The Evolution !!

Aram
Aram
Aug 8, 2017 · 3 min read

It must’ve been more than a couple of years ago. I was meeting a friend after a long time. We had been planning the meet-cute since quite some time. Finally we met in a popular pub in Bangalore. It was supposed to be a legendary drunk evening, but at that precise moment she dropped the bomb. She had just started a “diet” and was off beer for some time. The first thing that came to my mind was, wait a minute, what is this life without good beer and good food. There was a part of me that was damn irritated. When I look back, I still cannot resolve the reason for the same. By the way, today I am the guy who irritates a lot of his friends, as I am on keto (ketogenic diet) since beginning of this year !! Talk about Karma?

I remember the first day of this year. It felt like a deep pit. If my life was a big room, everything seemed to be in the wrong place. I knew it deep within me, but accepting that is quite difficult !! It took some serious introspecting to realise that change is the need of the hour.

When I look back, I literally shook myself to get things into track. I was super lucky that this introspection started the very moment Kilter started posting these amazing stuff on Twitter and on Medium about health. It was in a language I could relate to. And then I read this :

I was sensible enough to then get a blood test done and the results hit me like a Tsunami. I thought the room was messed up. I didn’t realise that the whole house could be taken over by a hurricane. And so, following the articles on Kilter I started living a little healthier. Started making efforts to mend the house called “my universe” and automatically the room called “life” started taking shape. Then I was lucky enough to be introduced to http://twitter.com/pelorat who gave a direction to the random path I was following and there was no turning back.

But this was a road I never thought I would be treading on. First of all I never thought I will ever cross 90kg. But I reached 93.5kg. The physician in the lab looked at my report and declared me a future diabetic with all problems in the universe. Thankfully corrective action has led to a whole new quality of life. This is evolution.

Once upon a time I would look down on people on diet and think, “why are they spoiling it for the full group?”. Now I quietly ask for a Gin+Soda+Lime while everyone is gulping beer. I am the boring one who will order just a tandoori chicken spoiling the whole ratios and proportions the gang had planned for “Naans” and “Butter Chicken”. But in the end, I have started respecting a lot more people for what they have achieved.

Did I tell you about how developers should understand sales people? Well that is another story. But I hope you see where I am going with that ;)

Aram

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aka phoenixwizard // Technology // 🎸 // 🍺 // ☕️ //Once-upon-a-time-entrepreuner // once-opon-a-millennia-Blogger // ❤️ Food // Multilinguist

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