Entry #1 - Hardship of Bhanu’s life
Bhanu has been facing the hardship of life and getting driven by destiny since last couple of years. Everything that he was doing has not been going well. Nothing was falling in line for him. It has been a feeling of swimming upstream with bit faster flow. Every front of his life has, like, decided to test his patience and caliber and capacity of perseverance.
All his past experiences of life are not giving any solid approach to tackle these familiar looking challenges.
In the past, Bhanu had always faced and tackled problems and challenges from front. A sense of motivation had always been helping to sail him across the troubled water. His friends and family had also tagged him as problem solver.
Bhanu himself had always been high in self belief and self confidence. Something gets his attention, had been destined to get to its target.
Be it his professional life or a social or personal life, Bhanu had solved many many problems. Along the journey he had gone through many crusts & peaks to come across with flying colors at the end.
Last 2-3 years has been not the same for Bhanu. He is not able to crack down his own inhibitions to start with. Is it the age and tiredness of overly active responses from his side or its mere the matter of some rough patches of his life, where nothing working well for him.
His boss is not so happy with him. His colleagues are non cooperative, juniors are not aligning. His kids are showing cold shouldered behaviour towards him, wife is fully ignoring him. Extended family and relatives showing symptoms of displeasure, as if he is not addressing their expectations. Friends are also not around to give him the comfort of being around for him. In totality, Bhanu has been completely sidelined and is struggling to come back and survive in ladt couple of years.
Majorly, Bhanu himself is responsible for this state. By virtue he is an extrovert person but he had turned himself into a completely introvert character. Cutting diwn his social interaction, taken over by laziness and deferring attitude in recent years.
Few years back, he was in a clear leading position and was ahead of the time by few years. But in last few years, he is loosing that advantage and heading towards an giving up mindset. He is not finding a headway and firm control to govern his own self.
He still believes that he can gain his control of life with stronger hold. Trying small small foundational things with no real indication of their broader impact individually. But it is his deep rooted confidence that these all will reap much higher long term returns, just need good patience for some time to hold on his faith.
Today when Bhanu woke up from his good night sleep, he got a call from PMO and was told that PM himself wanted to talk to him.
Looks like PM want to invite him to work with his office and need his services towards his ambitious target of developed nation. This was indicated by the person wo called him.
Is it a truth or just a dream, an early morning dream which he is still visualising. He is looking everything around him and walking across his house to ensure that it is not merely a dream.
While he was still waiting for next call from PMO and eager to hear PM, he is curiously examining his surroundings. Suddenly, bell rings on his cell. The call from PMO is displayed in his screen and picks up the phone. A lady voice on the other end sounds familier. Is it her PMO Lead from office? And she is apologising for off hour call and saying that she had sent an email which need his action before midnight. Bhanu tells her that he will look into this. Then he looks at his wall clock in the room, which was showing 22:30 as time. Bhanu looks at his mobile clock once again and trying to understand whats going on. Then he realized that, he was in a deep dream. In reality current day is still not over. He actually went for a quick nap around 6:00 PM, and got up just now.
He was utterly disappointed and wishing in his thoughts for conversion of that beautiful dream into some sort of reality one day. Remembering and inviting every god and goddesses to grant him the wish.
His struggle continues, but hopes had started to revive his faith and belief towards a bright future. He is starting to retake the control of his life immediately with self prioritisation over others.
Footnote:
With best wishes for Bhanu’s resurgence in his life, Dee Mount would like to give a future looking full stop to this episode of short stories here.
(Dee Mount, at myplace, on 12th Mar, 2024)
