Recently, I have discovered that I have been away from my known people for a long time. Like my friends and family, it's been a year since I last talked or made any contact. I'm like living in exile just with a view that things will be better at my end, and I will make all these relations smoother within the blink of an eye. I know it's not that easy, but I do believe in that way, lol.
You won't believe there are a few people who have texted me as well, and I forgot to check on their messages to reply. This is bad, very bad, but trust me, those were the times I was at my lowest, broken and depressed, stressed as hell, what to reply to them? And so I decided to avoid chit-chats with anyone and never got the time and motivation to reply and continue the chats. I'm at fault, I admit, but it's nothing like ignoring or being an arrogant type of something.
So, suddenly today, I have texted two of my ex-collegues, they were my seniors and later moved on for better opportunities. That's what we do, right? Can't stick to something for an eternity if that doesn't serve us as expected, maybe we should change the place and get what we max we can extract, and that's what they are doing. As I'm still struggling and my professional life can ease them, I thought of texting them to get some insights on what's going on with them. Oh, they have inspired me in many ways, one was my direct senior, another is from relavant stack. One taught of on how to take in responsibilities, handle them, and be the perfect version of myself in the workplace. On the other hand, the other one taught me to value skills instead of looking for shortcuts to climb the ladder of position. He has always valued skills and instructed me to sharpen my skills because he believes and preaches that if someone is skilled, then no one can suppress him from being valued, if not here, then somewhere else, he will be valued; he just needs to figure out the correct place to be in.
So started a conversation, recalled so many things, got new ideas, and got advice. It's like reconnecting to the lost connection to refresh the state. You never know where opportunities pop up for you to grab. It happened to me many times, got to experience the most unexpected stuff from unexpected places or people. And that's why I leave no stone unturned when I'm badly in need of something.
So yeah, that's it for now. Suddenly, I went from zero contact with my old connection to reconnecting with two; that's a start, I guess. Still, I would say, I will go offline once again, be available to the localhost type surrounding people only because I know there are lots of stuff in between to cover to actually stand being the actual me. Till then, ghost mode one.