He started his professional life
as a Green Man, learning to despise the colour yellow and at times grudgingly
admire it, sometimes even envy it. For around 5 years he toiled, harder than
most, to understand what it meant to be a Green Man in the lives of millions of
women around the world. He travelled all over the word, bar perhaps the
Americas learning about food and about culture. He went into kitchens, learning
how to cook exotic dishes along with mothers, trained himself to understand flavours
and at the end of it create magic on the table.
He believed that nothing was more
sacred than Food, the foremost amongst the basic necessities of life. And
perhaps nothing else in the world could easily straddle every step in Maslow’s
Hierarchy. Imagine working in a category where every single individual you
spoke to across the world was concerned about what she was eating that day. It
makes you realize that your success can spread smiles across continents.
Surprisingly, he became a decent
cook, a lot less fussy about food, a lot more experimental in what he ate and
slowly he began to understand what drove billions of moms around the world
every day to make a tasty meal for the family.
And he learnt when it comes to
food, moms seldom disagree.
He loved being a Green Man. But
then when he looked at his hands from time to time, they were turning green and
he figured probably it was a good time to wash them. So he decided to leave KSS
and return to his old organization SNDU, planning to wash away all the germs in
less than 10 seconds.
But leaving your love after such a
long time can be a bittersweet symphony. As he walked around his desk, cleaning
up for the next Green Woman, he realized that there is so much that he will
miss. He will miss the Bros, he will miss the dictator in the kitchen, he will
miss the cheerleaders of weight loss and he will miss the mother hen, the
lunches, the bets, the coffee and the free starbucks for every second thing.
This was a life free from internal
strife, free from one-upmanship, free from endless debates. This was a life of
learning and fighting against a common enemy, fighting for a common friend.
Interestingly, just as he shall no
longer be a Green Man, he can also no longer fall in Love with Green in the foreseeable
future. And that’s how he realized that the Wheel of Time turns!
