Nostalgia!

Budding engineers in the making!!! Ya, that’s right people! The ‘Lastest of the Last’ semesters of engineering always seems so full of hopes and dreams…

Four bittersweet years have flown by, leaving behind memories of a lifetime… It is one of those days when I am feeling simply ‘nostalgic’. I don’t know how normal “smelling” the past is, but I smell it quite often these days. Everything looks and feels so ‘belonging’… so close to heart…these good old days… Even the air smells exactly the way it used to back then. The fear that there’s going to be nothing remotely close to my past, runs shudders through my spine.

I don’t say that the present is bad. Infact, it’s so much better than I had imagined…With some true-blue people always by my side…Probably, 10 years down the line, the present would also be a part of a glorious past. But sometimes, past is all that matters.

The demented mind often hugs thoughts that have least occurred to it before. What would our katta be like, without us to entertain it with full time nonstop nonsense? What would the canteen do without our ‘THE BEST’ self-tagged B2 batch? Well, at least the ‘tea, coffee, pattice’ sales are surely in for a toss! These are the true loyal friends who will miss us! The corridors where we sat, desperately completing each other’s write-ups, the library we barely touched, the lifts we got stuck in!! Well, all these will get their new share of companions… It is us who will miss them more than anything…

I still remember us frantically pleading each other for the mass bunk… going to movies if the practicals get declared off… sneaking into college hostels hiding our faces in scarves… shopping, or many times ‘window’ shopping at Deccan, or if nothing else, just sitting in the canteen on a rainy day and sipping hot, sugary tea that made lips smack! It was as if the canteen walas poured down all their love at once! The deadlines we never met and the projects which we struggled to complete… the nauseatic examinations which even the scholars dreaded…all seems to keep wavering fresh in my mind…

These are the memories, I’ll cherish, carry forward with me throughout my life… Rightly said so, Life’s journey is a learning experience, but college days are the ones when you realize that learning at some step can be ‘true fun’… Such is college life…

Crazy plans…
Coffee mugs…
Crushes…
Fast rides…
Obsession…
Laughing on PJs…
Loving, sharing, caring, tears…
We had it all…
That’s life… the college life…
The reason for my smile!

The future awaits us with open arms, ready to torture us with its never-ending demands… Lots of expectations which need to be fulfilled, enigma to be answered… Lots to look forward to, lots to achieve… lots to remember and lots more to conceive…

Well, here’s wishing all my batchmates a rocking life ahead and all the success!
Three cheers to Cummins, the institute which helped me find my true self!!!