MOMENTS...

A Software engineer's life is too planned for comfort. It is difficult for him to do anything without adequate planning and he takes a lot of pride in that. His work, meetings, deadlines, the parties, even the coffee and toilet breaks are all planned. The unfortunate part of this very precise planning is that the focus of attention is more on the time on the watch rather than enjoying the moment.

It either took a momentary collective craziness or a lot of frustration on our part to decide on a long drive to Konark and that too late in the evening while we were sipping some hot coffee in Cafe Coffee Day. The decision may also have been triggered by the deafening mindless noise in the cafe but none of us could deny the fact that it had more to do with the internal turmoil that our monotonous life is facing each day, each moment. Leave aside the work on the weekdays, even the way of spending the weekends has become monotonous. It is usually spent watching movies or hanging out on one of the few cafes in the city or getting our mind & soul drunk in some dim lit bar.

Being a domestic guy, I was a bit hesitant for the trip at first but the urge to do something different was too strong to resist.It finally took a long drive, a crescent moon on the sky and a mildly violent sea to relax our senses and create a moment that could actually be treasured. We spent some time on the sea-shore and most of that time, we were silent. There was no time to discuss our projects, girlfriends (or the lack of it) or personal problems. The sight of the moaning sea, trying to sweep away our feet, was just too beautiful to be missed. All the complaints and problems of our life seemed so trivial and small. I had finally found a MOMENT that I could hold on to and that too after so long.

It's an irony that it takes long intervals of time in our long life for an unforgettable moment to happen. Recollect the first day in your college, the moment when you first saw your childhood crush, the first time your beloved touched you, the day when your best friend said how much he valued you as a friend, the date and time when you got your first job, the day when your father bragged about your success to his friends. The moments that force us to believe on the concept of the TIME MACHINE that would enable us to go back to our past and relive those moments again. The moments that are poor in time period units but very rich in life.

There is one thing in common in all those moments... they came unplanned.They cannot be planned. Like Doll was saying the other day,
"All our unforgettable moments come unplanned and when we are least expecting it."
"The moments may come too far in between but they are worth waiting for."