Moving on to better things... perhaps

Mumbai – my birth place and abode until now... There, I was used to watching the fiery sphere set into the golden waters, while I unwound with family or friends. In Chennai, I see the sun rising out of the waters. Life has come around a full circle in more than one ways.

A lot of parameters change when you go back to being a student from being an “earner”. Friday evenings are no longer reverberating with sounds of TGIFT; for there are assignments and pre-reads to complete and good chances of an assessment coming your way in the next five days. This is the transition phase from being an asset to becoming a liability. Cash inflow is NIL but an outflow sure exists! A month ago, spending 500 over a coffee or snack or 1000 over a dinner went almost unnoticed. Now, all expenditures are recorded and accounted for. Sigh... Hangovers from my Financial Accounting class yesterday.

Eight hour sleep (albeit, not in one stretch) used to be a luxury I enjoyed over the weekends then. Now, it seems like an alluring dream... priceless and coveted. I had almost fallen out of the habit of having coffee breaks at unruly hours at night; now it seems to be haunting me again. The only difference will be - then my mother made it for me (mostly); and now it will be me; making one for myself or many cuppas for all of us here... :)

Well, it ain’t all that bad... these are greener pastures with great opportunities leading to newer avenues. Some make the best of it, some sail through it and for some others it may be just a haze. I am determined to make the most, if not the best, of it. God speed to me...!