One of those.
A few days more than eight years have passed since the day I secured my first job. My only job. And that's the only thing I have done well at which someone else would acknowledge as such. I have done my best to wipe clean any semblance of normalcy from everything else. I seem to be winning. I am not sure if that is a good thing. I am not a workaholic. It is just that everything else seems be more flawed. In fact, I have hardly ever worked. I just do what fancies me.
I have an elephantine memory for certain things and I am oblivious to some others. Time seems to pass at a different pace as a result. Biology has a clock that runs differently though. You were one of the new kids on the block and now there is a fresh bunch. There were fresh faces earlier too, but now it seems to matter for the first time. All your mentors are disappearing and you have turned into a mentor when you thought you could carry on with your merry freshness forever. Or may be I have just misread things. Stay foolish. Really. I think no one grows up, it is just that others grow up under you, whether you want it that way or not.
I am not a go-getter. I am not a high flyer. I am not many things. I have never intended to be. " 'I' is a very fluid concept right now". It has been so always. There has never been a definition possible. Not even that it is utterly undefinable. An ego's strength varies only in kind. As for degrees, it has just one. It exists, until death do it done.
If I don't write here there's verbiage elsewhere. But one of these days I will write something really simple, true and pleasant :-)
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