Today was the first of the many Sundays to come when I will be leaving my Megha and Moksh in Waukesha for attending school in Evanston. We plan to meet every Thursday evening to Sunday evening. It will be sort of like a Consultant’s lifestyle – the classic 3 nights, 4 day away from family.
I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, I am looking forward to my 2nd year of MBA. The 1st year and a summer internship helps put things in perspective. You realize (or at least you think you do) about what you want to do with your life after MBA, what you lack and what courses and skills you plan to work on to get you to what you think you want to do eventually. In any case, it is definitely something that you look forward to… the kind of excitement that every kid has on their first day in a new grade in school. Those feelings… no matter how old you get, will never change!
But at the same time, there is that lingering concern. How will we, the MMm’s cope with the new long distance relationship? How would Moksh take to this new schedule? These days he cries and refuses to sleep if he does not see me sleeping next to him. In the day care, which we started last week, he apparently cries for his ‘Annu’ the moment he realizes that we are not around. And Megha’s starting a job. Actually two jobs… one involves building a mobile X-Ray system, another a toddler! How will she manage? What if the demands of one outweigh the other?
There are questions that you can get answers to. And then there are those that pertain to human relationships. These are the hardest of all… left best for time to tell!
