Showing posts with label responsibility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label responsibility. Show all posts

Thursday, June 9, 2011

A Simple Post...some moments n memories

All right...Graduation is over...ok...sort of over...at least the study part is over.
Exams ended on 26th May...so technically that was the last day of undergraduate college life for me...er...ok...for us.
Packed my bags...with Nilu's help (lots n lots of it!!) and returned home on 29th. the Durgapur phase of my life is over. To be honest, i miss hostel more than i miss college. Every morning when i wake up i miss Puja. She used to wake me up each morning and drag me down to the mess for breakfast...i miss wishing Soumee "Good morning" in the bathroom while brushing my teeth... Ah! Soumee used to take suuuuch a long time to brush her's!!
i miss standing by Nilakshi's bed and tickling her to wake her up...
i miss Apurba's dining hall conversations and animated storytelling (cant disclose the stories she used to tell us...ssshhhh)...miss Sayari's "Indi Pindi" song...miss Madhu and her dramatics...miss Preety...miss Hema.... i miss my roommate, Prantika...am so used to having her around me all the time. Am so used to sharing not just my room, but my life...my world...with her. Miss having Amita around...she's the sweetest girl i've ever known. More than the campus...i miss the people there...
i miss the classroom masti n pagalpanti with my classmates...i miss the long long chats with Praveen in the college cafeteria...i miss the Hudco zone, the puchka walas, the roll walas...i miss Ram Mandir...i miss the spcl chai with ilaichi at Bidhannagar market...i miss the bread chop, thanks to Mishra i got to taste it.
The last day at Durgapur was perhaps by far one of my best-est days there...DJ, Kuntal, Puja, Nilakshi and me...the night sky spread above us...the sand beneath us...me singing Rabindrasangeet  ..."Emni korei jaye jodi din jakna..." and the breeze blowing softly around us...Barrage had never been more beautiful...am sure. .....emni korei jaye jodi din...sotti....jakna...
I still remember my first day in Durgapur...had gone there for the AIEEE counselling... and then, before i could even feel time flying by me, it was my last day there...29th...the day my big family, my happy family broke apart...each member moving on in his or her life...leaving the place which was our home for the last four years. but just like a true family...we've silently promised each other a life-long committed...no matter how far away we are...we are connected and shall forever be so...not by blood but by heart.
Have left many things behind...including some memories and some emotions...left them there forever.

Its a bright new morning...a new sunshine...a new beginning. All right, many things don't (often) work out the way we want them to but yes, nevertheless, if they can bring happiness to someone, its worth it. Had got placed in a Delhi based Telecom company...was in two minds but chose to stay in Kolkata...my family needs me here...and with that choice came the decision of doing my MBA from home. Kind of a package deal!

A new Start means a Stop to certain things...it means changes. Am up for it...am up for the challenges...personal, emotional...whatever may they be...am up for it.
These last few months have taught me a lot...the most important one being the importance of happiness.
It's true...you realise the importance of what you had only when you lose it... i learnt how important happiness is only after i lost the very feeling of it. i used to be a happy happy person n now...its been ages since i'd felt it. But we are but mere actors playing our parts...this world is but a stage... Shakespeare had rightly said so. And so...the show must go on... like any actor who puts aside his or her personal loses and diligently performs his or her part...am playing my part...for the show must go on.

well...thats it for today...i'll get back with more updates n articles later!!


Tuesday, August 4, 2009

chalti ka naam gadi....

yep...chalti ka naam toh gadi hi hai...boss hum toh puri tarah se sehemat hai...!! kintu parantu bandhu...chalti(gadi) ko jo chalata hai i have tremendrous respect for them. seriously!! but never before had i ever considered to even think about the tough job that a driver actually has... we generally, in fact always, take them for granted...they are just supposed to drive well...any mistake on their part is like blasphemy...something so wrong that needs divine retribution...
june 22nd '09...i enrolled myself into a driving school...i had always been facinated by cars...am a die hard NFS player...i so wanted to learn how to drive...i just had to learn it! after a month of training the exam date was announced. i registered for the test to be held on 4th aug '09. i was very apprehensive about the test...cause passing the test meant that i promised responsible conduct on the road...a small miscalculation on my part could be fatal not just for me but for others as well!
Passing this test meant i was ready to take up a great responsiblity and carry out my duty as a good citizen who cared for others...not just humans but all living beings...and i braced myself for it...
i practised hard for the test...and at last the D day arrived...
almost 3 hours in the afternoon heat followed by a long walk to the nearest police station...the verifications...the viva...the few seconds in the driver's seat....
i was at last permitted to drive freely throughout the country. i returned home totally dehydrated (drank 5 glasses of 'nimbo pani'... 'Lemonade' to the Sophisticated!) but happy...happy to have won over my fears...happy to have realised a long cherished dream of mine. its been years since any of my dreams came true...the last one was on 7th april '03 when i was elected student council member in school...and the next was today...4th aug '09...just 20 days more and then i'll have the license to be free...

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