Often there are those certain eureka moments when you suddenly realise something, something that was there right in front of your eyes since such a long time but you just didn't see it the way you were supposed to. You never really saw things in the light in which you suddenly see them now.
"College" is not something new for me nor has something drastic happened that I would begin viewing it in a different light altogether. It's just another normal, regular,boring day today. Had classes in the morning, then lab, got back home and now I'm just sitting with my laptop on.
So what happened ? My sister's college farewell video. There is absolutely no connection, no relation whatsoever. It was a five minute clip made by their juniors to bid them farewell. It talked about all those fun moments, special locations and events of their college. For an outsider(like me) it should have meant nothing, right ? After all, it was just a bunch of photographs depicting fun in the true sense, videos of an infrastructure that I've never seen before and minute details of a life that these guys had been living since the past two years without realizing how much they're going to miss those little intricacies.
They are done with their education now. They have jobs in hand. Someone with a higher pay-scale than the other, but I don't know how to put in words what I'm feeling right now. It's NOT my farewell ! I still have good about two years in this institute, two years that I intend to make the best of.
I just don't know why that video hit me this hard or maybe it's just the entire situation taking it's toll over me.
College. Half of the time we spend studying. The remaining half we spend cribbing about what we have to study.
Oh wait wait ! We laugh ! We do laugh ! We have fun, we get crazy, we pull each others' leg, we help each other out. We do all that.
But we keep forgetting, studying is probably one of the easiest things to do in life. I'm sure, I will get a lot of raised eye-brows on that one but somewhere it's true. It's probably the most simple phase of our life, when we don't have the added responsibility of someone else on our shoulders, we don't need to worry about earning, raising up a family or rising to the expectations of our boss and so on.
That's just what I feel. That's what maybe atleast some of you will feel as well. It's just some vague, random realization that whatever we're doing now, it's probably one of the best things that we'll ever do in our life, and you know somewhere deep down we all know this. Ask those who have passed out, who have been working since the past ten years, all those people remember their college/school days with utmost fondness. One person can be wrong, ten people might be wrong, but if an entire generation says the same thing, there might be something of value in what they think.
I don't know where I am going with this. I just realized, this is the best phase of our life which we ought to celebrate, click more photographs, have more moments, spend more time with one another, sit and talk for longer, hug more often, tell each other they are valued !
That's just what I realized, this thing that we have right now ? It's really the best.
"College" is not something new for me nor has something drastic happened that I would begin viewing it in a different light altogether. It's just another normal, regular,boring day today. Had classes in the morning, then lab, got back home and now I'm just sitting with my laptop on.
So what happened ? My sister's college farewell video. There is absolutely no connection, no relation whatsoever. It was a five minute clip made by their juniors to bid them farewell. It talked about all those fun moments, special locations and events of their college. For an outsider(like me) it should have meant nothing, right ? After all, it was just a bunch of photographs depicting fun in the true sense, videos of an infrastructure that I've never seen before and minute details of a life that these guys had been living since the past two years without realizing how much they're going to miss those little intricacies.
They are done with their education now. They have jobs in hand. Someone with a higher pay-scale than the other, but I don't know how to put in words what I'm feeling right now. It's NOT my farewell ! I still have good about two years in this institute, two years that I intend to make the best of.
I just don't know why that video hit me this hard or maybe it's just the entire situation taking it's toll over me.
College. Half of the time we spend studying. The remaining half we spend cribbing about what we have to study.
Oh wait wait ! We laugh ! We do laugh ! We have fun, we get crazy, we pull each others' leg, we help each other out. We do all that.
But we keep forgetting, studying is probably one of the easiest things to do in life. I'm sure, I will get a lot of raised eye-brows on that one but somewhere it's true. It's probably the most simple phase of our life, when we don't have the added responsibility of someone else on our shoulders, we don't need to worry about earning, raising up a family or rising to the expectations of our boss and so on.
That's just what I feel. That's what maybe atleast some of you will feel as well. It's just some vague, random realization that whatever we're doing now, it's probably one of the best things that we'll ever do in our life, and you know somewhere deep down we all know this. Ask those who have passed out, who have been working since the past ten years, all those people remember their college/school days with utmost fondness. One person can be wrong, ten people might be wrong, but if an entire generation says the same thing, there might be something of value in what they think.
I don't know where I am going with this. I just realized, this is the best phase of our life which we ought to celebrate, click more photographs, have more moments, spend more time with one another, sit and talk for longer, hug more often, tell each other they are valued !
That's just what I realized, this thing that we have right now ? It's really the best.
Could'nt Agree more ! We are always thinking either about the past or planning for the future. When will we live the present? And that too a present as lovely as our youth !
ReplyDeleteYes Megha :D
DeleteYes ! You got me completely :)