THE JOB

This is my first post as a salaried person. Thats right! This free spirit has been shackled in the dungeons of corporate greed. Well, should I say greed? Mmmm... may be not, this company has quite respectable principles.

Nevertheless, it is still a "company", and I do genuinely feel constrained. I guess that is the norm.

Sundeep had shared a cartoon about how each one thinks he is the only one who thinks in a world of job-obsessed "automatons" aka "mindless sheep". I used to think the same way, that I was the only one thinking about anything worth thinking about : the universe, human spirit etc. But now I know, each one is thinking about something, although some may be thinking if Rakhi Sawant is actually gonna marry the winner of a show... Well I wont judge, each one with his/her own ideas of what is important. :D

There are several proverbs in malayalam that highlights the fact that, a human, cannot change his/her underlying uniqueness. Most of them are meant to be derogatory, but I find even those to be positive.

"Naaya nadukadalilum nakkiye kudikkuvollu" -- Even in the middle of the ocean, a dog will still drink by LAPPING the water

This one is meant to be an insult, but... to a dog, its simply a fact, a statement. The dog will probably think... "Well... duuh" and roll his eyes.

Yesterday, I wrote a module to bridge an old intra die communication protocol to a new one. After confirming the waveforms were as expected, I called it a day, and left work. In the lift I started thinking about how we spent so much time trying to mold something old to still be functional with something new, something better. We try to bridge the gap between two very different things, instead of choosing a side! And then I smiled in my head. Shackled and constrained I may be, but, I still remain the same old me. This dog, is still lapping up the water, even in the middle of the ocean. Yeah!