Hoping for some luck*