My Days in Bangalore!! De Ja Vu!!

The time had come for me to leave the city that had given me some of the best days of my life, Bangalore. Where am I going? I asked myself way back in April 2006! Same place where I came from, the big bad yet annoyingly perfect city, Hyderabad. A city which is known to be famous for biryanis, the way of speaking say it Hyderabadii..! I had been going back to that city after spending three wonderful years in Bangalore.(now Bengaluru)!

My relocation from Hyderabad to Bangalore was a signpost moment in my life, and each day that I spent here were milestone sort. Life was at an all time high ever since I stepped in Bangalore, suddenly a door of fun, fame and friends had opened and I was overwhelmed with all that came my way. My being a part of the events & Fests that followed that year, the young and fun techies of Bangalore, the free and footloose lifestyle, the travel, the adventure, romance I did it all.

But it all seemed to have come to an end from the start of 2007. In just 3 years too much changed. Suddenly all the fun activity had lost its charm, people have moved on to different cities or have found some other pre occupation. If at the start of 2007 it was one of the most exciting thing to go out for a bloggers meet in the city, in just 2 years bloggers meet have become passé and they have moved on to tweetups.

The thing about Bangalore life is that it’s very volatile. The crowd here is a floating crowd, young techies freshly out of college come to Bangalore after campus selections, they give this city and their companies 2-3 years and move on for better opportunities. For 2 years they live to the fullest. These 3 years become their days of living life on the edge. Which is why you see so much of energy in this city.

But if you stick around for too long you’d notice, under the bubbling and bursting surface lies hidden a slow, lethargic mundane life. It may take you couple of years but it eventually hits you with a feeling of Deja Vu, like you have seen and felt it all before. Those smoky pubs, those unshaven rock stars, they would all seem a bit too familiar if you have taken too many rounds of the city.

This feeling of having served my days here began to seep in my mind since the start of this year. I started feeling I have lost my purpose in Bangalore. I wanted more from my life.

And then I was posed with the question, do I want to my feet in Bangalore to be rooted further and deeper? Do I want to invest more here to have a bigger life? The answer was No. Because I was done with the fun in Bangalore, the city had nothing more to offer to me. So I decided to move, but not before I could find the right job.!

Bangalore has given me the most valuable things in life, it helped me to to think foward, A wonderful graduation, hostel life, amazing friends, and over all kick start my carrer with the bangalore IT giant Wipro. It had been a wonderful journey in the city of bangalore and I cherish those moments and would love to be a part of the city in the days to come!!! Miss Ya Bengaluru!!!