My life was always a roller coaster ride, so I blamed nothing ; particularly time for the bad things happened to me. I knew nothing is permanent, if one day I laugh, the next day I may cry. If one day I'm happy the next day I may be sad. But, on the last day of last month, I was expecting a beautiful month of September ahead. I had many reasons for that. We were having Onam on first week, had a colleague's wedding for a get together, had plan to celebrate Onam in the office for the first time and there were planning for Hindi day celebrations at the office which was happened to be a happy occasion last time and the month ends with 5 days holidays. So, logically I expected an auspicious month in September, but yes, as you expect now it turned out to be one of the chaotic months in my life. It was a real test.
My colleague's wedding day and first day of Onam interspersed. I was expecting a good start for Onam by celebrating it with my colleague's at the wedding, but somehow the mood was dampened by the distance I had to cover to reach the destination by bus. And again the feed back I got was not at all positive, even in my 2500 Rs new glittering chudidar every body felt me tired and a bit ordinary. Yup, I know, what's so to worry in this. But, I think it was a blunt start,just pointed to what comes next.
My Onam celebration with my family was also not went well due the talk related to my marriage. If you have relatives who doesn't know what to speak when and how to treat others, this was about to happen.
Most unexpected developments was waiting to happen for me. On 6th of September, I went back to my workplace with the knowledge that there would be an inspection by General Manager. My whole family struggled and somehow made arrangements for my early departure from my home that too at 3.30 in the morning so that I might reach the office early which was a 7 hours 30 minutes journey usually. My mother had advised me to take leave,but I didn't heed her words as I was blindly obeying my manager's instruction to come before 11 somehow. But I could reach the office only at 10.35 and was able to give the bio-metric attendance only 10 minutes after due to some technical glitches. But in the evening,i was blaming myself for not paying attention to my mother's words. General Manager called me in the cabin and after giving enough advice regarding the office timings, instructed me to mend my ways. I know I had to hear from my superior because I was late, but that was easily avoidable if I took leave. When me and my family tried our maximum in the torrential rain to make me present at the office on time and still I got my first official warning,my other colleagues who did nothing and took leave had to bear nothing.
Then followed the most harrowing experience of my short spanned professional life. Deviating from the expected orders, new office orders regarding some supplementary storage payment reached the my office on the first week itself. The GM visit and office Onam celebrations passed through this. I spend each minutes of my life checking some bills for weeks now. And it's still not completed. It's not good when your office come to your dining table and bed room. I was handling more than I could and was sleeping with storage bills all the time. It was distressing and still haunts me,and it will until I finishes it.
Finally the weekend has come, by taking one leave I could be enjoying 5 days at home. And on the day of planned departure to my home, the most surprising 'surprise visit' of Executive Director was announced. And Ta Da, I was asked to stay back there till evening. So, I had to take one of my holidays for travelling to home in the next day of ED visit. Apparently I'm relieved that even if I couldn't come home that day, I put my bio-metric well before 10 on at least in the ED inspection. From the first inspection in the month, it was clear for me that even if you come at or before 10 am on 364 days doesn't count if you come half an hour late on the 365th inspection day. Considering this, the last inspection didn't cost me much.
Yup, I'm very glad to get rid off September. And when I think more, all of the issues I faced this month stressed me out not because they were very serious. Actually, I was not expecting all this, all of a sudden. Especially I was over confident that I was doing my work properly and perfectly. That was true, that is true. But perfect professionalism doesn't mean you do perfectly what you do always, it is managing things perfectly when unexpected things happens especially all of a sudden. One lesson I got from this September is that I need to be more matured to handle my personal as well as professional life. But, I'm still happy to get rid off you September.
