1st Jan 2010 00:00 AM… it was less than a month I shifted from Chennai to Hyderabad. The whole world was celebrating New Year and I was all alone in Anupam’s House. I bought a half-bottle of Antiquity, drunk alone while watching some New Year performances on TV and Slept. It was totally a different kind of New Year celebration for me and very much unexpected in Hyderabad. The place, I used to come from Chennai on weekends to spend some good time with my friends….

Learn to speak quicker than other known kids of same age group. This followed by ability to recognize letters and numbers. Admission to best school in city. Race to be in top 3 in class ranking. Good academic score with some great achievements in sports and other extracurricular activities. More than 90 percentile in board exams. National level competitive exams. Again a great academic score for a nice job. Appraisals, promotions, salary hike, company switch and many more. Much before you could even pronounce RACE….

Yesterday i was in a party organized by Satyam. It was only for healthcare and life sciences people. So it was not a very chaotic and fish market kind of party. People were invited with their family. But since i am still single, i went with my other single colleagues Prashant and Santosh. Just to let you know i am not a party person. I rarely attend parties and try to avoid them most of the time. This is because i just hate being in a crowd and feel really bored in such formal parties. And this party was not an exception…..

There are many such restrictions that are continuously transforming me from a human to machine. Many of us are in this same situation and feel the same. Some will disagree for sure. They might be lucky enough to be in first category or they are very much used to be like this only. People do adjust themselves according to the circumstances but somewhere in the mind they do realize that they have lost to life. Life is asking them to do something different. Something that we love to do, something we are passionate about but we are continuously doing something else in repetitive manner just like a machine.