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There Is No ‘Point B’ – Awakening of a software engineer
I wrote my first book, “Chennai to Chicago – Memoir of a Software Engineer” circa 2015. I shared the story of my journey from Chennai, to coming to the US for my Master’s, some heartbreaks, adventures, travels, and the spiritual quests that ensued. I was always seeking something throughout my life. As a kid, as a teenager, as an adolescent, as an adult, as a software engineer, traveler, writer, friend, yogi, I always sought something. I always thought, “There is a Point B and I need to get there.” I had no idea where that Point B was or how to get there. But I always felt, “Something’s missing.” And…
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This is all there is!
It suddenly struck me that we only have 7 or 8 decades of life, and half of it is already gone. Life suddenly feels so short! When I was in the university in the US, I liked a girl, we used to cook and eat together, spent hours on the phone discussing a lot of things, she called me when she went to buy cloth or jewelry, “Does this look good on me?” she would ask. Once she was looking at the miniest of the mini skirt and asked me, “How about this?”. I examined it for some time and hesitated a little, but asked her with concern, “What if…
