These Are His Stories (Not Mine) Vol. 1 & 2
Volume 1: His Life at the Waiting Shed
He’s been doing not much
at work for the last few months, because he is still ‘benched’ and despite him
turning one year at his job very soon, there seems to be very little signs that
he’ll be rolled-in to a new project anytime near. Somehow, people think that he
is lucky where he is at right now since he earns just the same without the
normal pressure people have in an actual project. His IM is open the whole day
at work, he gets to surf all the sites that are not blocked by this thing
called Websense with less worry that someone’s watching over his back. He gets
to slouch on his office chair sometimes, and he doesn’t recall the last day he
needed to work overtime.
While people think that he
is lucky, for him, he is seriously left behind. All his colleagues are not with
him anymore and are rather having actual job experiences for a long time now and
are getting the most of what they can have out of a professional environment. While
he is making very little progress on his career but then he realized he didn’t
have any choice. Undeniably, he wasn’t happy with his situation.
It’s like sitting at the
waiting shed with no idea what time the next bus will stop and pick you up and
where will the bus actually take you.
Volume 2: His Old Friends and New Textmate
He rarely texts his
friends or forwards text quotes/jokes to them and this is as rarely as he
receives the same from them. But whenever they plan get-togethers like group
dates, he would always volunteer to inform everyone through text and this is
when he finds it most practical to own a cellphone. He was holding his phone
firmly and looking at it, he recalled how his phone unit model has changed from
when he was still studying to now that he is already working. Suddenly he
realized that just like his cellphone, some friendships have changed too.
Despite this, he has
found a new motivation to hold his cell phone more often as he awaits the next
text message from his new friend. Well, not really new, since they’ve known
each other way back in college. It was yet another ‘friendship’ based on text
exchanges, he thought. And although he ought to be more careful with handling this
one by trying not to repeat hi sprevious mistakes, somehow he has managed his expectations that this could be temporary as
well.
For the meantime, he is happy.
