It has been tough days ever since my contract was terminated with Proximus. I had to leave Belgium where I had established a home of my choice and enjoyed a life tailored to my wishes. It wasn’t perfect, but was in many ways how I dreamt of living – a house with just the kind of furnitures that I liked, an independent lifestyle, the possibility to travel at my wish and few good friends to hang-out with. If I had a partner it would have been the dream life in reality. All this came to an end when Larry Ellison (CEO, Oracle) made a hostile bid for Peoplesoft. The project came to a premature closure and as it turned out, just my contract came to a halt. With limited contacts and other business constraints I failed to get another contract and so my honeymoon with eveything Belgian ended abruptly.

After returning to India, I rejoined the Indian firm. Two months have passed and yet I am yet to be alloted to a project. It is not easy to sit idle when one is not used to it, for a while it is ok but not for long.

I believe that, as evey good thing comes to an end, even a bad thing comes to an end. I have experienced it time and again. Finding the first job, facing the wrath of a CEO for greeting a girl on Newyear (He was a psychopath who informally banned unofficial conversations between opposite sexes. Any laughter in the conversation meant an unwanted conversation. He threatened to beat people who disobeyed with rowdies and he did. Those were the scariest days. However, I escaped.), being taken out of project for political reasons and so on. Invariably, every bad thing turned life for better.

Now-a-days, every morning I wake up with a hope that, that day will be a good-news day. By night it is a disappointment but I say to myself – This too shall pass.