A Stupid Butterfly?

I came back to my place after a fight with Rajesh. What does he think in his mind? Having so much work to do, how could he expect me to ping him always and chat with him. He always complains and doesn't understand me at all. Oh no. I have only five hours to finish and deliver the code to onsite and still I am not able to find out the problem in this module. Everything worked just fine until the last minute change proved something terribly wrong. I have been working on it for past four hours and still nothing. With so much tension around me, how can I concentrate on something else? A popup from Communicator. It was Rajesh calling for lunch. I will reply later. Damn this code, it is still not working. My mobile was vibrating now. It was him again but I was in no mood to speak to him and just didn't attend it.

Two hours passed, still nothing. I really wanted to fix it and didn't even bother about my stomach. I started staring at the ceiling and then the glass window when a butterfly caught my eye. It kept on dashing on the mirror of the building trying to reach the mirror image of the tree on the mirror unaware that the real tree was just behind it. I thought how stupid the butterfly was. It thinks that the image is the real and it tries hard to get there. If only it would have turned back, it would have been home by now.

A pop up for a new mail from outlook interrupted my thought. Yes it was from Chris. As usual, some waste forward I guess. I thought of having a look at it for a change. It was an article from Newspaper. "Work Pressure drives techie over the edge". "Software Engineer Sandeep unable to cope with work pressure and jumped from the seventh floor of the building". I was bit shocked. Poor guy! He should have thought about his family for a minute. How foolish of him to push himself to such a limit. If only he had some one to share his thoughts with like how I did. With someone like Rajesh?!

I was puzzled. I realized I was no different from the stupid butterfly. All these days, I chose my work as the higher priority but in the process I forgot all about my friends and family and Rajesh. I looked at the Chris mail and pleaded I shouldn't make the same mistake as Sandeep did. I called Rajesh and as I expected, he too didn't have lunch. I apologized and took him to Food Court. He was too in bad mood as he was scolded by his manager for a delay in deliverable and he wanted to cry to someone. I realized that someone was obviously me and I consoled him.

We returned to our work after finishing lunch and I felt much relaxed. To my surprise, I was able to find out the looping problem which degraded the performance of my module. I recompiled the EAR and mailed it to my onsite. I know very well now that it would work just fine. I took Rajesh to Food Court later in the evening. He was in joy as his manager just now appreciated him for a quality deliverable and client were happy about it. He was continuously talking in a childish manner and I always loved to watch him in that state. He just pointed out a butterfly on the way and I felt it was a same stupid butterfly which found its way to reality??like me.

Friends do maintain a balance in your life no matter hard your work life may be. Cherish the fruit of life with joy and love?