The changing face of dating

These are the days of love comes, love goes.
At tinder speed.

It is not love as they say.
It is having fun.
Living the life.

Drinks today, followed by chatting  sessions all night,
Few days (or may be not even that) and then we slide into casual sex.
And then when we get bored, we are out of it.
Both sexes are comfortable with this scene.

Off late, it makes me wonder if I come from a different generation.
(I know I am knocking on my thirty but still..)
All one wanted was a companion, not an ever changing sex partner
Does this change make one difficult to connect with oneself?
Am I different person every day for every date?

I am all for casual flirting but this is different.
It is the phase when your ego needs you to be seen with a prettier/handsomer face often.
It is the phase when knocking down more chicks/guys is the counter that makes you cool/cool-er.
It is the phase where dinner and movie dates have to be checked in.

Have the good old dating and 'casanova' days gone?
Has it all become so facetious and so glib?

Acknowledging the workaholic

I was a decent student in school.

Did my work, did fine in classroom, tests, well groomed and well behaved.

No complaints that went home..so yes, a decent student. But never a hyper hard working one.

School to Engineering to IRMA. It was pretty much a straight line graph with engineering being the trough in my academic career.

In the middle of this I went to Infosys and put the engineering to work desk. The good part about Infosys was work was done in office and stayed in office. The after office hours were mine and the weekend was definitely mine.

After IRMA I joined CMS. I was given work on Day one, even before my induction happened. I should have reckoned the signs then. However, I liked the work. It was interesting, so I worked. and I worked and worked.

Now work is a part of me. It is the song that runs in my background. I make my lists on my Google note on the go. I plan my after office hours also to include that 1 hour or 2 hours of work.  Like I pre-prepare before meetings, presentations, review my reports. I think I am a workaholic to a certain extent. I do acknowledge that. Never did I imagine that I would be this crazy and obsessed about work.

Frankly speaking at this point in life, I like it because the work is interesting, it helps me learn new things, new study designs, new people, new projects. Personally life hasn't taken much of a hit from this as I manage to remember my parents everyday, take a few trips here and there with friends and family and have a few sunday sundays. :) 

Given, that the recognition has started coming in, so I say lets keep the workaholic alive longer. 

P.S.: The BIG trip is happening. Amreeka, here I come. *wide grins*