In search of life ( part II )

by Prof . Balasubramaniyam

The kaleidoscopic time machine stopped at Heathrow airport, passengers' departure lounge, London, July 23rd 1985, time 23 hrs 15 minutes GMT. He saw himself catching the plane to New York, He had just completed his Graduation in Managerial Economics at the LSE and the girl in the picture who was conversing with him, and he could recollect she was his girl friend Christina Diane Rossetti. Jack had an offer from the Barclays, New York, as a strategic change management internee and Chris as he called her had just finished her resident-ship as a Medical expert in Community Medicine. She too had an offer from the Wockhardt Medical Research Academy, Munich, Germany. But she insisted Jack to stay back and marry her and said that she choose both of them instead of their lucrative careers. She was ready to take the offer as a Consultant in a non-profitable Hospital in Hartford-shire where Jack had still a choice of working as an Assistant Marketing Agent for an Automobile spares supplying company. She was in tears when her efforts went into the futile non listening ears of Jack. For him it was an opportunity of a life time where he can plan for their future in a great way. He was so sure that, he comforted her with the words "Chris, nothing is going to change the intensity of our love, not a thousand miles nor a year of separation, Chris you know that even a 100 years from now when we would have grown dead old our love would be the same or it would have only grown from strength to strength dear!". He just moved on, tears welling into the eyes of Chris, she was not consoled the least; it rained more inside the airport that day more than what drizzled outside. They separated with a hug and kiss, this should have kept them going and reined the changes that were to come but it was not the way how the story continued.

It has been 23 years since then, every thing changed, if there would have been a Nobel Prize for change, growth and development, it would have been on the table of Jacques Raymond Hill, the Megalith among the Corporate of the era.

Was it there that the needle of his scale called life tilted on the present side?

And he thought the least about what would have happened if he had stayed in the relationship with Chris, married her and how life would have been till now. There were challenges, excitement and the hard ways of course on what happened side, but still he new he was amiss terribly. He still didn't have a clue of how life whiz past him and he was ignorant of what the true meaning of life is.

Yes the question which was really put forth by the girl was "Did he know what really life meant to be". It will be a difficult question to answer for the person, who the entire world believed had all the answers. But first he wanted to know the true meaning of life; he handed over the reins of chairmanship to his trusted friend Brian Charles Whatmore, after a meeting of the board. He called the girl who had popped the question but the Cell technology section reported that she had taken a month long vacation to visit her mother who is living in some distant country in Asia, but luckily and surprisingly for jack the girl had left a note for him which the department head promised to send him immediately.

When he opened the envelope next day, he found a soft satin scroll inside it on which a small phrase was inscribed with golden ink "You loose your self to find your self".

( to be continued....)