I AM GETTING BORED!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was what I told my self sitting on my system at the office. Well, before you get any ideas, I am a kind of a person who likes to talk and observe people a lot. But since the day we shifted to this new building, it seems as if a free bird like me has been put into a pinjara. Sitting just in front of my Team Leader (Just imagine!) and with her peeping eyes always on me, I am not able to talk at my leisure, nor am I able to move from my seat! Anyways, I am also not a person to be suppressed so easily! I will keep revolting in my own way! After all preserving my independence is my own duty and I can’t allow anyone to just take me or my independence for granted.

For my entire life, I have never liked it if anyone tried to keep me in captivity. (Here I mean the emotional and not the physical captivity). Well, you guessed it right; I got a whole lot of punishment in the school for choosing to talk to my friends when the poor teacher was shouting on the top of his or her voice to convey something important to the class. But, I never changed! When I entered the college, my hopes for a free and better life increased and the college atmosphere also did a lot to keep these hopes alive. But, the human heart is never satisfied and is always looking for something or the other to wish for.

Now, my next wish was to get freed from the financial constraints. In addition, I also dreamt of standing on my own feet and making a mark for myself in the society! Don’t smile, didn’t you all thought about the same thing before joining a job? So, here I was looking for a job that would give me a good life and by good I mean, a better and independent life! I took it for granted that getting a good job would also bring along more and more opportunities to live life more fully! More chances to meet up with friends, more time to spend with the family, more time to watch SRK movies, to read interesting books! Wow, life seemed to be so beautiful!

But! Afsoos! All my dreams were shattered just like an injured bird that falls from a high branch of the tree, trying to fly higher in the sky. The job meant getting ready in the morning, going to the office, sitting on the seat allotted and working there till 6 in the evening and then heading back home! By the time, you reach home, it is already 7 or 8 and everyone at home is getting ready for the dinner and after the dinner, you are left with only few hours to do what you like the best. And before you even realize, it is time to hit the bed for a goodnight sleep, so that you can get ready for the next day!

Well, is this what we always wished for? This 9-6 job, which has become a major part of our life? No socialism, no talking to friends, no family get together! And no leisure activities! If this is called making a mark in the society, then I am afraid that I have had enough of this making a mark thing! I would like to live a life which runs according to my wishes and not what the world wishes for me!