It was amazing to see her again ..Sharon..my savior to drag me out of the slump I was in 5 years back. After being humiliated and fired I was in need of a drop of confidence medicine. I have never been put in a place where I was stripped off my confidence and left naked..exposed to depression! Life, sometimes needs an electric shock to open your eyes and get out of the fairy tale you are brought up in and face reality. Sometimes you just needs to be pushed out of your comfort zone. Nothing in life is for free.. nothing in life is easy…you take chance and live by it..your life is sometimes defined by one single action..your life is sometimes like routine episodes of living the same day over and over again… LIFE???
Sharon almost jumped up on me when she saw me.. !! She looked the same. She introduced me to her boyfriend who seems much better the ones she used to date. We talked on and on until her boyfriend told her that they would miss the flight if she didn’t check in..so she hugged me and was gone..again! I still remember the day she left from the project I worked with her.. Actually it was more like I worked for her as she was my manager. We were more like friends than colleagues. After she left the project I was promoted to Project Manager and I was pushed into a world of 2000 construction South African and American guys whose every second word is “fXXX” ..but instead of breaking me it make me stronger..afterall, what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger right?
When you work with people from other countries trying to inhale the experience within the small time they are here and take a piece of Maldives with them, you wonder if you would ever see them again. It was the same with Sharon … she loved Maldives..the water, the sun, the sea…by the time she resigned she was a bit of a Maldivian herself..
There are times when I think of all those people I met..where would they be? The little girl near my neighbourhood whom I went to school with, my bestfriend when I was 15 and lost contact with because her husband doesn’t want her to be friends with anyone..anymore, the teacher who taught me how to draw a “manavaru”, the boy who taught me how to play “boduberu” (I used to skip my speech practice for Dhivehi day and go to play boduberu), my vibrant room mate …where are all those people who was part of who I am now.. a part of my child hood…my life! I like to think of all those people as a color of the rainbow …as my life had been a colorful one…too colorful that sometimes it does blind me and force me to lose my direction..
Sharon has made me think again..maybe the world is too small now..you will end up seeing familiar faces everywhere you go..you just don’t make the people you meet a color of the rainbow..each person is a rainbow and it is not in the shape of a half moon ..its a spiral.. a spiral of rainbow that collides with you again and again..
I went back to the office..contended..one day I will meet all my rainbows!!
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