Now there are zillion quotes about what change is,how to look at it and how to adjust towards it,everywhere. All that only look like words in a string and doesn't make a meaning when you actually have to undergo the change. And when it is about the way you live,it sure doesn't convey a single meaning to you. The best part about change is,you forget what you are,what you were,who you are and every little detail about you because you know that something is bound to happen to all that after the said
process.
I'm not intending to write on my philosophical notions of change,which I myself am not clear of. But there,I thought to write about my newly found companion,best friend and the one soul who waits for me patiently at my bed side till I wake up..
The Economic Times!! Not funny?.. Yeah! But I seem to have developed a closer rapport with those 20 odd pages. The first time I asked dad to make a subscription for a physical copy,mom gave me
the look.. which meant,
"What the hell do you have internet for?" And me being a SoNet addict(not everything..just
facebook), whenever I came online seemed only to open facebook on a tab and of course, our dear ET site too.. But the thing is,it was just for shifting tabs if someone
happened to look at my screen. I found no end to it and at this rate,I would be a redundant and obsolete
professional if at all I have the chances of becoming one. So the request was placed. Pleased at the request,thinking that I got my senses atleast now,dad subscribed to it right away. My Bad!! I was away on my own personal retreat to the Lignite Town.. So the first day it came,I wasn't there to welcome it or pamper it in my hands.. But when I was back four days later,I saw it waiting patiently in the stand and had some of its counterparts,
Business Outlook,Business World and more blahs. For a moment,I did regret my decision. NOW I AM DONE!!
Taking all the courage it needed,I took the paper in my hands found some boring stuff and left it at the place where I found it and resumed my SoNet activities and transferring the pictures(oh! a lot of it) to the laptop and all that.. When lights had to be put on,to me,it always meant Dad's arrival time and it was time.. Suddenly I got a feeling that I hadn't felt lately for over an year..like I had not prepared for the CIA Presentation in college.. So,I ran to the stand and took the paper and gave it a furious look and cursed myself a million times for inviting it in my life. Came to the favorite place in my room and settled there. Turned a few pages and there I found something interesting..! It was about KFC - the leading Chicken and Fastfood restaurant chain of India and took some interest in the matter(longing for the krushers and the choc amour). The
article detailed on KFC's restructuring strategy and expansion plans till 2015. And also there was one on Disney.. Now who wouldn't like it.. ;) The next day,there was something about pre lock- in conditions for preferential issue and woah! I knew about the intricacies and devoured the pages. And there started the relationship that I'm quite happy with till-date.
And now,when no one else wants to wish me a better morning,ET makes sure I do have a good one. And every morning,it reports on a
change!! Be it the CRR set by RBI or someone powerful in Skoda Auto being replaced by Sudhir Rao or the unexpected upturn in the predicted Stock dealings. There is always CHANGE in what ET reports. Reading all that,once made me think..
When the world cannot get over with all these changes..minor or major and that too on a daily basis, in one way or the other,how will I, an insignificant creature will retain everything without any change? And that, sure did
change the way I perceived things that are/were happening in my life.
I
have changed.. in the way I live,the way I think,the way I behave and the way I take charge of myself and I guess its not for the worse. THANK YOU,
ET!!
