A wholesome Sunday

The struggle of marriage is often associated with negativity for people! Many people consider it that it is a mere burden to get married where you invite responsibilities which were not there before. Growing in one’s career becomes optional and taking care and other work is compulsion .

But is that all? Is that everyone’s idea? No not at all. There are so many couples, people and persons there who have really wanted to get married to their desired person or get married so that they can get a friend or share responsibility. It’s like everyone should get married and understand the deeper meaning of it.. yes enough of marriage and why and other details..

Let’s dive into the story where marriage really works!

Shivam and Ananya have been married for 2 months now! Absolutely newly married and now Ananya wants to go back to her office and continue working.. she took a long holiday as it was a long distance wedding to their ancestral home. So her long break included everything from shopping to marriage. Every single thing. Now getting back to the present scenario she is really confused whether she should continue in her old office or search something new for herself.

This thought was so intense that she started to eat less, sleep less and even talk less which was her most evident characteristic. This was noticed by everyone in the family but yes with time they ignored because it seemed nothing could calm Ananya down and only time will.

Shivam on the other hand is a very caring husband but his office is long distance he has to travel 4 hours each day to reach the office and come back. So things which can be so called ignored according to Ananya were never told to Shivam because somehow these were ignored. The same was for herself she couldn’t tell her this overthinking attribute to Shivam.

It was Saturday, and as usual Sunday was off for Shivam . After returning, from the office  noticed the tensed sign on Ananya’s face.

After the dinner while they were completely free from day’s work Shivam asked Ananya about what’s the cause of all tensions

Ananya told him everything. Without any restrictions because she knew if anyone could help it was always Shivam.

Shivam said no worries! This is your one and only problem you worry about little things in life. Tomorrow before anybody wakes up in the house we will go to the Vineyard which is about 30 minutes from our house and will decide there.

The next morning after they reached the very beautiful vineyard. The beautiful struck their eyes, aces and acres of land was only dedicated to vine farming. They had their own guest house, pools, activities and lots of greeneries and most importantly a wine testing and wine learning workshop.

It was pretty nice. It seemed both Ananya and Shivam found their joy in the place laughing and jumping and enjoying it to the fullest like there’s no tomorrow.

Next they got an announcement to reach the Wine testing section as the workshop was soon to start.

The middle aged wine expert explained 20 people who were there about wine, history, types of wine, availability, storage, export and import, tastes and Technicalities everything. He also spoke about the way to drink wine in a classy way and many more things which made everyone feel knowledgeable and helpful. At the end of the workshop everyone poured very little wine on their goblet to taste which was directly from the Vineyard.

It was amazing! Ananya and Shivam both tasted the wine along with other visitors of the Vineyard. After this they again went to the Vineyard to spend some time.

In the Vineyard they sat and spoke about the beauty of nature and how the day felt extremely relaxing and beautiful. Shivam asked Ananya let’s sort out what was bothering you for so long.

Ananya got angry and said… Are you mad? We are enjoying it here.. look at the breeze, the vineyards, the green fields.. are you okay you still want to talk about our causes of sadness?

Shivam said no Ananya this time I don’t want to listen to you.. you have to speak up because today is the day look at the weather how beautiful it is! Look at the memories we created together and this is the time you can make a correct decision for yourself. We can take… Why you know because we are calm now! Our nerves are calm and happy.

Ananya tell me what are the pros of working in your office again

1. You know everyone
2. You have colleagues who are your friends so you create good memories with them
3. You know work pressure and work yes it’s too much but the thing is you are aware
4. It takes moderate time to reach

Now let us speak about the cons

1. You have a massive amount of workload there and so this is an important reason for you want to change job
2. There is no transport sometimes and you have to wait for minutes to hours
3. The manager is difficult to handle during the session time.

So these are the cons right. In the same way we will discuss if you go to a new office what will be your takeaways.

Let us discuss the pros first

1. Everything will be new to your manager, work, work desk, colleagues and friends so you get ample ways to grow.
2. You can understand within the first few days whether this office is working for you or not.
3. You will learn more and challenge yourself in the process.

Let us discuss the cons now

1. If you cannot adjust here then again you have to search for another new job because you will not be able to go back to your old office then.

We don’t know much about your new office because you haven’t applied to any places yet… And they started to laugh together.

Ananya said you are so correct … Now I need to make a decision. I think I want to apply to new places because there are many companies for whom I want to work it was my dream .. maybe this break will help me to apply to these places because I want to grow career wise and it will only happen if I work with companies which are on my list.

Both has pros and cons I suppose but to have something we have to loose something that’s the way of life… Shivam now please say something…

Shivam said yup but you know it’s absolutely your own decision.. it’s your life… I am always with you whatever decision you make… I just make it a bit easy for you that’s it… For me it will be the same.

After all, you are my wife , one and only.

Ananya felt so relieved. Just like a huge burden of rock kept aside and drifted away in the river. Ananya hugged Shivam and said thank you so much and from tomorrow I will start applying.. I just needed guidance. Thank you! Thanks for existing…

Shivam said… Yes ma’am! But look at the watch it’s almost afternoon and we need to go back to our home … It’s a Sunday and there’s so much to do!

Sundays like this Ananya always wanted just a few hours just to unwind oneself, talk and talk and sip wine and talk on topics which otherwise seem boring and burdenable.

They sat in the car and drove back home.

In life too, we need time to unwind ourselfs sometimes it’s required to be calm composed and serene and think peacefully.

We all deserve such sundays . Don’t we?

Written by Sayoni Mahapatra Chatterji

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