What Has Been A Positive Outcome Of The Pandemic?

I think if the pandemic had not happened a lot of us would not have gotten the opportunity to work from home and experience what that looks like. I don’t like to minimize the loss of lives during the pandemic and even businesses that suffered monetary loss but if I’d like to think that something good came from it, that is the fact that a lot of us got the chance to work from home.

Just the fact that working from the comfort of your own home – living room, bedroom, study/home office – is a feeling like no other. You save traveling money , your daily 3–4 cup coffee expense , you’re gonna save a lot. You also save the time you commute to and from work and hose pesky traffic jams. Work from home buys you more family time which improves your relations. If you have pets, you can spend more time with them. You’ll get a relief from those uncomfortable formals. You can be in your boxers or pajamas and work comfortably.

I can even play my music and have a football match or two on during the day and still finish my work. This is something which growing up I never imagined. Even as I started work in my early 20s and even in my 30s, I never thought I would get chance to do that. And then the pandemic hit and here we were. I like it now that I am in a process where I get to work from home.

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What’s Something You Tried Once And Instantly Knew It Wasn’t For You?

Yeah well, I wouldn’t that it isn’t for me but more like I don’t like the culture associated with it in India and that is not for me. Personally I do not have a problem with weed but I just haven’t partaken in it much. In fact very little. I have only smoked weed 3 times in my life.

The first and second time were in Bangalore. The very time was when I was 19 and living in a hostel in Bangalore, as I was studying in a college there. For New Year’s eve the warden had a strange rule; you had to be in by 9 pm as the gates would be locked by then. If it is after 9, then you will have to find other accommodations for the night. This as to avoid late night drinking and people coming in drunk and or fighting. So I ordered some food from a restaurant nearby and brought it to my room. My roommates were at their relative’s places, so I was alone. I had my dinner by 9 and listened to music, waiting for the fireworks.

A couple of guys from Assam who I had made friends with called me to join them as they had sneaked in some weed joints and I smoked some for the first. They also shared some food with me and then by 1 am I went back to my room. A few months later I joined them again for more weed. Then I would have to wait till November, 2007 which was 12 years later. At my then office I had rehearsed with a couple of other guys some rock songs so we could perform on stage for around 200 employees and at the end of the performance, I was on personal high. A colleague asked me if I wanted to split a joint and we went under a tree on the opposite side of the hall and we smoked a joint. I enjoyed it but I am scared of people in this culture here, so I haven’t dipped into it at all.