Groundhog Day

Yes, I had disappeared from blogging for two weeks. There was a problem at work which required my full attention. We were almost 24x7 for a whole week of endless days, nights, SMS notifications three times a night on progress, weekends, and many levels of escalations. On the 3rd or 4th day (even I no longer recall), I would get in to work in the morning or at 9pm at night, glance at my fellow colleague in the same boat with me, and we knew it was another groundhog day. The same problem persisted and haunted us for almost 2 weeks. Luckily this was resolved last Wednesday and Groundhog Day ended.

What is Groundhog Day? It was a movie in the 90s starring Bill Murray. I saw it when I was much younger, but remembered the scenario - Bill Murray would wake up everyday and it was the same day again (he was a journalist covering a boring event called Groundhog Day). He would go through the same scenario, except that in some cases, he knew what would happen next. Eventually, he would woo the same lady again and again in different ways, until finally... Groundhog Day ends.

So, in the midst of our problems, I asked my colleague, how did Groundhog Day end in the movie? My colleague said - it ended when he (Bill Murray's role) found love. I moaned in disbelief when I heard that, but, well, improvisation was my speciality.

So, what I did was instead of finding love overnight, I proceeded to "spread the love". We shared the problem to our younger colleagues, got them involved even though it could not help much, but to just cut down on the burden on a few.

Eventually the problem did get resolved through our hard work in finding a solution. Though the love spreading did not directly solve the problem, it did in some magical way, help.

Loving is sharing, sharing is loving!