Since past one year, I was starving for something good to happen. One major event, which I was very much desperate to let happen, is gouri getting job. I was really worried about jobless days passing one after other for her. People use to say her, it won’t be enough difficult to find job in IT industry as your brother is anyway working in IT company. He will be having enough contacts/colleagues/friends to get an opportunity. In a way, I too felt it right.
But last year, it was a kind-of hard core recession for freshers. No openings at all. During my time of job search, after completing engineering, it wasn’t too hard for me to get job. So I had never tasted the desperateness to find/get a job. When I started the task of looking fresher openings for gouri, I started to taste it. There is no single person I know in my life, to whom I haven’t asked a favor/help to get gouri placed! I tried literally with everybody, every single person I know. Before making up this sentence, I have recollected very hard, whether there is somebody who I know & haven’t asked for this favor. I found NONE. At least every person, i know use to know that i am struggling hard for fresher openings for gouri. What I want to justify here is that, I was so desperate & needy for gouri to get job that I haven’t left anybody. In fact, even if I didn’t know somebody but found out that person is having potential for getting an opportunity then I use to make that person to know me. Then immediate next day I use to forward resume!
Gouri not getting job had made life dull & sad. Before planning each and every huge decision, all things use to boil down to postponing them until gouri gets job. I use to sit & wonder for hours like when that time will come. I was sure that when that time comes I’ll be pretty much happy. I’ll be happy infinite times, jumping all around! But even after trying so hard, nothing was happening. There was no sign at all about her job opportunity.
As most of you already know, last week finally after 15 long & hard months, gouri got break through into a company called “continental”. Although it is just one year based contract job, but indeed it was something what I was waiting for so long. All these days, I had waited for this happy day to come. To tell you honestly, when finally I got to know the news that she got a job, I wasn’t happy as I had expected earlier. It was really strange! So what is this? I started to think. My ideal real happiness was to finally hear this news & to know that gouri too has job like me. I was happy indeed, but not like jumping and all which I had imagined & dreamt off.
Then slowly I realized that real happiness is not in just hearing the great news of achievement, which we will be waiting for so long desperately. But instead the real happiness lies in the path of achieving it. For example, when you are too much excited about going to some place/destination. Journey will be more beautiful than destination. May be because, during journey you'll be imagining, thinking a lot, hoping a lot about what you have heard about the destination. So this thinking,hoping, imagining makes the journey much more beautiful than just reaching the destination.
To clarify and on the similar lines, if I look back all those people to whom I had forwarded resume of gouri & asked to refer or try get an opportunity, those people during that time showing concern & trying to help by forwarding resume use to make me ‘happy’. It use to give me a little hope. Indeed if I summon all those small-small moments (when somebody referred or emailed an opening & put some hope in me during that time) then it will sum up to infinite happiness and will of course be more than the happiness of just hearing that she finally got placed.
So I would like to take an opportunity to thank all those who made this journey to fill with small-small happy moments which collectively today I’m realizing as the “real happiness” and I will miss those moments from now on. You know I also need to mention that among all, few did take extra mile to help in getting gouri job. That was really appreciable and so kind of them. I’ll never-ever forget all those things which you people did during such a hard time. Hats off. Rest few didn’t go extra mile but they sincerely tried to help. Big thank you for them too. Rest few didn’t had time but just kept telling they are trying & I would like to thank them too. Few others just use to ask, did gouri got job. Thanks for them too for remembering & asking each time when we use to meet. Finally thanks to all who made this whole journey, a fun filled roller-costar, which will be memorable. Even you people might forget what you did, but I’ll never ever forget.
To conclude, I’m just happy now to know that finally gouri got a job. She is becoming independent, self-capable and I’m really proud of her. It is just beginning of learning A,B,C. Still lot more to go. She should complete 26 alphabets, then should start forming words out of it, then should start making sentences then should start writing paragraphs then should start writing essays then finally poetry, literature etc. Uffff.. Lot lot more to go. But i'm happy now that she begin with A, B & C now. :P
And this all credits goes to the people who are reading this blog, coz as I said, there is no person whom I know & doesn’t know about my struggle for sister’s job :) Thank you all once again.
