Every exit...

However necessary a change is, it will always be painful. Let it be as simple as changing over from one brand of laptop to another or as big as leaving your best team to explore even greater successes. Every exit is an entry somewhere else. It indeed is. However, with every exit there are some bonds broken, some promises unfulfilled, some dreams unrealized. It does not mean by any way that leaving a job separates me from my team. Yet, howmuchever I try and remain in touch with them, it will never be as close as actually working with them - day in and day out.

Another very intriguing thought is how paradoxical it is to leave as a good manager. All the team members have only good words for you. In farewell meetings, last team meetings etc., you keep thinking about this. It's certainly a good feeling to hear the good words about oneself. It makes you glad to hear how much people love you. However, you have to live with the very reason because of which all these words are being said. Howmuchever your team loves you and howmuchever you love them, you gotta move in different directions.

Hoping only to become better and better in future...

One very interesting thing I heard from a teammate is "some people never realize what difference they are making to others". Let me be honest and confess that not too many people will realize it when they are doing it - for a simple reason that when the difference is being made, there is a greater purpose than just making the difference that is driving the man's actions. The greater purpose can be as varied as trying to help a person become a great engineer or trying to build an outstanding friendship. When the man is guided with this greater purpose, all his actions are automatically geared towards achieving that purpose. The difference is then automatically made. And it is also not very unnatural for the person to whom the difference is being made to realize it only after a long time. "Parable of boiling frog" is so well known and popular anyway!