Good Bye ST-Ericsson

For everything that has a beginning, there's an end. (In Matrix Revolutions, this is Oracle's dialogue, not mine :P). Well, finally the end day has come, where I have to say Good bye to ST-Ericsson. I was sure, that one or the other time, this day will come, but i never imagined, how this day would be! After 3 year 5 months here today I’m spending my last day at ST-Ericsson.

Journey in STE was a incredible. After staying 22 years in home, I had left my home and had come to Bangalore to join STE after completing my engineering. Since then STE had become like my home and not the one where I use to stay! This journey I will cherish for all my lifetime as this was my career’s first job opportunity and my first exposure to the professional world.

When first joined STE it was full of strangers but then after spending each day by day with them, quickly those same strangers turned into people who are like family members, such a kind and generous people to work and spend time with. All these people play a very special role in the moments spent in STE. There are so many memorable moments spent in this joyful place, be it the moments at lunch table in cafeteria or the time spent in CCD or the heavy moments in those meeting rooms or the journey in the company bus or outings at golden palms or technical discussions even in rest room ;-) so many and the list just goes on. So many memorable moments which are literally hard to list. I'm going to MISS all of these a lot. Till today I use to live in these moments, but from now on, these will become just a memory to remember in future! It’s not just happy moments which are memorable but also the sad ones. No matter whether it was happy or sad, STE was always at my side, supporting in all ways. I am really thankful to STE.

Hmmm...I hope everyone agree that everybody has their own role to play in certain atmosphere they dwell, with their own unique essence. I usually wonder a lot, lot and lots that, Will STE be the same even after I leave? How it will continue without me? I mean, my essence in cubicle atmosphere, my essence in friend circle's, my essence in team, my essence in modules which i work on, basically I mean, 'my own unique essence' in ste atmosphere. Will that be missed by any one after I leave? Does it make any difference? Will they adjust and move on? I know it’s stupid and silly of me to think like this, but I was so much genuinely into STE environment that it always triggers me this question. How everything will continue the same without me?!!! And finally I realized the answer for this question whose result is this blog ;-)

Professional carrier is like a train (btw, I love trains). Engine is the company which drives so many teams which are bogies of train. So ours is STE train with so many bogies. The STE engine keeps on driving the bogies to an endless journey with in-between railway station stops. Few people wish to end their journey when their stop comes and walk out of this train and few others take ticket and enter into this train. The cycle goes on.

In my long journey on ste train, I have seen many people getting down at their stop and several other getting tickets into our train (Btw, I provided few tickets). I even moved across several bogies. Key fact is that I have witnessed few passengers in this train without whom i imagined the bogie might not continue to function! I thought these selected passengers are so critical to their respective bogie that it will not function without them. But the truth is, when their stop came, even those critical passengers left the train leaving bogie unstable. But that didn't stop train or the bogie to function. Instead few other fellow passengers took critical role and continued the bogie and made ste train as a non-stop one.

So coming back to what I was wondering, will everything continue the same without me? Will somebody miss my essence? The answer is 'a big fat NO'. Let me explain how I realized this:-

Personally I had never imagined my future life without my parents in it, at every future moment I use to think, be it my marriage or my first car or any silly stupid thing, I also dreamt or think about my parents standing beside me. Never imagined life without them, but hard core real truth is, it really doesn't matter! Some infinite things come in front and we try to forget and move on with lives! That’s the natural way of how things work!

So my stop came and I am getting down from ste train thus ending my journey here (although i got ticket in another train to continue professional carrier journey :P) but the truth is somebody else will definitely replace me in ste train in all aspects. Although it may not be a single person, but multiples. Somebody new will come at my cubicle, replacing atmosphere over there according to their type, somebody else joins friend circle or friend circle gets modified such that my essence is replaced. My work and responsibility will be taken over by somebody else, thus replacing my essence and so on and so forth. Everything gets adjusted or will be modified accordingly or will be replaced in such a way so as to fill the hole created by me, but for sure, everything will be functioning SAME & trust me, very soon everything will be replaced by something else or somebody else and the journey MOVES on even without me, not a big deal at all.

Finally what I want to conclude over here is, no matter how quickly I get forgotten from ste train, but the journey spent in ste made me what I am now and will remain in my thoughts for life time. It will continue to remind me of the beautiful moments spent with gracious and kind people whom I met over here. Love you all @ STE. THANK YOU & GOOD BYE STE. I WISH ALL THE VERY BEST FOR THE FUTURE :)

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