I have been writing my personal diary since my college days but I never thought of sharing it with anyone. Reason being lack of time due to the race which many of us chase for, i.e. good grades, placements and job etc. and the habit to maintain the diary also ceased with this.

Everything was going as per plan, as I was scoring good in the race, and ended it up, getting placed in a reputed corporate,Maruti Suzuki India Limited. Getting the first salary is always a great feeling. New race began when I got confirmed. Step-by-step I was climbing the ladder to meet my aspirations, they were not mine actually, I realized later.(sorry for this customary sentence)

As a part of the race I was deputed to Suzuki Motor Corporation, Japan for one year training. The virtual shell in which I was living ,started to develop cracks and I was introduced to a completely new world, where I was all alone and independent. With more independence comes more sense responsibility, which I was not comfortable with.

I am flexible enough to be amalgamated with new people and surroundings, being in Japan I had to work hard to learn language, culture and Japanese rules/protocols etc through various means and developed a comfort zone. Japan chapter ended very smoothly leaving great learnings for me. I returned to India and started working again. ( I shall share Japan-Life in another blog)

Soon I realized that there is something which eats me up in my sub-conscious mind which I was unable to explore even when I was in Japan and here in India I was short of time due to new roles and responsibilities. So I decided to analyse it. It was nothing but increased level of dissatisfaction due to change in life style. So I thought of leaving my job in order to take up some sort of business. I was not mature enough to discover my legend, so I discussed this with my family, which turned out to be against my expectations. They were also favoring my decision to leave this job and start something on my own. But when you do not know you’re legend, then you have to live someone else’s. Also there was a two year service contract which I signed before going to Japan. I had to serve my organization as per service contract or have to pay a hefty amount of 1.7 MINR in order to get free.

I continued working there and managed my job, but everyday I used to count days towards my freedom. Time passed and I also passed time! Meanwhile I got elevated to higher post and role was slightly enhanced, but I survived. Then came the day when I got eligible to leave the organization, and I was so excited to put my resignation. it was 7th September 2015, I resigned from my role and had to serve notice period of three long months.

Good thing about my company as well as my department was that my notice period was like a honeymoon period, similar to induction period. Slowly all my work was handed over to my team and I used to spend my time by reading team-bhp auto blogs. during the notice period taking leaves was allowed in my company. and I had ample leaves in my account, so I started availing the same. My boss and his boss didn’t had any issues in that, until our divisional head ( we used to call him Pumba) raised an issue with my boss. As expected he called me and to my surprise he asked my if you want to get relieved early, then please make another application in back date and I would relieve you early, but asked me not to take any further leaves. I agreed!

But me and my room mate Shatru (Shatrunjay Rawat aka Khatru) resigned on the same date and would have got relieved on the same dates, but I had to take a hard step and I agreed for an early relieving. Khatru was comfortable with this and requested his boss for same but Sharma ji and Nair Sahab didn’t allowed him to do so.  So with lots of farewell sessions the day arrived i.e. 7th November 2015 and it was an end of an era which taught my actual life lessons. Farewell sessions continued after getting relieved from my Company. I had planned my return to Indore by my own vehicle along with my college buddy Siddharth.

One late night I was having booze with Shatru’s college friends namely Mukul Tamta ji, Mathu along with an amazing jamming session by Gaurav Pandey (GP). At 1 AM I received a call from my sister and what happened was indeed a shock for me!

My family had booked tickets from Indore to Delhi first flight at 5.45 AM. I didn’t knew what to do as rather alcohol was running in my body against blood, due to extended farewells. I went home at 2 AM and searched for lemon in refrigerator. Took 4 lemons in order to get sober by morning. Didn’t slept that night and was continuously checking my face in mirror whether my hangover got away or not, but instead it was getting worse as I didn’t slept. Some how I went to terminal-1 to receive my family and we came home. I slept for the whole day. Family told me that they will accompany me and Siddharth in my vehicle  during our return. That night we again had a party with Shatrunjay, Satyendra and my family at The Deewans Sector-29 and next day i.e. on 10th Nov we started for Indore and via Rajasthan we reached Indore at 9 PM. Siddharth left for Bhopal by bus as it was Dhan-Teras that night and everyone was in Diwali mood.

Post Diwali I went to Gurgaon for wrapping up my room and to have a joint farewell with Shatru, as he was also getting relieved on 7th Dec-2015.  We had good time there and had several meetups with Maruti and Manit friends. and I returned back indore on 12th Dec.

An era came to an end as it was my first company which is not less than first love, which taught me LoLz- Lesson Of Life, got parted off! It was nostalgic but Punarnava for my life-New Again.