A small sanctuary.

I found this lovely little park today near my office.

This morning, while I was busy working on a memo, my computer crashed, and I realized I hadn’t saved any of my work. Has that ever happened to you? It is quite possibly one of the most frustrating things…ever. And everyone knows that Rule #1 of computer-use is to SAVE ALL OF YOUR WORK PERIODICALLY! But alas, this time I spaced it. What makes this situation worse is when there is no auto-recovery of the document. And what makes THAT even worse is when the IT guy doesn’t understand what auto-recovery is and instead, said IT guy just looks at you and giggles. Now, I’m sure he would have understood “auto-recovery” if I was speaking in Hindi, but, I wasn’t. And so, as steam escaped from my ears and I realized that I would have to start from scratch on this document that I’d been working on for the past 4 hours, I decided to just walk away so that I didn’t ruin this poor man’s day.

I walked to the Juice Junction and ordered a veg-cheese sandwich and a bowl of fruit filled with papaya, mango, pineapple, banana, chickoo, watermelon and cantaloupe. (It is my new favorite thing…and I can use my coupons from work to purchase it, so it’s free!) Then, still steaming from the morning’s events, I walked to this park just around the corner from where I work. It’s small and noisy from the traffic, but it has charm with a winding path, a small playground and lots of trees.

This city is scattered with little parks like this, and they are a sanctuary against the busy cars that honk and zigzag on the streets. It was so relaxing to eat on that park bench today and read from my book. It was just what I needed to cool down. And guess what…when I got back to work, IT guy had FOUND MY DOCUMENT!!

Peace. Love. and Victory!