There are many things that we come in our daily routine. Some of them are new to us and many are routine practices which have become a part of our life. But to realise how important are each of these things, you should miss them. I had a similar incident today, might sound funny to you. We have cleaning boys at offices who make it a point that before even we start our day our desk and work area are cleaned and all items are in its place. There isn’t much chance to develop an acquaintance with them because they seldom talk to anybody and being an outsourced agency they don’t maintain much friendship with any of our staff. But this particular person (the so called protagonist) who I used to meet every day for almost a year now was a good friend of mine too. It was just a Hello Bye friendship as is the case in any acquaintance, but somehow we used to talk for few minutes everyday on some general topic; may be family, homeland, office, work etc. He used to help me in some of my personal work like cleaning of home, car etc.
Today was just like any other day, but the moment I reached office and noticed that there was a new guy in place of my good friend, it was slightly disturbing for me. It was usually he who would greet me first everyday. But today there was no such thing. The new guy didn’t even know me, so neither didn’t he bother to greet me nor did I. I tried enquiring some of his office mates about, but none could give a convincing answer. All said the same thing... he has been replaced. For a second it gave me a slight jolt. Did something happen to him? has he done something of that sort for his agency to replace him ?....All sort of weird thoughts. But I think I will have to wait for some more time to get a clear answer.
Anyways, the bottom line is that, he too had become a part of my daily office life. I had been used to start my day with a 'hello' from him and I should say I missed it all today. Probably I was missing that comfort zone of starting the day with a small chat with my friend. Now I realise how important he was to me….
Things will move on… we will meet again for sure
Till then….
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