Your Friendly Philosopher & Guide

I remember a story when an old man was busy repairing the bridge after he crossed over. An onlooker asked him, why was he wasting his time on something he has already used. And the old man said – “I want to repair this bridge to make life easy for the generation to come.” I would love to be like that old man, where in my blogs can help those sincere seekers who go through similar experiences in life before achieving something.

A lot of people tell me that they admire my guts to have quit my 9-5 job from a top IT firm after 8 years of experience. And this happened one fine morning. I don’t think it was anything to do with my ‘guts.’ It was just an extension of the ‘trust’ that I had on God or almighty.

I remember the day when my boss took me into a cabin, and asked me to rethink about my decision of quitting without another job on hand. He said think about your wife and children. I listened to him patiently as I was hiding my right hand under the table. There wasn’t anything in my right hand. I had just closed my fist, and kept my middle finger up!

I resigned on August 24th 2004, and my second daughter was born on August 30th. I was serving my notice period then. I didn’t share the news to anyone at office – as I never wanted those backstabbing corporate hypocrites to come and congratulate me with their fake smiles.

All those astrologers whom I helped putting my role at stake rebelled against me – thinking the new person, who took over, was the messiah who has come only to save their asses. That was the time when I realized that any person – no matter whether he is a spiritual person or an astrologer or a Godman – behaves the same in a given situation. After all they are just mere human beings.

Then there was a meeting with the Vice President. He gave me a valuable advice. “Kennedi somewhere you need to learn to take people along with you.” I think he wanted to tell me that – be a good team member and don’t try to be a leader. I continued to hide my right hand under the table.

I never believed in savings, and still don’t believe in it. My bank balance was Rs 35, personal loan was 1.30 lakhs, no insurance, no assets, no houses, and on top of that – no salary that month. On enquiry I came to know that the last salary will come after 2 months, and the PF amount of 1.3 lakhs will come after 90 working days. The difficult time had already started…….

On the other side of life – I was left with one wife, 2 beautiful daughters, and the ‘trust’ I had God – that he won’t let me down….

To be continued….