Grumpy love

 - Shashwat

It's another agonizing monday morning. I woke up at 6 am as my alarm beeped loudly. I got up, made my bed and got ready to go for jogging. As I stepped out of my block and made my way towards our common garden, my neighbor Suresh uncle  caught up with me. And as usual he started talking about politics, news and all the things that I want to avoid in the morning. I wasn't taking part in conversation, but my lack of enthusiasm in our conversation didn't stop him. So, I used my ultimate weapon, I plugged in my earphones and quickened my pace. I felt guilty doing something like that, but I was myself feeling burned out that I had no energy to listen anything that could worsen my mood. If I needed anything on this Monday morning, then it's abundance of positive energy so that I could face my new grumpy boss.  This was the last thing, I want to think about but nothing seemed to help. Usually jogging calm me down and I feel recharged .But that wasn’t helping today.

Anyway once I was done with jogging, I took a quick shower and got ready for office. I didn't have energy to prepare breakfast, so I decided to grab breakfast on the way. I didn't even cared to clean my bike today, just left. I made a stop to have breakfast. 

When I finally reached office, my parking spot was already occupied. Great!!! It didn't seem like the day was  gonna get any better. I parked my bike at an empty parking space few blocks down. When I entered the office, the atmosphere wasn't pleasing, every other person was in rush. As I reached Marketing department, scene there was no different than other departments. As soon as I settled down at my desk, I went through the emails and made a to- do list, and started to work. We have a meeting of our department in an hour, where I had to present the marketing strategy of my team. Our company had planned to launch new  products . As a marketing team we have to be prepared with marketing strategy before hand.

With the new grumpy boss in the office, environment here had changed drastically. Everyone seems drained of energy lately. But do we had any other option!! 

As I finished presenting marketing strategy of my team, team leader Ankur was pleased with my presentation. And now after ten minutes I had to present these ideas to that devil. Not that I'm scared of him but I'm irritated with his arrogant attitude. Presentation went a bit smoothly than I had imagined. Not that there weren't any troubles, but with the support of my team , I got through that somehow. May be I was being too pessimistic since the morning . After the presentation I head over to canteen to have lunch . But menu of today's lunch disappointed me. So I decided to treat myself a good meal as the beginning of the day was not so good, I totally deserve good meal to lighten my mood. I decided to go to my favorite place to have authentic Gujarati thali, which is 15 mins ride from my office. As I hit the road, scorching sun made me question my decision, but I wasn't gonna have lunch at canteen anyway. I arrived at the restaurant and the aroma of food hit my nostrils making me impatient. I ordered the food and was waiting for my food to arrive.

While I was waiting for my food , one girl sitting across the table caught my attention. Head down on the table, her eyes tired seeking rest, messy hair and one big yellow suitcase accompanying her. Apparently I'm not the only one who had faced bad monday morning. As I was observing her, she got a call and she received call with annoying look on her face but after few minutes of talk, her face sparkled with joy, all the tiredness gone somehow. And I was all curious what could have caused that drastic change. Now as the call ended, she was sitting upright . She caught me staring at her and I averted my gaze realizing may be I made her feel uncomfortable. I don’t know why but I had that strange feeling, I wanted to help that girl ease her stress. I wanted to help her if she was facing any problem, may be because I was also caught up with the problems recently and I desperately wanted someone to help me. Not that I’m gonna ask for help or let others see that I’m struggling!!!!

After few minutes my food was there and I was lost in savoring every bite. As I was done with my meal,I made my way to counter to pay the bill, my attention wandered off to that girl and she was leaving in cab. I made the payment and left for office.

To be continued.....