Perfect Bliss in Poverty

Those were the days when I completed my engineering and landed in Delhi after an initial period of hesitation which lasted for about six months.

The struggle which started in 1998 lasted till the year 2000 !!!

However during the intermittent break, my palette was never really empty.

I had initially joined an event management firm as a promoter.

Before you leap to conclusions, remember the guys and girls on the Delhi roads, who brave the scorching sun, and offer free samples of various products out in the market.

Offcourse I was lucky enough to be doling out branded products, and did not have to struggle much there...

In the process however ,I had to forget that I was an Engineer Graduate.

Those days spent at the Event Management firm opened up many facets of my personality, which even I was not aware of.

I gained oodles of confidence and my stage fright was a thing of the past.During that journey, I also managed to forge some good friendships.

It was as-if a whole new world had opened up for me.

I was meeting people, and one thing led to another.Money was never the criteria and never a constraint either.

Whatever little I earnt,was satisfying...

A successful stint in Event management would have opened very lucrative doors for me had my father chosen to look the other way. A hard kick , some harsh words, and an ultimatum jolted me out of my trance...

I have since , climed many ladders in my career (I am back to being an Engineer now !), yet when I look back at those days, I always seem to have very fond memories and nothing that I have today measures up to the euphoria of the days that were...

Less resources,lesser money, yet life was very cool.

With whatever little money I used to save, me and my brother would spend it to have a bottle of flavoured milk everyday in the evenings after dinner.It was something which we would look forward to daily.We were rebels back then.Out on our own,we did not want to take anything from our parents for surviving in Delhi.Guess we did start the learning process early on.

Today, with lots of professional experience in both domestic and overseas markets,lots of assets later, I still feel lonely and cut out from the world that was.

A time gone by, which was an era of Perfect Bliss in Poverty....