Get Out of that Cubicle

What does it mean to travel?

For years every one of us hard working professional's think about leaving everything that we have behind and going for that soul searching experience. To travel across the “mystic lands of India”, the land we call home. Rich with diversity, its wild mix of people, food, landscapes, traditions and stories for a lifetime. Every single time we have watched a travel movie like “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara” or an “Into the Wild” we think about this. But the next day we wake up and get back to that boring cubicle and get on with our day to day lives. Life has been more or less the same for us 4 CEO’s who have lived a strict 9 -9 life for the past so many years. Apart from the occasional weekend trips to a nearby, getaway life has been mechanical. The idea of an All India Roadtrip came during a random discussion during one of these weekend trips. Just like a usual scenario everyone just sprung into action. Call it our age-old yearning to ditch the conventional or just a random call to action and adventure drive, but it clicked. In the days to come, we saw meticulous meetups and the passion for the trip grew so intense that the work places of all four companies shifted to one single space to give more time for planning.

So here we are 4 days away from the greatest adventure we are about to embark. The simple thought of India and what awaits us thrills us with excitement and gives us an adrenaline rush like never before. The simple thought of getting out of our glass cubicles and our day to day working pattern thrills us. Yes, we are not ditching our jobs by going for this trip, we are just showing an alternate path to work more efficiently and effectively by working on the go. All of us would still be connected to our jobs through the “World Wide Web” a technological advancement that gives us the freedom to do such an impossible task. But our office would differ from day to day. Day 1 it would be the beaches of Goa, Day 2 it would be the bustling city of Mumbai and so on we go. Each day would be a new experience, a new learning, a new view, a new landscape, a whole new set of people whom we would interact with, a new language, new lessons that we would learn. The journey and its dimensions are still uncertain to us no matter how much robust plans we make, but after all; uncertainty is the most thrilling aspect of a road trip. So our first message to all those frustrated people in their cornered rectangular/ squarish cubicles is this “ Get Out Of That Cubicle” and experience the world around you. Life may not wait when you want to find time for it, so do it now. Take that bike, that car or maybe that cycle you have and explore your town if not India. But whatever it is Ditch your comfort zone coz doing so is definitely going to give you more comfort.