{longish post} Reflecting over yesterday - first things first, it was a bone-crunchingly tiring day. A feeling of having gone through a washing machine cycle, spun around, wrung out dry and thrown out. We shot 28 videos between 9am-6.45pm. This included lunch time, batteries charging time, downloading from card time. I was up from 4.30 am prepping for ingredients and all sundry stuff for the 30 planned videos, quite convinced that I wouldnt come anywhere close to finishing it. A little background: the first day of shoot for this schedule, last week, Kavita Cheruvatath lined up 24 videos for me to shoot, and I told her NO WAY we can do this. We managed 19, I think. And then this week, she said we have lined up 30 videos for 5th April. She tried to soften the blow by adding that it would be easier this time around. I think we discussed this over whatsapp, so she couldnt see my face reacting to this. I was somewhere between laughing and crying. Laughing because someone could think I was capable of this mammoth task and crying because I was going to let someone down. Yesterday, I learnt that we perform to the targets we set. And we often underestimate ourselves and our capabilities while setting targets, from the fear that we may not achieve and the fear of failing in our own eyes and failing those people to whom we have promised to deliver. Even yesterday morning, I had NO faith whatsoever that we would come close to our target of 30 and we almost did. This is quite a lesson for me. Of course, having a slave driver like Kavita around, helps. A LOT. Im going to spend my Sunday, relaxing as much as possible, and feeling quite awesome. P.S. I must say thanks to my dear friend, Puja ParikhGajjar who had Atri home for half a day, so he wasnt constantly getting in the middle of our videos, adding to our bloopers collection :D
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 01:51:20 +0000
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