Its a beautiful day

Date: 35th day of Q3 FY2009-2010
Location: Infosys Nethra DC, somewhere near the Karnataka/Kerala border.
Weather: Clear/Sunny day with no haze.
Mood: Read below.


The truth is that your cubicle never welcomes you, it’s your work that drags you into it and after yet another bumpy ride to work this morning pondering about all the work stacked up on my desktop and how to get them out of my plate I didn’t expect anything different today.

I love movies, the most exciting part I liked about movies is the opening of the curtain – these days that excitement is hard to feel thanks to the 30 mins of promos and trailers before the movie begins. Well as I walked into the office campus today, there was another curtain waiting to be lifted - it was the veil of haze that had until now shielded the magnificent view of the Arabian sea from our eyes. The western coast of India is hardly 10 KMs from this office which on clear days like today, that are hard to find, offers views of the Western Ghats to the East and the Arabian Sea to the west. It's been 3 weeks since I had started working at this office at the Nethra DC, yet I had to wait until today to see the Arabian sea - a sight that made an indelible impression on me and one that shall remain etched in my mind forever.

When I was a child, we used to stay at this place called Maharajpur in Gwalior, I used to watch Mirage 2000 fighter jets take off from close to 1 kilometer from my house, the initial excitement died out after 2 months, and the sound from the afterburners and the sonic booms were more of an annoyance than fun. Imagine that we had a view of the Arabian sea everyday, it would not have been half the fun it was today - this is nature's way of maintaining exclusivity! This is nature’s way of surprising us with a gift when we least expect it.

I fondly recollected the Band of Brother's episode where the Easy company camps at a castle in Austria with a beautiful lake next to it. Though I could not go for a swim like Major Winters did in that episode, I nevertheless felt transformed. The soothing sight this morning also brought about a realization - no one comes to office for work, we all come here for the experience. Experience is what matters and experiences are what count!

I started my day looking at paradise with Bono singing "it’s a beautiful day" inside my head. :)