When the computer clock hits 12:30 I press "windows Key" + L to lock my computer, (Oh I love this shortcut) I go to washroom, take plenty of the pinkish liquid soap and clean my hands and then I dry them using at least 4-5 tissue papers and use the hot air blower to give the finishing touches to hand bathing session. I head to the pantry taking the secluded backstairs of our office, there are hardly any people there and I enjoy its loneliness. I daily use those stairs for roaming around in the office. May be I like hiding from people. I am normally the first one to reach the pantry, when I reach there I take the giant oily steel plate and the spoon.
I go to the farthest corner of the pantry where I sit facing the wall and start eating my lunch. I eat slowly and normally take around 15-20 minutes to finish the 3 chappatis that my mother gives me everyday in lunch. I am done eating everything by 13:00. By that time many other have already come, most of them are in groups and rest in couples. I have never seen anyone having his or her lunch alone. I guess I am the only one in this office who prefers to eat alone. Am I shy or introvert? I think this is what others must be thinking about me. It is not true, I mean what wrong in eating alone?
In office I normally don’t talk to anyone on a personal level. Besides couple of people and the people in my cab I don’t talk to anyone. I prefer not to! I don’t know why but I don’t make friends with anyone so easily, it takes my time to allow someone to become my friends. I don’t blame myself for this closeness of mine. I think this is the way I am.
Anyways after lunch I come back to my workstation (yeah it sound cooler than seat) and put my lunch box back in my bag. I unlock my machine to check any new mails or new posts in the reader. I head once again towards the washroom, clean my hands once again and then go to my favorite place in the whole office. It’s on the ground floor just above the parking area in the new building. Hardly anyone go there, I have been going there ever since I joined this office. I love spending time there, watching the cars go by and looking at some of the fancy cars parked there and wondering when would I be able to buy of them. I usually close my eyes for 10 minutes and try to relax and don’t think about anything. It is one of the best times of the day. After my short mid-day meditation session I roam around for sometime and come back to my seat.
This is where I meditate
If for any reason I don’t get to do these daily rituals or if I miss any part of it then I start feeling bad. I don’t know why but I don’t like much change in my life. I mean the way I live my life. I don’t prefer any interference in it.
