Change = Life :: Life = Change

Life's different. Life's new. Life's changed. 

Ok, I understand I have used synonyms to express the basic feeling, but I'm sure I still have left a lot to be told, which is why what follows is an account of what I am going through these days.

My brief stint at Mumbai ended around 50 days back, and so did all the fun associated with being in Mumbai. The sales stint beckoned, and I waved goodbye to the city, some tears, some smiles, but all in all I had a mixed feeling, a feeling of leaving behind something plus a feeling of curiosity of the future ahead. My 100 days as TL had begun, and I reported at Kanpur.

After the initial 3 weeks of theoretical/practical training, I was alloted the area whose sales I had to increase by my managerial planning and execution. What I didn't know was that the time to follow would require me to stretch all my limits, in the wake of the new rule of the game "Adapt to Survive." Yes, the area that is alloted to me is in a radius of around 150 kms, so sometimes it takes me 6-8 hours while shuttling between towns. The initial days were gruesome, when once the bus on which I was travelling rocked so much that an innocent remark of a fellow passenger that "sometimes the bus topples here" sent shock waves down my spine, and the only voice I could muster to hear was that of my heart beating and praying "Safetly, Oh Lord, Safety" :)

Ever since, I have had numerous cases of exciting yet painful travel, sometimes in a jeep so filled with human bodies that there was hardly any space for air, and some other times half-dangling out of a tempo, because the only place available to sit was the middle seperator. I could claim to have tried all means of transport, the only one remaining would be a crane or a tractor :P Bike rides when shuttling between cities became common, and thanks to the condition of roads in this part of the country, my health was severely affected. But, I haven't given up. Yes, I haven't, despite suggestions that I should relinquish this pursuit. 

The best part of the last month has been visits to religious places in the jhansi area (orcha, chitrakut etc) and I plan to visit all good areas in and around kanpur/jhansi before the end of the stint. Yes, finding good out of the bad is one of the adaptability essentials.

Anyway, its been interesting, the last 50 days, and I am expecting the 50 coming to pass in an equally exciting way, good or bad depends on how I take it :)