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questions, questions, questions! and answers that never seem to come.... Women, to me are the perfect examples of the Chaos Theory - one thing you do wrong now will end up having severe repurcussions later, much later and over and over again. Experience, it seems doesn't teach the Men too much in this case. Maybe we're bound by our actions and limitations. Maybe that girlfriend of yours who remembers what color of shirt you wore on the 17th date and how it wasn't ironed and eas an embarresment is just bat crap crazy. Maybe the boyfriend who kept you waiting on New Year's is an undeserving idiot. Or maybe it isn't so, we don't see it so, the World's a funny place and the people in it are funnier still. Relationship trouble seems to be the biggest trouble for people today. Not the stupid dead end job they're in or the wonders that the burgers, pizzas and aerated drinks are doing to their bodies. Elation, Anxiety, Happiness, Dreaminess and much more in

Its 3 years now! 3 years! That's when I moved out of B-school and into life after. Moving from there to my first job in rural Karnataka, to a bad job and many mistakes made in Hyderabad and to my current situation at home in Delhi. From being physically fit and fine to over 20 kgs overweight. Travelling around to Mumbai, Lucknow, Vishakhapatnam,  Hampi, Goa, Kashmir, Bikaner. The emotional tussles of family, love, hate, break-ups, friendship, lies. And then the unexpected turn of events leading to my house burning down, a car accident and police trouble that wasn't. But yes, I have learnt a lot, about life, about people, about me. I am definitely not the only one who had an eventful life. People I know, people close to me went through a lot. Fell in love, were betrayed in love, lost jobs, got new jobs, lost close family members - a loss nothing can ever make up for, old friends were lost, new ones made, got married, had that one unforgettable incident. A lot happened. The

Aahhhh! The Unending Thoughts of the Wandering Traveler....

Its something we were warned of. Not once, but many times. Over and over again. To the point we started thinking 'Not this again! Come one already! We've heard this a thousand times' but we still fall prey to it. Its surprising and ironical. I still remember  " No we won't become corporate slaves, we're not that stupid! Yes we will live our lives to the full! No we won't sacrifice family and friendship for work, its really not a difficult choice! "  But alas, 3 years since the day I left B-school, all of it has come true! And not just for me, also for most of my close friends. But everybody works 10-11 hrs in my office. Its not much of a choice, its expected. The market is so bad I can't afford to lose my job. And if I don't stay there for that long, my boss is going to think I'm not interested in my work. I don't want to fall behind others. What am I to do? People I used to spend the entire day with, breakfast, lunch, dinne