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Jon Westenberg wrote on a subject I too have been mulling over recently\u00a0–\u00a0It\u2019s Sad When Someone You Know Becomes Someone You Knew<\/a>\u00a0– <\/em>on people who have become footnotes in one’s life. I could relate to it, though I do think that many relationships have a context-based shelf life. I have written about this before – way back in 2007.<\/a><\/p>\n

My recent thoughts on the subject, however, are on a couple of tangents. It’s about how people change across time, and the way we react to it. I’ve noticed that I tend to ‘freeze’ people at the last set of close interactions we’ve had, and be very surprised to realise they’ve changed. Silly but true! In some cases, it seems I have expected\u00a0them to remain as-is even after a couple of decades, and get annoyed because I find it really hard to relate to their current version! [posts in 2008<\/a>, 2009<\/a> (3rd para)] In other cases, I come across a person’s published work, or opinion, and ‘refuse’ (in my mind) to accept the excellent thought\/nuanced perspective because I find it to be incompatible with my view of the person I had known! Someone I know had become someone I\u00a0knew<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I had to make a trip to MG Road recently – Lavelle Road to be precise. I took the Metro and walked the rest. The area provides a neat snapshot of my professional life because I’ve held jobs across the marketing spectrum in offices on MG Road – brand (WorldSpace), publisher (TOI) and agency (GroupM). \u00a0The travel agent I had to meet, meanwhile, has been occupying the same seat in his office during the 5 years we’ve been acquainted. His designation has remained unchanged as well. As I walked back after meeting him, I found myself asking how much really I have changed, and how much really has he remained unchanged.<\/p>\n

There’s a photo of D & me, taken over 9 years ago, in front of the Taj Mahal. I remember that I had a bad headache – probably the first manifestation of my ‘travel headache day’ which has accompanied me on every trip since then! I am smiling, but since I have the information above, I can discern the tiredness in my eyes if I look closely. There are other nuances I can read in my expression too – a certain smug satisfaction of having seen the monument, for instance. But I can’t remember everything about me – my thoughts, emotions, feelings at the moment the photo was taken. The mind has compressed it all into a few pieces of information.\u00a0I like to think of memories as a continuum, but it’s strange to realise that all I have is a series of snapshots with vast swathes of seeming nothingness in between. I am always someone I knew<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Its-funny-how-day-by\"<\/p>\n

(via<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jon Westenberg wrote on a subject I too have been mulling over recently\u00a0–\u00a0It\u2019s Sad When Someone You Know Becomes Someone You Knew\u00a0– on people who have become footnotes in one’s life. I could relate to it, though I do think that many relationships have a context-based shelf life. I have written about this before – […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1479,412,6268,7],"tags":[405,5023,2347,5024],"class_list":["post-11243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughtstream","category-life","category-self","category-yesterday","tag-change","tag-expectation","tag-memory","tag-taj-mahal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11243"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15537,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243\/revisions\/15537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}