We are changing for you…

The latest ad from Canara bank has been a real refresher. It is a pleasant change, these days even public sector banks are spending and making something meaningful to retain/attract customers. The ad with lady saying “Square slice” to her Cricket addict husband is what I liked the most among the series of ads in this genre being streamed. The process and implementation part if you see is really sweet and noteworthy. Even the second ad where a south Indian mother in law learns Punjabi to leave her Punjabi “Bahu” surprised, rejoicing in the first meeting, is soothing.
The whole idea goes much beyond the simple words…
If changing ourselves a bit here and there brings smile on the face of people who matter to us…why not do so? Is it so difficult to change ourselves even that much? Is working on this flexibility too much of an burden. Frankly speaking, this should not be the case. We can adapt ourselves and that can go a long way without any major difficulty. A mix of these tiny things can go a long way in to changing our important relationships. Just make it a point to change say four – five things initially for the people who matter to us. The result will be awesome. Just attempt it as if you are doing pilot testing..Life will be better.

I wonder whether it is a sign of some future turbulence or just one of my temporary behavioural fluctuations. For the last few months, I have been changing places frequently. To top it all, the places have been quite typical and I have survived unscratched, Thanks to the training I got during my post graduation, in remotest places covering numerous states all over India. I have liked all these things for some years now. But lately I have realized that I can not sustain this for long. Time is flying like anything. Joined this job in May last year, learnt and unlearnt several things all these months. People used to say that job satisfaction counts and I used to laugh them off. Frankly speaking, The Company in which I am working has been really great till now. But, something…somewhere is missing. I tend to feel insecure at times…shrugging off thoughts immediately. I fear stagnation, want to move on but need complementary resources, which I think is missing. I still have to work out on what could be my next move both professionally and personally. May be things will fall in line and smoothen out in due course of time…and since I have already been thinking on these lines…I am game !

Surviving Christmas…

On Christmas Eve switching on the TV here in this rustic hotel at a mainland UP town surprised me with the caption “Surviving Christmas”. Yes, this was the name of a movie scheduled to be streamed on Star Movies that time. From the morning I wasn’t feeling great, both as it was a holiday with nothing to do on list and I had not seen faces of many people except waiters. Names of actors were struggling for their part on the screen to be displayed…I caught Ben Affleck and an actress whose name I can’t remember right now. It has always been difficult to watch movies on a TV channel for me, thanks to ever increasing space and time given for promotional advertisements. For a hardcore movie buff like me it feels really bad and many a times it creates funny sequences. It seems that movie has been sandwiched between multilayered advertisements. But yeah Economics is economics …who else can better understand this than me after having a tryst with this subject for the past seven years. Movie started with Ben (Hero) proposing her GF for a first class Fiji trip on Christmas. But, she refused citing the reasons that Christmas was a family festival and she got to celebrate it with her family .Surprisingly, she also advised poor Ben to do the same with his family. But had the hero got a family back home to celebrate …where was the reason to go to Fiji dude…Now on the Christmas eve he was all alone deserted by her GF thinking what to do. One of his colleagues advised him to go to the best place he enjoyed in his life till then and refresh the memories. He went to his childhood home which was now inhabited by a middle class family consisting of a father ,mom, son and a daughter…see chhota parivar khushiyan apar….but happiness was limited here as they were surviving on a tight budget for their day to day needs.
Nevertheless, he bargained with the family to let him celebrate Christmas with it for a dont know why $250,000 hehehe…apne yehan koi free mein bhi nahi aata…anyways…so the day cocluded with action packed moments, romantic twists n turns, awkward situations blah blah…. And yeah Ben got a companion for lifetime…No prize for guesses.
And this ended my christmas on a happy note..i must say the movie was really good and refreshing.
PS – Watching this movie once won’t be a bad idea…moreover I ‘m here to reinsure ;-)