Beginning of the End - One Last Time

Been long since I have written. Thought of it many times but didnt. I wont be able to live up to the standards of the last few posts but here goes....

The End has begun. My submissions are over, and am waiting for the exams to begin. Its that time of the year again when everyone is thinking of the amount of syllabus that is left to cover for the exams...For some it is the time to begin the revisions... for many, like me, it is the time to realise that we have insufficient notes and start hunting for them. But this is for the One Last Time.

Four years have gone by and it doesnt seem like a long time, but feels like a lifetime. When we began, we couldnt wait for it to get over and now we want some more time - not for the college work ofcourse but for the time we spent with friends.

We can split our entire life into 4 lifetimes - 1st the school life, 2nd junior college (albeit a short lived one), 3rd engineering college (or whatever course you do), and then the life after all this.

My school life was spent around the world (2 continents and 3 countries) - 2 years in Qatar, 2 years in Canada and 4 years in India. (I know that it adds up to 8 years, it is not a mistake. The remaining 2 years were spent between India and Qatar, not exactly sure how much where.) Out of these I hardly remember about Qatar and a little bit about Canada. My actual school life began in 1997 at St. Lawrence, Vashi where I met some of the best people I would ever meet - Sunny, Deepak and Aarohan. Thanks for being what you are. But the school life ended. Some friends were lost forever, some friendships were forged forever. But the memories remain.

The 2 years of junior college went by like a breeze. Got to do stuff that you couldnt do in school (like bunking lecs and going for a movie or openly flirting with girls). Had fun but didnt last that long. The college life ended too. But the memories remain.

Then came Engineering. The 4 years of copying assignments, completing the journals and doing the submissions on time. The running after the dumb profs for getting the experiments and assignments checked (here the hindi proverb applies perfectly - 'Kabhi Kabhi Gadhe ko bhi Baap banana padta hai'. I used to count the semesters as they got over ( i m sure every1 did).

And now the End of this life has Begun. But this End will be for the One Last Time. The new life that awaits us has no end. It ends only with our life. We have learnt a lot in our previous lifetimes and now we have to apply it. We shall be on our own now, no teachers to guide us and no dumb profs to act smart.

We got a few more days left but it seems too little. I want some more days, some more of the senseless waste of time that we did at leisure, some more of the carefree times spent with the friends, some more memories to cherish.......a little bit more....

But we have no choice. The new life awaits us. We have to greet it with Arms Wide Open and make the best of it. We have to face the End and a New Beginning..........for the One Last Time.