Time management is a virtue. And the ability to strike a balance between professional life and personal life is a quality which is rare.


But there is another angle to it. We always get to hear that professional life should be absolutely segregated from personal life. But is it at all possible?


When I was in school, i made scores of friends, very few are on the radar. In college i made another set of friends, again, only a few are on the radar. Same thing happened in University.


Now in my professional life, my colleagues are becoming my friends.
I love to spend my time with them. I don't mind coming to work on Saturdays or for that matter even Sundays. Where my personal life amalgamated with my professional life, I do not know.


Now if someone tells me, "Go man, get a life" what can I tell that person. That, this is my life, this is what I always wanted, this is where I belong. And even if I say this (which certainly is true) hardly anyone will believe me.


In India somehow a mindset exists that if you are an engineer or a doctor or a lawyer then you are their by compulsion. In contrast your being a player, singer, dancer proves that you were academically challenged, again, you are their by compulsion.


Yes, agreed if you are like Tendulkar, Sonu Nigam, or for that matter Azim Premji, Narayan Murthy, then you are spared this "If you do then be damned, if you don't then be damned" cycle. But how many reach that haloed zone.


For a commoner(at least for the time being) like me their is only one way out of this predicament. I just give a damn.


And that brings us back to the original issue of work-life balance.


Hey, this is my life. I love it, I revel in it. I am here by choice, not by any compulsion or chance. Fate had a role, but only till one point. This is my work, nay this is my life.