Life comes a full circle - Is it worth making lists of things to do?

Today, October 17, 2008.

As I have my dinner at "Narayan Sarovar", I am transported back 8 years - when I had my first meal here along with Ajay, Shailesh and Baptu - to the times when I was a lost kid wondering what to do next in life, back to the times when incoming in mobiles was chargeable, back to the times when I used to think that I will be happy with a 30,000 per month job, back to the times when we had the time to laugh on silly things and not worry about a thing in the world.

Are there any changes between now and then? Yes, there are. The meal is now Rs 50 instead of Rs 30 then, Now I stay in my own house (I was in a rented house then), I am married for 4 years now, Working as a Regional Manager supervising operations at 10 locations across 3 states (I was a B.Com graduate then wondering what to do next), I weigh 90 Kg now (At that time, I was 73 Kg), The Wold Trade Centre is no longer there, India was not N-abled then, and Bill Clinton was the president of USA and I have seen the rise and the fall of Sensex.

Life indeed has come a full circle. It must be some kind of divine conspiracy, a cosmic intervention which has bought me back to the place from where I had started the journey on this road of a career in the streets of high finance. How else will you explain the fact that I am eating at the same place where I was eating 8 years ago?

The next Question is Why?
I have read somewhere that some kinds of Fish travel thousands of miles to the place of their birth to lay their eggs... In mu case, I cannot lay eggs due to biological reasons, so there must be some other purpose which the almighty must have on his mind to bring me here. Now what purpose can that be? Does it mean the start of a new chapter in my life? Is it the time for some profound change in the social / economic / political environment that I stay in? Will this change, if and when it happens, be a subtle, blink and you will miss change or will it be an in your face, Big Bang kind of change which will lead to new interplanetary positions, gravitational pulls and pushes?

I frankly do not know...Looking forward to all the changes as and when they happen. It will be interesting to see what happens next.

Saurabh Maheshwari