4 Friends, 4 Thoughts

And they are...
Dinesh Nayak – “Health is Wealth”
Deba Sahoo – “Chicago Bull”
Subhendu Patra – “Techie No 1”
Bijaya Tripathy – “SAP Labs, What next?”

Thought 1: Premium Assets with Zero Depreciation
They are the most precious assets that I built in last 5 years. We fought at times on trivial issues. We enjoyed life to every bit of it. We struggled together for those waterless days at home. We cribbed about every movie that we saw together. We went for dinner to almost every destination in Bangalore. The only thing that I realize now is that every experience made the bond stronger. Now I miss them a lot. I wish I could get an immediate transfer to Bangalore to get my life back. Anyway, that’s part of life. We must stay away from something/somebody to realize it’s/his actual value.

Thought 2: Premium Service @ Zero Cost
Well, they are the ones who I know would help me under any circumstances. Same is the case with me as well. It’s the togetherness that made me feel so confident about them. 5 years and yet I never felt it when I was there. Suddenly I am out of Bangalore and feel the difference. But as I said, we helped each other always without any strings attached to it and hope to continue it in future as well.

Thought 3: Unique Brands
Everybody is so different than others. Oracle is Subhendu’s second home. He literally stays within the code. Dinesh still tries to convince himself that dieting would help him to reduce his weight. Unfortunately I haven’t seen any change so far. But his passion for technology always makes him stand apart. Deba feels he is here to conquer the world. And he is rightly so. 5 years down the line, I could see another BIG GUY on the Wall Street. As I said, everybody is a unique brand.

Thought 4: Finally it is a Brilliant Team
We together had discussed on lot of things/issues in life. We shared our secrets and at the end of the day we thought we could have faith on each other for rest of life. Everybody knew what other person’s thought process is. Accordingly everybody accommodates or adjust to suite the other person’s need. This looks simple from outside, but actually it’s complicated in all practical sense. We went for numerous number of trips, movies, lunches, dinners together. Hardly there was any conflict of interest. Even if there is any, we all were masters in resolving them. That’s why I call it as a brilliant team.

I am always thankful to have a set of roomies with whom I had best of my time in life. I will relish those 5 years always in my life. It gave me 3 of my closest ever friends, it brought a lot of change in me as a person. They all have some contribution towards all my success that I have got so far in life. I miss them all.

-Bijaya

Personality Matters

It’s being a while I have been contemplating on the topic of “Maintaining a Good Personality” in the society. I don’t really get a hang of what exactly it means. But finally understood in life that that’s the only thing which matters.

Now a days, life is not as easy as it used to be before. I often compare it with my life when I was a kid and find the other one to be more exciting and full of enthusiasm. Every word that you speak out now has good or bad in it. People judge you from what you say. So you must have control over what you say. If it is a professional matter, you may end up screwing up your career progression. If it is a personal matter, you may end up screwing up a marriage. Life has to move on. But you have to be the best judge of what you say. You can’t show up a persona that is true of yourself. You have to wear a mask where everything is good. Remember, everybody has problems. But your personality has to show up only the best things about you. That’s what going to win you everything in this world.

Childhood was not like this. It was simple. You behave the way you wanted to. You talk whatever comes to your mind. Everything was fun. There is no complacency, no hidden facts and no hard feelings. I wish I could go back and start my journey all over again. As we grow we are supposed to behave matured. We are supposed to make sacrifices. We are supposed to think on what we speak. We are supposed to be political in nature. We are supposed to be showing everything good about us. I don’t know, but I feel this to be a little weird. We all are human beings, we have our own way of looking at things. I still believe a little girl is much happier than a grown up one. It’s life and it goes on with all confusion and we never realize that we are just in the process of making it more complicated.

Thank you,

Bijaya