One fine morning I took a bus in this blistering heat. I stepped out of the bus and slowly started to tread along. I ask the nearby commuter and inquire about this place with a weird name. He told me to go straight and walk along. Following his instructions, I reached the destination and I looked at an opulent 15 storied building. I took out my camera and started taking pictures of this imposing edifice. This is when I realize, "Gosh, I've grown up! This is where I am going to work. This is where my future lies. Oh shit! I am not a kid anymore!"
I took a bus back home. I looked out of the window and like a stereotypical 'thinking' scene from the Bollywood movies, I got hit by memories of my days at school. I remembered myself as an innocent little boy crying my way to first day of school. I made the peon run and catch me from one end to other as I was too scared. I remembered reciting the story 'King Robert Bruce and the spider' having no idea about what it was. I remember singing "jhanda uuncha rahe humara" during Independence day wearing a dhoti dressed as the quintessential Tamil thambi. Those gimmicks, pranks and hooliganism all the way through school to prove myself as a part of 'cool' crowd.
I took a bus back home. I looked out of the window and like a stereotypical 'thinking' scene from the Bollywood movies, I got hit by memories of my days at school. I remembered myself as an innocent little boy crying my way to first day of school. I made the peon run and catch me from one end to other as I was too scared. I remembered reciting the story 'King Robert Bruce and the spider' having no idea about what it was. I remember singing "jhanda uuncha rahe humara" during Independence day wearing a dhoti dressed as the quintessential Tamil thambi. Those gimmicks, pranks and hooliganism all the way through school to prove myself as a part of 'cool' crowd.
The flashback took me to junior college where I was this lanky guy with an audacious dressing sense and a hairstyle which would leave even the likes Javed Habib and Shehnaz Hussain frantically search for cover. I reminisced those wild rock gigs which would make the 'adolescent' me feel liberated and anti-social (teen's code!). I remembered, Orkut and its testimonials which everyone used to look forward to. Those innumerable canteen guffaws and nonsensical jargon formed the lions share of my life.
I remembered entering the first day of Under-grad school with a sense of accomplishment of finally getting a chance to have degree by my name without actually getting it! Life started getting a bit stressful with never ending assignments. Perhaps a trailer to the whole movie of life. But I enjoyed every bit of it. Every single day was an adventure in itself. Life over here had surely taught me tackle the hurdles of life. I got the degree, though half as accomplished as I thought I would be.
I was in a different world altogether. I just realized that each moment of one's life is a shard which completes a perfect mosaic. It depends on whether an individual wants to make it abstract or to just keep it simple. Life has been perfect with all its imperfections till now and I have loved to live with it.
Albert Einstein has perfectly quoted "Education is what remains after one has forgotton what one has learned in school."
I reached home with a concoction of various emotions, some overpowering the other at different instances. But this journey made me realize that, no matter how much I grow; Ill still find solace in that little kid which is still inside me and will be there FOREVER.
I remembered entering the first day of Under-grad school with a sense of accomplishment of finally getting a chance to have degree by my name without actually getting it! Life started getting a bit stressful with never ending assignments. Perhaps a trailer to the whole movie of life. But I enjoyed every bit of it. Every single day was an adventure in itself. Life over here had surely taught me tackle the hurdles of life. I got the degree, though half as accomplished as I thought I would be.
I was in a different world altogether. I just realized that each moment of one's life is a shard which completes a perfect mosaic. It depends on whether an individual wants to make it abstract or to just keep it simple. Life has been perfect with all its imperfections till now and I have loved to live with it.
Albert Einstein has perfectly quoted "Education is what remains after one has forgotton what one has learned in school."
I reached home with a concoction of various emotions, some overpowering the other at different instances. But this journey made me realize that, no matter how much I grow; Ill still find solace in that little kid which is still inside me and will be there FOREVER.
Times change, and how. All of us are going through the transition phase..some to graduate school, which wont be as big a transition, some like you, into the corporate world. The details will fade out, but the memories will always remain. Here's a toast to the carefree life!
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