The characters in this blog are fictitious and written just for fun after getting the inspiration by watching the movie “Life of PI”
Life of P(EM)I………..
When I was a small baby even my mom used to sing lullaby.
We had a big compound with a pond in it. We had tulasi in front of our house, a big one. We had parrots, Sparrows coming to our house as guests.
It was me and my siblings playing around in the house without any tension in life. Life was fun.
Once one of my siblings wanted to go to circus but he was scared to ask dad the money. So he borrowed money from his friend because he was very desperate to somehow go to the circus. Yeah I understand the feeling of desperateness while as a kid. (I don’t think it is changed much, even now before finalising the car I used to think of cars only day & night). When he returned after having a great fun of watching the circus with borrowed money, he had to forget the entire fun after returning home. His friend who gave money to him got caught and his dad spoke to my dad and that’s it…………..(you may fill up the gap).
Yes as the days passed by, we grew. We had to earn. So we came to the City Of Opportunities – The Bruhat Bengalooru (Bangalore in shortJ).
Weather was amazing; city is huge (compared to my native – mysore). Lot of option to eat with great number of food chains. Lot of attractions.
When my family was busy settling in the new city, I went in search of a job. (My job searching is an awesome story to tell. That would be in my next blog).
Finally got a job also, it was all fun. I worked hard because of the principals put in my mind by my family that there is no alternate to hard work.
As I said, Bangalore is a city of great opportunities & LOT OF ATTRACTIONS TOO. I started to feel greedy. I too wanted to have my own house to start with………..
INTERVAL………………………………………………………………………………………
A house in Bangalore – is a dream and possibility of lots. It is dream if you cant afford, it is possible if you can afford(afford here means the relevant documents to get loan approval J)………..
Found a house, furnished the document, did house warming ceremony, etc, etc.
Yes I also own a house. Yes I also own a house. Yes I also own a house. Yes I also own a house. Yes I also own a house. YES I ALSO HAVE AN EMI TO PAY. Yes I also own a house. Yes I also own a house. Yes I also own a house. Yes I also own a house. ………………………………
My EMI days started. Guys your relationship with EMI or your stability factor with EMI is more than your stability factor with your company or sometimes life partner ;-). You will end up having atleast 3 years long term relationship with the EMI. I think banks should also honour its customers (so funny these banks are. I took money (loan) from them and still I am their customerJ). Like companies do for its employees, honouring them when they complete 3 years in the system, 5 years, 10 years, etc………..
Life started with ME & my EMI together in the same boat (I mean same salaried account from where I take money and my banker takes money for EMI). My EMI started eating all my luxuries one by one. It ate my one weekends visit to mall (earlier it was 4 visits not it is 3 visits). It ate my plan of buying a new upgraded version of mobile. It ate my 2 new dresses from either “W” or “U”. It ate my 1/4th portion of my food (instead of ordering pizzas 4 times a month, I had to restrict to 3 times). I used to have some money for spending lavishly with my friends & it started taking share from that money too. There came a day it threw me out of my luxury house to a small house to sustain the extra burden of rent & EMI together.
We common people also compromise a lot to become a valuable customer of Banks.
There came a big tide (RECESSION). I had to survive somehow, because I am scared of EMI. Because EMI is there - I had to earn money, I stayed back in the company, I worked even more hard to retain my job, however bad my manager was I learned to handle him, I never thought of taking sabbatical. I would not have achieved whatever I am today if EMI was not there.
One day in my sail with EMI, I encountered with a great company which was so good for employee related policies. It looked very good (grass in their campus was too green compared to grass in my campus). I was so happy. I just jumped to that company. DAY-ONE in that company was great. Got lot of luxuries. Felt it can easily take care of ME & my EMI. After my onboarding formalities, I was introduced to the team where I would be working. I found some friends to understand my feelings. Later on after completing few months I realised that the employees of the company have lot of bank balance not only because they are paid heavy but mainly because they never got the opportunity to have weekends, work life balance. I encountered with lot of employees either becoming skinny for not having proper lunch or heavy because of irregular lunch or lot of issues like BP, Diabetes, etc at the early age because of over stress. Overnight (I am exaggerating here only to resemble to the movie) sorry not overnight but over thinking of lots of nights, changed or moved back to my old company.
So my journey with my EMI on the same boat continued. I started accepting this only as LIFE. I started to have my own kinds of fun by investing time in things which I CAN DO than which I WISHED TO DO. I started finding happiness in small things. I started settling in my company than moving out.
One day I realised that I can still look at stars in the sky / hope of paying some amount to my EMI to get rid of. I started chasing closing of PF account from my earlier company. The procedure all looked so colourful, so promising & easy. I started looking my same happy family living in big house with all the luxury out of this idea of PF amount which I was about to get. I waited 1 year, I waited 2 years then one day I got a good news that the PF closure cheque is sent to my earlier bank. I thought “Bhagavan jo bhi detha hai, chappar paad ke detha hai” (like lots of fishes rushing towards the tiger). When I went to the bank to collect the cheque there I realised the check-mate to me. The account number mentioned in the mail is wrong against my actual account number. So I will not get the money. The entire fun of seeing great starts in the night changed overnight to heavy cloud that I can’t even see the moon.
I gave up, continued with same spirit of no spirit with ME & my EMI in the boat.
But after all these struggles, I am happy that I am still sailing even when I encountered lot of tides in the journey. I am able to still sail because I had the fear of EMI. If EMI was not there then I would have taken some drastic steps long back. If I were lucky I would have survived else collapsed. So I had to truly thank EMI atleast during this journey.
I am now again a confident individual that you put me into any sea I can survive. Because I am skilled mariner. I can survive any kind of TIDE until and unless it is a Tsunami J……….
