Chasing the Elusive Sakura and Production

     It is my fourth year travelling to Japan, and I have yet to catch the elusive Sakura – Cherry Blossom in full bloom. The first year, I missed it by a weekend, the second year I was early by a week 😊. Last year, global warming pushed it by 3 weeks beyond my travel. This year, I am keeping my fingers crossed to be lucky enough to view the elusive Sakura in Full Bloom.

              Just like the Sakura that eludes me, our project production has also been eluding us for a while. Which was planned initially in January this year, has moved to July, and is now in September. I understand a lot of expectations and emotions are associated with seeing the system we worked so hard for in production. And I assure you, everyone of us is pushing to achieve this call.

              Sakura – Cherry Blossom bloom stays for a week and teaches us the valuable life lesson that nothing is eternal. The same can be said about life and projects. While we will not go all philosophical about life. For projects like ours, the milestone achievement feeling is usually ephemeral. We rejoice in meeting the January milestone and the February milestone is awaited, and so on…

While I understand that the unending milestones take a toll, we need to look at the final picture. The satisfaction of having our years of work bear fruit during production makes it all worthwhile.

So, my dear friends, let's keep our eyes on the target(project production) and cherish the joy of meeting the milestones, however ephemeral they may be, like the transient Sakura bloom that happens every year in Japan.

-- Sanjay Ishwarlal Upadhyay