• Published : 24 Mar, 2022
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                                          The day begins, the sky is getting painted with several shades of yellow, red and orange. In one room the alarm rings. Rubbing her eyes, with the close eyelids, she stops the alarm and tries to break the bondage with the sleep. Sliding through the blanket, she made her way to look through the window curtain, which is just next to her bed. Realising that, the sun is still peeping out, she wishes to gain some more sleep.
                                           Finally, after 15 minutes with the great effort she achieves victory to come out of the blanket. She says “Shree Ganeshay Namah!!” and taking the deep breath greets herself "Good Morning" and gets up. She finishes her bath thinking to have bread and butter along with the tea. When she moves towards the kitchen, she realises that she forgot to boil the milk last night due to which the milk got upset on her. She thinks with the sad face, “Morning without the tea, is like the balloon without the air”. But then suddenly she snaps her fingers and give some sweet (Sugar) to the milk. Like this the milk gets convinced to throw the anger to become “Khoya”.
                                           She happily finishes the “Khoya” and starts booking the cab to the office, but all in vain. No cab’s available, the one that is booked, gets cancelled. She thinks, “Uff!!! The Day !!”. Finally, she boards the auto to continue the day. Her eyes become wide open, and she utters” Oh my GOD!! Such a horrible traffic jam. No wonder why the cab bookings were getting cancelled”. But as it's an auto, it took up the route guided by the short-cuts, and she reach her destination almost on time.
                                           As soon as she enters the office hot news arrives, that as a TL she must choose one employee who can be fired. It is the side effect of the cost cutting. Being an emotional human, she murmurs "Fire Someone?? It seems like I must throw bomb on someone whose work I dislike. How sad!!". She knew one team member, who is not interested in development and so under-performing. But from past few weeks she discovers that he is good in management stuff. Also, she doesn’t want to fire him as he just got married and that won't be good for him. She thinks of one colleague who has the need of a resource that can guide his small team acting as a Team Lead, as the cost cutting has eaten their lead as well. After discussing with the manager, she asks her employee to raise all the needed request so that he can easily shift in the new role. That’s how she cleverly saved herself from becoming the culprit of firing someone.
                                           After the lunch when she is sipping her green tea, the roller coaster of issues, rains on her team. She starts tracking all the issues that need to be tackle and fix as soon as possible. In the meanwhile, they encounter the network issue, when she smiles and tells her team "When problems come, they come in pairs”. She took this downtime in a positive way and started discussing how the team should solve all the priority issues. Meanwhile the ghost issue (network problem) gets disappear and all the team member dedicatedly starts to show their talent in solving the issues.
                                           The storm of issues ends nearly around 10:00 PM. She is thinking to book the cab for home. In the interim, she realises that there is nothing at home that she can cook for dinner. When she is trapped in her own thinking one of her colleagues come and offers her the drop. Listening to this she quickly gets relief from cab booking task and accepts the lift. When they are on the way, the colleague appreciates the effort made by her for solving the issues. He even admits that her team really likes her and respect her the way she is and the way she understands the issue.
                                           When your ears, mind and heart is enjoying the soothing word of appreciation, the time flies and very soon her stop arrives, and she gets down. She enters the house, makes herself comfortable and after relaxing for a while she picks her phone to order the food.
                                           She finishes the yummy dinner and all other remaining chores, and swiftly enters inside her favourite blanket. While relaxing she thinks “The day that started with struggle ended with smile”. Thinking this she smiles and sleeps saying, “My Day!!”.

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Rageesha

Joined: 27 Feb, 2022 | Location: Bangalore, India

I am a day dreamer. Loves poems. Intermittent reader. Try to write something in my free time. Professionally I am a software engineer....

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