“All is programmed for you”.
This is what every person who enters through the main door on north side would read once when they entered the firm. The gold plated letters where used welcome everyone to the Gooogle world. The geek god was revered here and ordinary people would just stand in awe ofthe glittering gold that made them feel so unintellectual. Geeks language was a trait used by gooogle to gain upper hand when making business deals with others and these words had become the general norm of every deal and used to appear in everything from desktop to documents.
They were working in the same team and both used to chit chat at the coffee table every afternoon. It was 15 to 25 minutes break where they used to discuss all sorts of things together. Today's topic of discussion had popped out when Venkat saw one of those business papers and asked these questions to John.
Is this really true? Is everything really programmed? And all that we do is to follow the execution path. Is that all there is to it? asked Venkat looking very engrosed into the words written on those papers.
“Yeah mate the boss has got everything figured out for us. He knows what task to assign us for next week and the next one after that. He has got everything figured out and all we have to do is to complete the task given to us. Damn this Alex!” replied John.
The coffee session end after 10 minutes and both went back to work.
On the way home Venkat couldn't stop thinking about what John said to him during coffee session. Venkat was referring to life when he had asked John about this question and though the answer that John gave was in reference to Alex. Things made sense to Venkat when he attached GOD in place of Alex.
But why would god want me do this when I don't want to do this myself?
Venkat wanted to become to become a police officer and serve the place that had given him so much in his life.
But just days before his attending the interview Venkat got into accident and accident left him slight limp. His was forced to study and take up a flight to US. Although not a huge fan of computers himself Venkat became a software developer and his dreams of becoming a police officer had to be put off. His route to US was without any trouble whatsoever and everything just seemed to fall in place for him to become a software developer.
He just couldnot accept that his life was "programmed for him to be that way". Is was not agreeable to him. Not just this big one but other small incidents too like when he got all the assignment of Gooogle Mantra when Victor had made all the efforts to get it or when got the credit for a team job, made him feel as if thing were not under his control. He always got the feeling that outcome was beyond his influence and that someone else was affecting it.
Is there a hidden secret to my life that I ought to know? thought Venkat. Is this mysterious force just going to be someone whom I have never seen just heard about. Is my life already programmed by this force.
"I have to find out more. Just accepting the situation is not a solution. No not for me".
7 comments:
Lakshmi, are you not writing your own story, is it? I don’t have any comments on QUESTIONS story but it’s a kind if more narrative. I don’t know if you are from IIT. Who is this Venkat?
When I was studying in IIT Kanpur, we heard a horror story about another Venkat. I will write you on ORKUT.
cooool, the story is building up....
slight essence of ur personal life (i guess :))
@all
kewl...
many of you have asked if its my story or someone elses.
read furhter to find out
good move lachho, "Table of Freedom" to Confusion in coffee table :)
eager to know programmers philosophy..
wow laxmi great concept match between god and project manager..that was a creative idea....i feel venkat hasnt explored his office too much, does he know about the incredible cafeteria he has at his workplace :-)
aha aj ivallo naala padikave illa. v bad v bad.
mapil itz not confusion its enlightment.
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