everyone was here.
one laughed at his client’s joke in a call,
one cursed at his excel model,
one selected 3 boxes on her slides, clicked align top at efficient elements.
one just made coffee, one already looking for dinner.
some discussed, some stressed out, some just arrived.
and you stared blankly ahead,
70-hours workweek looking right back.
but with your friends around,
life has a way of balancing out eventually.
and the impromptu CTMs always got made up with the impromptu karaoke nights.
the bumpy roads during client visits, were softer when you had someone sitting by your side.
hours cramped with data crunching somehow also filled with belly-aching laughters.
wednesday dinners multiplied into saturday morning’s yoga and sunday’s brunch.
tasks were shared, but food and stories were also on the plate.
our long nights turned into
day-filled delights, that turned into
months of joy, that turned into
lifelong friends.
so many good days it had been on the past,
even on the regular one you still have the urge to collapse time into a pinprick point that might be inhabited forever
because now, as you sit down in your old desk in the old office,
or in new desk in a completely different place,
you realized, nobody is here.
