Life in a new city...

Below is a snippet of info from one of my fav books,"Buddha" by Osho,
"Buddhist monks never stay in a place for more than 3 days for a period of 8 months. Only during the rainy season of 4 months, they stay in the same place." Osho continues to marvel on the quite strange phenomenon of human tendency to become more comfortable and accustomed to a place if they continue to stay for more than 3 days and hence the 3 day deadline followed by the buddhist monks.

When Human returned from UK,Europe after around 2 months or so, her first comment on entering the house was,"It was really great out there. I miss it".
And my reply was the above quote which made her go into a nodding state :)

So, it has been more than 10days since i moved into a new city.

And I hated it to the core for the first week. Because suddenly life seems to have become hectic and more scheduled.

Infact one thing i hated in US is spending every day as per some schedule...In US, i used to drive to a place for jogging everyday morning...While returning at 7am, the leftside of the road used to be totally empty while the right side was totally jammed...because that is the time when everybody leaves to office.

Now, my life seems to have ended up like that...7.15am is the cab time...everybody reached office at 8am...return cab is at 5pm and everybody reaches home by 6-6.30pm.

Ok, some might argue that it's good to return home early so that one can spend quality evening time...but the mere thought of seeing the exact same faces in the bus stop or while walking towards the bus stop is quite irritating for me...it's as if every single weekday is no different from the other which in turn sometimes makes me wonder on the exact day!
Also, now one is forced to get up at 5.45am during weekdays that i am not even able to sleep beyond 8.30am during weekends...This is in stark contrast to the great life one had in prev city. I can only imagine how great life was, when one had the luxury to get up at 8am, get ready at 9.15am, reach office at 9.30am :( (I sometimes wonder, maybe this is my brother's curse, which has forced such a schedule to me now...because he was the one who used to reach office by 8.30am and be jealous of my laid back schedule of office hours!)
Anyway, now if i think, this seems to be better than what people go thru in Mumbai! Because this used to be the schedule for my brother when he stayed there for 1 month,
Get up at 6am, get ready by 7.15am, 10mts walk to station, catch the train at 7.30am, reach office station at 8.45am, 10mts walk to office, start working at 9am, leave office at 6.15pm or 6.30pm, catch train at 7pm, reach home at 8.15pm, have dinner and sleep at 10pm.
By the end of 1 month, he, the cool, easygoing guy, became so philosophical that he started questioning the purpose of life, job, earning, joy and materialistic life :)

Anyway, coming back to me, there is one more strange thing. In office, everybody seems to be working always..."How's it possible?" That was my brother's surprised question...But, that is the truth...It's more of an open office and i can see atleast 4-5 of my colleagues monitors and never once i saw gmail site...I generally donot browse any unnecessary stuff or chat a lot during office hours, but i think it's terribly inhuman to be working for the whole 8 hours.

Honestly, with terrible guilt, i am typing this blog post now...(yet to get net at home) Now, one understands why i haven't posted for the last 2 weeks ;) And, i seem to be mentally writing a complete post in the evenings...hmm, so much to addiction.

Inspite of these irritations and upsets, one great thing is, one can go home for weekends and parents are happy.

Infact, it even made me wish there was a similar bullet train lines in India...
Then one can actually stay at home and also work in a different city... A travel of 3-4 hours per day will be worth it.

And i wonder, maybe the current recession period is the right time to spend on Infrastructure. Because the commodities prices are down and this spending will also generate employment within the country...