The term ‘first’ is always special. The first school that you attended, the first teacher who taught you, the first time you wrote all the 24 alphabets correctly, the first time you topped your class and the first time when the most gorgeous girl of you college smiled at you. They are the things that remain with you as your most cherished moments of your life till your last breath. And also there is something nice in becoming independent. It brings you the feeling that you are different as a human being and that enhances your self-confidence. You come out of your dependence on your parents. But I believe that you can call yourself independent only if you are financially independent. The city of Mysore holds that distinction of making me independent for the first time. It is the city that saw me first as a professional.
I really don’t want to describe what Mysore is famous for and what sight seeing places this region accommodates. This I believe you can read in any travel-guide. But this is a piece where I want to describe my connection with the city.
I have already told that I came here to take up my first job. When I reached this town, frankly there was nothing sort of love-at-first-sight. I had come here after finishing my engineering in Bangalore. It’s quite difficult for a guy who has spent considerable time in Bangalore to adapt to a pensioners paradise like Mysore. The first thing that was deafening was the silence on the roads and streets. I felt as though I have landed somewhere only by my hard-luck. In short I had not come to Mysore with a great spirit. Somewhere down in my heart I felt I deserved better. I was frustrated at everything visible and otherwise. But I feel human-being has got limitation to imagination, and I am no exception. I had not even a speck of hint that this very city with bring about a different meaning to my life itself.
The foremost thing that made fall in love with the city was it being non-expensive. The salary that I was drawing would not have been a great deal in Bangalore, but here in Mysore I was leading a life king size. I can say without a second thought that those were a days of life time. It seemed so that I had all the time in the world to do whatever I want to. My employer too had contributed in more than one ways for this. Those Friday snacks at push-carts near Discount World, the evening walk from there to my room, the calmness everywhere made me think that I was already retired. One of the things that I loved was the snacks at our company’s food- courts. Those bhajis, dosas, pav-bhajis makes my mouth watery even now. The chai and biscuits at a tea-stall near my room were something that I long for even now.
I am in spirit an introvert. But interestingly the number of friends I made here exceeds the number that I made in my entire life. It was just as common as sun rising in the east that my friends and I undertook quite a few trips to some fine places nearby. Last but not the least, this place quenched my thirst for books. Thanks to my employer who had a well furnished library, I was able to read some of the outstanding books. They have tried in making me just, wise and overall have increased my understanding. Books have been my best friends from then on.
Thanks Mysore for all that you have given me. I owe a lot to you!
I really don’t want to describe what Mysore is famous for and what sight seeing places this region accommodates. This I believe you can read in any travel-guide. But this is a piece where I want to describe my connection with the city.
I have already told that I came here to take up my first job. When I reached this town, frankly there was nothing sort of love-at-first-sight. I had come here after finishing my engineering in Bangalore. It’s quite difficult for a guy who has spent considerable time in Bangalore to adapt to a pensioners paradise like Mysore. The first thing that was deafening was the silence on the roads and streets. I felt as though I have landed somewhere only by my hard-luck. In short I had not come to Mysore with a great spirit. Somewhere down in my heart I felt I deserved better. I was frustrated at everything visible and otherwise. But I feel human-being has got limitation to imagination, and I am no exception. I had not even a speck of hint that this very city with bring about a different meaning to my life itself.
The foremost thing that made fall in love with the city was it being non-expensive. The salary that I was drawing would not have been a great deal in Bangalore, but here in Mysore I was leading a life king size. I can say without a second thought that those were a days of life time. It seemed so that I had all the time in the world to do whatever I want to. My employer too had contributed in more than one ways for this. Those Friday snacks at push-carts near Discount World, the evening walk from there to my room, the calmness everywhere made me think that I was already retired. One of the things that I loved was the snacks at our company’s food- courts. Those bhajis, dosas, pav-bhajis makes my mouth watery even now. The chai and biscuits at a tea-stall near my room were something that I long for even now.
I am in spirit an introvert. But interestingly the number of friends I made here exceeds the number that I made in my entire life. It was just as common as sun rising in the east that my friends and I undertook quite a few trips to some fine places nearby. Last but not the least, this place quenched my thirst for books. Thanks to my employer who had a well furnished library, I was able to read some of the outstanding books. They have tried in making me just, wise and overall have increased my understanding. Books have been my best friends from then on.
Thanks Mysore for all that you have given me. I owe a lot to you!
4 comments:
A nice blog man! Thanks for having such a good outlook towards my home town. I too a owe a lot to Mysore.
well written .. probably you could include more about Infy life .. because that's the major thing that we all did in Mysore .. also about th e opportunities provided by Infy program which could have turned us into something else but we did only to some extent .. :-)
good blog..asusual excellent english.
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