It has been quite some time since I met a group of
new acquaintance and talking to them under all kinds of conversation topics. It
has been raining a lot these few days and in fact I didn’t feel really
motivated to attend today’s meet-up as I was really in a rush and I didn’t even
have time for my dinner. I knocked off at 530am, travelled by bus for 90
minutes to reach the town center and then I must walk really fast to cover the
last 1 kilometer between the bus drop-off point and the meetup point crossing
at least five traffic lights. The new acquaintances ( I should not call them
“friends” since I didn’t have really deep interaction with every one of them in
such a short time of 1 hour 45 minutes) I met today were composed of local and
foreign expatriates working here, with various nationalities ranging from
France, US, Japan to Chile.
I really enjoyed participating in any conversation
with topics that I didn’t discuss frequently with my colleagues and friends or
something which was totally new and unheard of to me. It was a good opportunity
to interact with people from all walks of life and with different types of
thinking. Many of them are working in IT related industries and they shared
some details of what they were working on currently. The outside world is huge
and is full of thrilling things that always welcome anybody who dares to embark
on an adventure to explore deeper. My comfort zone is simply tiny and too
limited for a modern city dweller like me. With only a few close friends and
after working in the same industry for 10 years, I somehow feel that I am
losing touch with the world in many aspects. My world revolves around only a
few things – job, family, language and perhaps myself even I always hope that I
want to have a lifestyle, at least different and more diverse from my close friends
and also the colleagues I meet every day in office. Incredible though it may
seem, in just a night, the persons that I talked to make me start thinking more
about my current lifestyle. If I had not been there tonight, very likely today would
have been a very normal weekday’s night and brought no impact and generate no
ripples on my mind and no thrill to my mundane life. I am glad that I made a
right decision to attend the meetup.
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