It takes quite an effort to take the decision of quitting from an organization, where you had been gainfully employed for 9 long years. And that too, when you started your work there it was a start-up and later became a behemoth and you can take pride in making it so by contributing your bit.
Come to think of it, leaving a job of 9 years is something like divorce. Death & Divorce are highly personal according to me. There is no overt reason about why these stuff happen. But people inside would have suffered silently for long that they would rather welcome the end.
There will be some untellable reason that would force someone to take the extreme step of quitting a marriage, which mostly gets played to an audience that includes the ‘supposed’ stakeholders who are not an actual part of the marriage. Deep inside you would know nothing works and the marriage sucks. There will not even be a mirage of happiness in the couple of centuries to come. But you may still hang on, not even on the proverbial thread of hope, but out of sheer compulsion of the playing the main role in the drama. Afterall the audience loves it !!
This is all because at most times we don’t want to hurt people. We want to take the role of Atlas and carry the burden of the world on our shoulder and smile for a mug shot. Only you know that the knees are jelly and given a chance you will throw the world aside and sit down for a while. Or sometimes because of fear! Fear of an uncertain future ( actually this is a redundant phrase, when has future ever been certain ) , whether life will be the same after I quit. But if the current one is plain shit, why would you even care about how shittier future can become.
Actually all these symptoms should appear when you quit a 9 year job. Your throat gets parched, the fingers tremble while you type the letter of separation, get maudlin about leaving the folks with whom you have associated for half of your professional life, start thinking that furniture will miss you and strongly believe that the business will die without you.
For me, there is nothing like that. I am plainly delirious. I care a damn about what is in store for me in the so-called uncertain future. All I know that my present is simply great, after having taken a decision.
I feel light as if I have attained Nirvana. And I am soaked in a state of bliss and feel like that I am sitting on top of the world that Atlas carries. And I will tell you, it is much better to sit on top than carrying it. I would highly recommend it to all. : ))
Come to think of it, leaving a job of 9 years is something like divorce. Death & Divorce are highly personal according to me. There is no overt reason about why these stuff happen. But people inside would have suffered silently for long that they would rather welcome the end.
There will be some untellable reason that would force someone to take the extreme step of quitting a marriage, which mostly gets played to an audience that includes the ‘supposed’ stakeholders who are not an actual part of the marriage. Deep inside you would know nothing works and the marriage sucks. There will not even be a mirage of happiness in the couple of centuries to come. But you may still hang on, not even on the proverbial thread of hope, but out of sheer compulsion of the playing the main role in the drama. Afterall the audience loves it !!
This is all because at most times we don’t want to hurt people. We want to take the role of Atlas and carry the burden of the world on our shoulder and smile for a mug shot. Only you know that the knees are jelly and given a chance you will throw the world aside and sit down for a while. Or sometimes because of fear! Fear of an uncertain future ( actually this is a redundant phrase, when has future ever been certain ) , whether life will be the same after I quit. But if the current one is plain shit, why would you even care about how shittier future can become.
Actually all these symptoms should appear when you quit a 9 year job. Your throat gets parched, the fingers tremble while you type the letter of separation, get maudlin about leaving the folks with whom you have associated for half of your professional life, start thinking that furniture will miss you and strongly believe that the business will die without you.
For me, there is nothing like that. I am plainly delirious. I care a damn about what is in store for me in the so-called uncertain future. All I know that my present is simply great, after having taken a decision.
I feel light as if I have attained Nirvana. And I am soaked in a state of bliss and feel like that I am sitting on top of the world that Atlas carries. And I will tell you, it is much better to sit on top than carrying it. I would highly recommend it to all. : ))
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All The Best!!!
But seems you already have all of the Best you ever needed:-)
Now that I can speak without the fear of being mistaken for flattery--here is something i have wanted to tell you-- THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!!! (even the occassional Kick in the a**-- i like to believe that they have not gone waste and contributed their bit)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
All the best
And stick to the WRITE-eous path..
ie keep writing...
u have ur spartans ready any time,to be on the top of the world.
when ever u need ru 300. we are just a call away.
Regards
Mr.X
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