Change………the only constant.

No, I am not switching my blog again.

Last week I resigned from my job and joined another company. Life was good in my previous company, even though the bank for which I worked was in a big mess due to the US sub-prime losses, but my job was secure since I was part of Technology division and my position was based in Asia where the banks operations are still expanding with huge profits. It was so easy for me to have stayed there and do the work that I did. It was all planned out for me, I just had to be there for another year and I would have got a promotion and a better role, atleast the project director said so. I even won an award for my work. I leave with some mixed feelings.

But inspite of all this I decided to quit and join a new place, where I have to make a fresh start, work hard & once again prove myself. There is no explanation why I went for this change. In the words of one of my friend, “There is barely any hike, there is no change in your position and to top it all you will have to work harder”. I guess theres my reason, not only will I have to work harder but it will be better or so I hope. After 2years or so at the bank, it was like a monotonous job, I knew the business inside out, I knew their system. It was so boring, like reading your own book every day.

Sometimes I wonder if we(humans) are afraid of a simplicity in life, we want things to be complex, to be challenging.

On a completely different note, recently there have been 7 bomb blasts in Bangalore, India. I was discussing this with a senior office colleague who is from a different country and he mentioned that world has changed so much in recent times, its no longer the place it used to be. But IMHO the world has always been like this, only the actors and their methods have changed. World was never a peaceful place, it was never a bed of roses. 20th century saw two world wars, 19th century saw the american civil war and european powers struggle and fight for supremacy in asia and africa, 18th century saw the french revolution and rise of Russian empire. Be it the bloody wars of Genghis Khan in 13th century or Alexander’s great conquest from Europe to Middle East leading to the doors of India and Ashoka the great killing his step-brothers to become king of India and leading a bloody conquest to unite all of India under one rule, world has always been like this. It is hard to distinguish between the good and the bad, just like George W. Bush’s War on Terror, hard to say who is wrong and who is right.

But life goes on. It has a way surviving in worst of conditions and most dagerous of situations. Only to end…..but not before it is the end.