My day started when I woke up at around 9 and wished one of my roommates Mr. H, happy birthday. Both of them left as soon as I woke up, and I was all alone in the room. I dressed up, had some almonds and a few bananas and left for my office. I reached by around 10.30 and started scrolling as it has become my routine once I reach the office. I had already completed my tasks which were scheduled for review, but none of my seniors were ready to connect. One of my colleagues and I were talking about our daily lives and he asked me whether I went for outings on weekends, and I replied, not every weekend, but yes, most of the weekends, I travel, and I like it. His hometown is in Nagercoil and he suggested a few attractions that are a must visit once you plan to roam in Nagercoil. I have added them to my trip list, and I hope I will be able to cover them up when I travel there.
After my scrum and my lunch, I sat on to do the pending tasks which were assigned, specifically test cases. My senior mentioned me to take up her stories as well, as she was on sick leave. I took three of her stories for the time being and started working upon it. Two of them were completed by the end of my working hours and I informed her about the same, but she wasn’t ready for a review that day. I also had a black coffee with my colleagues, as a stress buster.
I returned to my hostel at around 6.30, had a few bananas as a pre workout and went on to hit the gym. I had to train my back and lats today. When I started my workout, there was another man who was working concurrently with me and I decided to familiarise with him. He was a 45 year old fit man, who was once a techie, but has now enrolled himself in a government job as an officer, not in Police. I asked whether he was satisfied with his job, I expected a positive reply, but the answer was the exact opposite. He worked in the IT field for almost 10 years and switched his career to serve the government on the urge of his wife, he mentioned. But after serving the government for another 10 years, he said, he wasn’t happy with what he was doing. He has been doing the same stuff all day long from the past 10 years and he was bored with it. Now he is looking to start some business of his own or to freelance with his networking skills in technology. I didn’t ask him for any advice, neither did he advise me. He was mindful of taking risks during his IT job, and is still ready to take risks to end this boring government job. I can’t take inspiration from him, but at least I was able to learn the ways through which his life had gone through and is going through right now. I completed my workout and returned back to my hostel in a mild rain.
I called my dad, and after the call I felt like I was kind of rude to him. But let me give you the context first. My dad has been building a home of his own in his hometown, and the work is almost finished. He had a meeting with the astrologer for deciding the date of house warming, as per Hindu mythology we consult a pandit for the best dates for auspicious occasions. And the date he received was a Monday, whereas I was expecting it to be a Saturday or Sunday. As soon as I heard Monday, my mood went off, as I had to take a leave on Monday to attend the same, and my tonality of conversation slightly changed. Maybe not too much, but the change was visible from my voice, and I hung up the call soon. Still I regret it. But then I realised, this is one of the most awaited and auspicious occasions in his life, and he would be expecting his son, me, to assist and join him, on this occasion. I felt bad for him, and decided to take a two day leave for completely engaging in the occasion and making those moments memorable forever. These are the small contributions that I could offer him for his happiness, and I would contribute to it cent percent.
Mr. V came back and suddenly ordered me to book a cake for Mr. H, as it was his birthday. It was already raining heavily, and I hadn’t even had my dinner either. I don’t like his impatience. I told him to wait for sometime until I completed my dinner and came back. But, I thought, why should we buy one? First of all, he wasn’t in the room, and only returned at around 2, late at night. What would have we done with the cake without him? Eat and celebrate on our own? These are some illogical and impatient decisions made by V and I hate such impulsive behaviour of his. Even though, I scrolled to order any of the same, I dropped my decision to buy one, as V was already asleep and H hadn’t arrived yet. And that was one of the best decisions of mine yesterday. And concurrently, I decided to order an egg boiler for myself, a decent quality one, as I don’t want to take future risks that cheap ones offer. Decision switching really works.
I slept without writing, but wasn’t able to sleep for one hour or so, and I decided to listen to a podcast. Listening to podcasts is actually effective in creating a trigger for sleep. Once I felt like my eyes were closing down, I paused it and slept right away.