Chitra joined her new office with fear and tension. Her last experience was shattering. She joined a big company with a high hope and appointment letter for a lucrative post.
The next three months she spent there was perfect nightmare, at the end of that she realized two things, first, she does not have the aggressive mindset to make it big, and second she has been taken on a ride, her employers promised her garden of eden but forgot to tell her that they will assess her worthiness but she will have to pay the cost. They forced her to resign and as per the rulebook usurped her salary.
Chitra was almost shattered, the continuous misbehavior of her employees and cold and professional attitude laced with hostility from her colleagues made her apprehensive toward work culture, or office politics.
She tried to get over the pain of losing her dream job and move ahead, the next job she joined was in a very small organization.
Her boss was dream come true. His very behaviour was dreamlike, he never showed her minimum disrespect during her stay with him. But it earned the jealousy of some of his staffs and they started to bother her so much that she changed the job.
She called him up on new year to wish him but some one else picked up the phone and told her that he is hospitalized. She felt as if a thunder has stricken her out of the blue. For the first time she realized that the feeling she thought respect was actually love.
She visited him the very next day and after visiting him she went to his office, and observed every thing in mess. She offered her help and went there every day after her office to help.
A month passed by and both of the crisis were over, then one day one of his very close friends called her up and asked her how much will she charge for the works she has done. She told her that she cant even imagine charging some thing. But the lady on the other side kept insisting, finally chitra told her that she will talk with him personally. She never called him up after that and he never contacted her after returning from nursing home.
That day she realized a harsh truth, one should always keep in mind financial status if one is of marrying mindset. Otherwise that will cause only pain and humiliation.
Bitter truth of life today is ,materialism in takes precedence over heart.I know many who married to step-up on materialistic scale and have below average marriage life but they care less about marriage and more about money so it is okay for them.