Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Lonely Planet

and lonely me.... No I am not depressed, it occurred to me on one of the flights, while i was traveling crazily from one state to another in USA. I covered 5 states in 3 weeks trying to meet as many people as i can. On one of those flights while returning back to the place I worked, i was looking out of the window of the plane. It was already night and the cities were glowing far beneath, it was raining heavily at a far away place and the lightning appeared like a silver lining amidst the dark and dense clouds. Such a beautiful sight and when I turned my gaze inside the cabin it was mostly dark and everybody were asleep and it was as if the whole scenery was just made for me and me alone to appreciate. That was when I felt loneliness, amidst all the people, I was one among them, I was like every body else, but again totally different and totally isolated from everyone. Just like the planet, one among the many billions of heavenly bodies in the galaxy, yet so different, yet so lonely. Is this how it would have felt too, if it had a soul!!!!

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Random Connecting Dots

Here we are again... never thought it would happen.. back in the country that denied me an entry thrice... Yes people we are in the US of A, the place where all this blogging started 5 years back.

Finally the people at the U.S. Embassy decided that i am not much of a threat they thought i would be and granted me a visa to their country. In my first visit i worked in San Jose, California. During that period i visited my cousin in Dallas and had to change flights at Denver International Airport and i liked the airport a lot and i kept telling people how much i loved that airport.

Fast Forward five years, our new client is based in Longmont about 53 miles from Denver and I landed at the same airport. Now if i were a Sharukh khan fan i would say

इतनी शिद्दत से मैंने तुम्हे पाने की कोशिश की है
कि हर जर्रे ने मुझे तुमसे मिलाने कि साजिश की है

So i am back at the airport i liked a lot and not just once, I visited it six times during my three week stay. Now for the creme, I visited Dallas again to meet my SIL and got out of the same gate, i got out the first time i visited A30, I still remember it dont knwo why.

The first time i visited US, from our office building one could see Marriott hotel on one side and Adobe office on other side. My SIL's husband was traveling on work to San Jose, he stayed in that Marriott and worked in the Adobe office.

Well....