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Sunday, May 02, 2004
End of Days...?
Four years ago, by a curious twist of fate, I was thrown out of a large luxurious room at home and sent into a small room in a hostel. My first impression of my roommate was that "there possibly cannot be a bigger moron than him!". There were about 80 other 17-18 year olds who had joined the same hostel at that time. These were people from all over the country (and a few from abroad as well), with widely varying financial, social, cultural, and ethical backgrounds. The only common feature was that these guys had gotten into an IIT.
I now have about two more weeks to go in this place, and I have come to realize that
:- that 'biggest moron' roommate from first year is now one of my closest friends
:- after sharing toilets, rooms, bedsheets, mattresses, shoes, shaving creams, toothpastes, bathing soaps, sh*tsoaps, books, notes, porn mags/CDs etc etc etc (... the list goes on) with quite a few of these people for four years, I have come close to them in a way I could never have imagined four years ago.
:- most of us will follow different directions in life, but in the end we'll all be striving towards the common goal of becoming better human beings in our own eyes.
:- the definition of a 'better human being' will differ from person to person.
:- most of us will not remain as lazy, non-sensical and fraudy as we are now.
:- six months from now, most of us will have much better sleeping, bathing and sh*tting patterns than what we presently have.
:- fifteen years later, if any two of us bump into each other in an airport lounge, we'll probably greet each other with the same obscene joke as we use now for that purpose.
:- if i list out all my 'realizations' here, I'll end up in the Guiness Book of World Records for putting up the longest post in blog-history.
Clearly, a major chapter of my life is drawing to a close. Understandably, the feeling I have right now is a combination of sadness and euphoria (with euphoria > sadness). I enjoy changes in life, and am looking forward to the next phase. I wish all the best to all my friends. I want them to know that even though we may never meet again, they will always be special.
