My New Addiction

Mornings!! Yeah, they are my latest addiction. Beautiful, cool, gorgeous mornings....

Though I don't get up as early as I would like to, but I do make the most of my time after I get up between 6:30 and 7:00. I walk to the IMDC lawn and place my aasan below a Neem. Then I proceed to do Pranayaam. I had started Pranayaam since I came to Ahmedabad but it was only after a few days that I started going out to this lawn. Lack of smart morning wear was an excuse for not venturing out. Then I went out at 6:30 one day and the morning had such a magical effect on me that there was no looking back. This, plus the fact that there were not many people around, emboldened me to gallavant in my night pyjamas on all my morning sojourns :)

The lawn is huge and I am the lone soul doing my exercises. I enjoy this time thoroughly. A fresh and cool breeze generally keeps me company. (It is, in fact, quite unbelievable how a cool, innocent morning turns into a merciless, scorching noon! )
I do my exercises for half an hour. Then I walk bare-foot on the green carpet. It is such a beautiful feeling that I want mornings to last a lot longer. These days, I carry a book along which a friend has very kindly lended to me. 'The Secret' can be life-changing, if it catches your fancy. More on it in another post.

When I return at about 8 from my morning venture, I feel that I have spent 1 hour quite fruitfully. I feel enriched. On my way back, when I see drawn shutters and think of people sleeping off this golden time, I pity them with the new found disdain of a person who has discovered something precious and to which others are knowingly oblivious. They know not, what they are missing, poor souls.....and I was one amongst them till just a few days back. Thanks to the constant cajoling by Mummy and Papaji, I have rediscovered mornings!

Water, water everywhere....

Water water everywhere, nor any drop to drink....This is how I feel in the campus. Gyaan and intellectuals all around me but I am deprived of enlightenment. What a tragedy! I feel like back-end support. Though I would have loved to make it to the IIM campus on my own, I am glad I am here at all. Just think, I am breathing the same air as some of the finest management gurus! A great saint once said 'Kajal ki kothri me kaiso hi jatan karo, kajal ko daag to laage hi laage' By this logic, will some of the IIM magic rub off onto me?

One month since the ball was kicked off. Exactly one month back, the induction had started. All the students had walked to the old campus in the new PGPX T shirts. Families were invited at the induction and I got to know the wide spectrum of profiles that constituted this batch. Right from a fighter pilot to an MD from AIIMS, an IFS officer to an architect, the rainbow has more than 7 hues.

I had come to IIM with small hopes of my own. Will I get to work with an IIM Prof? Only time will tell.