The Different Day

It's about today and it seems like a different day in a different way.

It's the day after Diwali when you wake up tired. And from today only your shift times change to the morning ones since your colleague has resigned.

So it's me and me alone in the duty room that once echoed with so much conversations. 

Still there hours left for the shift to get over and have no inkling left as to how to spend these hours.

Had food and tea and water and done all things I knew. Taken rounds several times and here I sit thinking how life changes in a day.

Also it's Solar eclipse today and the weather is a little cold with the crackers contributing to the smog.

Had immense conversations over the past one year with my colleague almost a decade younger to me. Talked about so many things right from the childhood onwards. Everyday I had so much to say. As if reciting the journey of my life to gain a defining perspective so that I could move forward in life with a clearer and fresh perspective.

Also narrated so many things about the way i perceived life at different stages to understand the kind of correction or transformation that needed to be to evolve and rise.

It was neither trauma dumping nor  it was a casual way of communication. I dug my soul to be able to find the truth of my soul purpose and to understand how much I was aligned or deviated from it. Also to understand the purpose of the pain I felt at times when I just had moments of lack of faith and tonnes of self doubt.

As I sit in silence I realise that it's a long day and it's different.