Embracing change...

Embracing change is easy. It is. Not as bad it feels as it sounds. When we are asked to adjust or replace something, we panic. We fear change. Immediately, we start thinking about How? Why? When? What if? All these questions are obvious and unavoidable.

We have a lunch group that contains few very beautiful and distinct souls! None of us are from the same project and hence all of us sit at different locations (in terms of desks and floors). Out of five, one went on maternity leave, one left the organisation, and now we are left with three of us. We have always eaten food at leisure. No hurry, no rush. Few rules we always followed - No eating at desk, No eating without heating, No skipping breakfast and newspaper, and go to canteen if you are bored. They say, 'Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince.' So what if we didn't have that kind of king-prince food, but surely we enjoyed the time-in-canteen as a king or a prince until one day..... 

there was a change in the company's policy. Because of the new policy, we had to let go our 'lunch at leisure' policy... Now, the time spent at canteen is not a part of our work hours. Any shortfall in the daily hours results in a half-day leave. So, the week when you have to leave early, you really have to be very calculative before you embark your footprints outside the barrier gates!

The routine that seemed non-adjustable, suddenly found a fluid layout! Everything got customized. Adjustments became easy. Replacements were accommodated. 

• The time-out became out-time
• The mornings that began with breakfast-in-canteen were now managed with a glass of milk at home. 
• The question 'how-can-one-eat-at-desk' automatically found an answer
• The granite table in canteen is replicated by moving keyboard and mouse on desk
• The lunch that was savored hot started tasting very-very delicious at room temperature 
• The four course meal was adjusted to two course (or was eaten at two different intervals!)

All the above adjustments, which once sounded difficult, were embraced easily. Ever wondered, why?  Two primary reasons - the external change was inevitable and the change that occurred was not informed. When these adjustment and replacement occur naturally or without you being told about it, it becomes very easy to adapt. You may not even know and when the things around you would have changed. It's not important to list down the pros and cons of a change. Neither it's needed to plan your change. Some changes in your life are not equivalent to moving a house where you need to sit with a paper and pen! Neither it requires a to-do list. Few tasks are best completed when unplanned! Such changes when left naturally are adapted quickly. Unconsciously, you start responding them in affirmative. 

Today, as I write this blog, I realize that it's so many days I have not eaten food with my lunch group. I have adapted the change to eat-at-desk so easily that I do not even wait for their ping on the messenger! The day never used to end if I would have not met my friend (who now sits on a different floor). Now, weeks pass without seeing each other! We manage our regular talks on messenger and that too very limited. 

Your thoughts are like water! They will take up a shape based on the circumstances. The only problem is you don't open the lid of the existing container to allow the water to flow! Change will come and it has to be embraced happily.

I am such a person who believes in closing the lid so tightly that not a single drop of water should spill! But then when the force increases, the lid automatically opens and the water makes its own way! Not every adjustment has to be thought in depth. Just do it!

I am missing my lunch group a lot! Hoping to adjust my routine in such a way that I continue to eat-at-desk and eat-at-canteen! Of course not simultaneously :)