Big day for the Synamen Office.
Our sign-board went up.
I was sitting in my booth when CS popped his head over the partition and told me that Sriram and Shreeram were ready for the meeting (I mean, seriously! Can’t Synamen function without me, even for a second? Apparently not!)
Trying not to look too smug I marched importantly upstairs and Shreeram and Sriram were sitting there with an impressive array of computer screens around them, looking not-at-all like hackers – what a pity that!
We talked in length about PROHIVE’s features and the various possible competitors. I presented them with possible new features and they argued the feasibility factor with each other – knowing that the technical details would be lost on me anyhow.
Invigorating.
It was amazing to see the way these guys’ minds worked. One bounced an idea off the other and the other came up with pros and cons.
I felt like I was sitting in a tennis match watching the two of them power the ball to the other side.
While they talked, I flashed-back [movie style] to the day when Sriram first explained PROHIVE to me.
Who would have thought that from these 4 sheets of paper, these guys would have been able to create a portal that is going to revolutionize the way Creative Professionals are going to be doing business in the future?!
I certainly didn’t!
I felt like I was part of a ‘big picture’. Felt like I was part of a revolution.
I heard my voice say, ‘The change is coming’ [curiously in Sylvester Stallone’s voice] inside my head and got all goose-pimply all over.
“Edel, please pay attention” …. Sriram’s voice snapped me back to the here and now, but I continued to carry that special-glow-feeling.
The meeting went on for a while, and I when it finished, I came out a lot more impressed than I had been in the beginning.
A half hour later, I was sitting at my desk, when CS said, “You know that our sign is going up right? Why don’t you go and take some pictures?”
(Why am I always the last one to know anything?)
I got slightly misty-eyed [thank God for auto-focus on my camera]
I was feeling all Synamen-y and the special-glow-feeling came back full force.
Looking at them, standing on the street, looking up at the sign [that they thankfully hired someone else to install] I couldn’t help but be amazed at these guys. Their strength and their determination to make something of their lives. To not just be, but also to actively become.
I left them to their moment.
On their way back to the office, Sriram said, “We’ll just sell Edel’s kidney to pay for the sign. It’s not like she needs 2 kidneys to sit in one place and Facebook all day long.”
That warm feeling, it disappeared in a flash.
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