being busy is always a rant we students have here. i have to admit its a matter of having a lot of things to do, of treating fun also like serious commitment (which makes it better) and of procrastinating. i wont go too much into the details, but i was managing 100 emails a day on top of classes, assignments and meetings and even kept a 50% attendance at BOW t not make it look like the DGDW team was dying of work pressure. personal side, i have my pillars - my parents, brothers and close friends and it kept me going. looking back, i will definitely say i enjoyed every moment of it and given a chance will do it all over again.
but this period also made me a blackberry addict. i was always checking it, having the unread mail sign on the main screen made me fidgety. most of my communication happened on mails and blackberry messenger parallel to other things ranging from sitting in classes to walking back home. and it was essential because it helped me keep up with it all because being fast in my responses was critical here. one day i left my phone at home, and despite logging in from school from time to time on that day, i didnt have access to emails from 1530 to 1730. i missed three appointments and two tasks could not be completed because i hadnt approved. and because it was a friday, it got stuck till monday. on the two days of the conference in fact, i was at three places at the same time all thanks to the blackberry!
and then on the second day after the last speech, i went to stage to close the conference and handed my phone to my teammate ana - just to make sure i dont lose it - and then never saw it again. nakis (nilli's sister) comment will never leave me - it was divine intervention, was too much to be just a coincidence! you two girls are not supposed to be using one anymore... i literally took that as my reality for the next ten days. plus my housemate's was left behind in skiese the weekend before, so he was using my laptop while i was in the conference and recovering after. so basically i had no phone, no emails, no messages, no connection to the virtual world, except for real people around in school. and i felt so much lighter and freer. the next weekend was multiculti - where i had both new highs and lows but also begin to lay the tracks to put my life into new gear for the journey ahead. managed to clear up pending confusions and created new one.. but we'll come to that later.
the december india trip was a bb-less time too first because of international roaming and then because my bb threw a fit and wouldnt want to start unless it came back to barcelona. but at that time i was officially on vacation, and travelling around was a good enough reason to be less communicative. before that the summer vacation was phoneless and this time purely because of international roaming and because i couldnt get a local sim on a locked bb. and then let me also admit about the time when i lost my one-month old nokia in pune and only gathered the courage to get another one 6 months later. and of course how can i forget my phoneless adventure in third year engg when i lost a borrowed phone.. yeah its been a whole range there :)
but vacation is a break and can never be a constant state of existence. should not be. i have to also say that after recovering from the multiculti party i did go and get a rented phone. that was the job search week and with everybody outside school i realised the power of virtual presence and connectivity. there is only so much that you can bank on with physical presence these days.. the mind and heart stay connected but thoughts need to transmit too.
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