The third and final part of chronicling last 2 years is really about my work life in Citi, and life outside Citi, @ Siffin Solah. The first year with my organisation was um, Meh types! Nothing
much happened. I met some amazing people though, Girish, Bidisha and so many
OTRC folks.
The second year was, well a desperate cry to someone/anyone
to save my life! I began my stint in people managing role in March 2014. Even 7
years of experience in banking could not prepare me for what awaited me there.
Everyone seemed to be in some inane rush, like always! Tempers were quick to fly. My style of managing was mostly too soft, passive and
ineffective, in comparison. those days, I felt like I was failing everyday. Work life balance had reduced to just a
fictitious idea. Once again, I got cornered into doing dirty work that nobody
cared to do. One great learning of this phase was that crazy begets crazy!
Quite often one found oneself bordering on crazy ideas, crazy timings, crazy
environments…just everything crazy. Nothing made sense anymore. I remember
being tired always! And Lord, how I dreaded month ends!
Outside of office, life at Siffin was ‘Chill’. Got a chance
to meet a lot of young people, smitten with the world of fashion, glamour, fame
or all three…..i eagerly looked forward to Game Nights @ Siffin. Then of course
there were several crazy house parties. People commonly featuring in these
were:- Harsh, Daniel, RJ, Parvati, Shweta, and ofcourse people from
Shweta/Parvati’s own group of friends. Siffin was a different experience for me actually.
I was used to being with people who were academically driven, with banking or
IT kind of domain. In contrast to it,, everyone I met at Siffin happened to be
from creative field. Barring Parvati, nobody gave a care about what was
happening in the world around them. It was a happily-disconnected-from -world,-yet
happy- being- themselves kind of group! Great to meet such people …
To conclude the final part, the unthinkable happened to me.
I had really given up all hopes of meeting someone in my life. But 2015 New
Year’s eve opened a new chapter for me, quite literally. Having run out of any
place to go, I ended up at a friend’s place to bring in the new year….and
that’s where I met N. little did I know that the friendship that began that
night would take the turn that it eventually did. To be honest, I didn’t take N
seriously for the longest time. And I think he wasn’t serious about it too….it
was just casual hanging out, spending time together, going for coffee (to
Trident), going for walks (to Joggers) kind of a thing. Around that time, N was
obsessed with the idea of going back to Gurgaon for some reason. I wanted to
dissuade him from it, request him to stay in Mumbai, that I hadn’t gotten to
know him yet to start long distance anything…..but I could not. And he moved
anyway.
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