Sunday Evening Syndrome

I love my job, I hate my job, I work only for money, I need promotion... whatever category you fall in, there is always Sunday Evening Syndrome(SES).
Nobody, doing job or did it at some stage, need any explaination to this. With each passing moment after late afternoon, this syndrome starts growing on you. There is this feeling, you just want to skip the time and fast forward to Monday morning. Its like, the sight of doctor holding injection is more painful than actual act.
One can feel this more strongly in US than in India, at least I did. Saturday is more fun than sunday and friday night was the best. One has the liberty to take the risk of spoiling it. Saturday is always there to make up for it.
One might argue that, this is applicable to only those who dont enjoy the job. I doubt. Everyone goes through SES. This has nothing to do with the Job. One always enjoy the activity more if there is holiday on the next day. So great was the effect that till now,even as a employer, I always make sure that whenever we go for outing, there is holiday next day. Enjoyment level is high and one get good rest.

Going back to those days, whats the solution?
After lot of trial and error, we found the best solution (of course for us) worked out to be wine party starting at 6 pm. So now we had something to look forward to, all through afternoon. Guys, this is certainly the best way to beat the SES, drink wine. Now why wine? because you already have everything on friday and saturday. Wine somehow sounded decent on sunday evening.
Anyway, we had great time.(Has anyone heard other thing apart from this for weekend activity in US?).
No, seriously we had great time. We learned lot of things which I doubt that I could have ever learned. Like, reason to toast, there is PhD in wine tasting, one can tell the details of grapes by tasting wine. It was wonderfull to know that people actually drink for other reasons than getting drunk. There was no dearth of topics on sunday evening with wine. We sounded more academic and scholarly in these discussions (I am comparing this to saturday night). It could range from engineering to medicine to astronomy to economics to politics to sport to films to phylosophy and others which obviously I cant mention here. It also helped to know each other in better way. The end used to be little bit unpleasant over the topic of cleaning the place. Worst part, it always used to be at our apartment.
But overall the sunday evening was more pleasant with this way. The time just flew and fast forwarded to Monday Morning.

Brief Track till this date

Here are the brief tracking of past to this date.
This post is going to be kind of index for the life till now. Everyone might not be hooked up. With the risk of sounding mundane, I am writing this.
I will like to divide this in 2 parts. One is the timeline tracking of events happened, life I followed. Second is the mindset, thoughts I developed from time to time.
I am briefing first part here. For second part, it will be mostly flashback kind of thing in the future, if I found some reference. Also there are shifts in the mindset, understanding the world around me from time to time. So its relative. What is more objective is first part, the actual life I followed.
It can be categorised into 4 parts.

1. Life in village where even electricity was luxury which I got at home in second part of childhood. This is the stage of life where the basic mindset of keep going against all odds and carving the life happened.
People are more lively at this stage, human interaction at its peak. Intentions are obvious in the actions. Simple and natural living.
2. Life in Pune as student and the first job later. In this stage, I got a chance to bring myself on broader platform and exploring, dreaming lot of things. This is where I learned the term hidden agenda. Being COEPian, the apt term is all Gotya.
3. Life in USA as student and second job. This is where I lived a dream. Woke up from the dream.
I realised that India is where my roots are. In filmy style, Apane hi paani me pighalana barf ka mukkadar hota hain. (Melting in own water is the destiny of ice)
4. Life in India as serial enterprenuer. This is the most exciting and struggling part I am doing till now from the moment I returned to India. This is the time, I realised how things are grey and not black&white. Even 2 contrasting things are true at their best. One can be right and wrong at the same time, for the same reason.

I hope to blog these parts in detail at some stage.

Here am I

It was evening time. I just woke up from sleep and came out of hut. All fresh air around, just after the sunset, movements in the atmosphere seems to be fast paced. People were returning home from farm. Someone was busy getting all the chicken inside the shelter. Kids were busy in their play.
In all this, after waking up, I sensed strange feeling of not knowing who am I and why am I here! I got confused. After spending some moments, I regained enough sense to relate myself around my surrounding.
I noticed my mother, cleaning the utensils, went to her and ask "Bai, what happened?"
"You have just woke up. Freshen up."
That was certainly right answer but not what I was looking for.  Maybe I couldnt framed my question rightly.
I just stood there for some time and the feeling of strangeness wiped out slowly and I was back in life. Of course without knowing who am I and what am I doing. But as the question wiped out, answer was not required.

It was afternoon time just sometime back. Lot of rush around. Support engineers were busy with managing customers. Developers busy with coding. I had just finished aligning todays tasks with people and was planning for next activities.
All of sudden, I developed strange feeling of who am I and what am I doing here.
I just sat for some time. Took a sip of tea and waited. It wiped out after some time.
Thankfully by this time, I am way too much familiar with this feeling and know how to handle it. The feeling which I got first time as a 5 year old kid is still there, questions are still unanswered, I still try to figure it out.
Every time I got different and interesting answers. Every time I was able to get back the sense and relate myself with surrounding. Here am I.

So this is a journey to track the feeling, to pursue the answers.
What to do in the meantime? Work hard and enjoy the life!!!