Parting thoughts....

Well...we've almost come to the end of our lives as engineering students... A lots of thoughts and memories have been building up to provide a strong environment for our separation... A separation of two souls that co-existed and even nurtured each other for 4 years... NIE and AlumNIE...

These are the days my friend.... When every nostalgic song... (Happy days, I'm gonna miss my college days, Pal, yaaron dosti badi haseen hai...and so on...!!) simply makes u feel that these past 4 years weren't really long enough....! Or were they?

A motion is in progress...We're heading towards serious responsibilities.. What could sometimes be passed off for more fun work now will become a liability if neglected.. The coming year is going to herald an era of exponential growth... Where the skills that we've acquired these years (if any!) will but put to the test.. While it all seems real and unavoidable,it still feels like we're losing something valuable..

But we've felt this feeling before... When we left school and moved on to PU,and again,from PU to Engineering,when you gradually lose contact with close friends who once defined your life.. It's all like an erosion of life itself...slowly,but steadily eating away at our childhood...

The dawn of this new era is not going to be easy... There are changes to be made..LOTS OF THEM... Sacrifices.. Unfortunately,we're going to lose some friends again...The way I see it,we already have...

It seems trivial sometimes to talk about this,cause everyone faces this at some point of time...So deal!! This is probably the first major compromise we learn to make with life.. (I call it selling our souls....!!) We're trading in the most fun years of life for more serious ones...So how do we choose to make the best of this moment? To make sure,we fill our memories to the brim before the gushing torrents of fun dry up before our very eyes...?

The choice again is simple... You make a choice!!

We are only what we choose to be... The way we speak,the way we think, our behaviour with people.. It's all due to choices that we've made... We've chosen to walk this path and have treaded it so far.. Each critical phase brings us to new crossroads... And now,we have a path to take..We tread the paths we choose... Some with hesitation,some with denial,some wit ignorance of the path,and very rarely,we tread some paths with utmost self-belief... Yet,the choice is inevitable...

Suddenly, everything is getting clear...Unresolved issues are getting resolved... People I know are really becoming(or rather have become) the kinda person they will be for the next couple of years.. Truth is coming out into the open, people who would tolerate each other for the sake of some unseen,unfelt bond are now losing it's value...And probably coming to their senses... All the pain that the past few years have brought upon us has been put to a standstill...

So are we ready for the life that stares at us right now? This moment... The next... The coming month...Year... How will we end up? I honestly don't care.... Today is our day... Let's take it on by it's horns... and let tomorrow bring upon a new challenge...!! We're ready.... Am I right??? (say ahoo.... 300 style!)

All the best to all you guys... Hope you've enjoyed every moment of these four years as I have... and here's wishing you many more wonderful years ahead... God bless..! :)

Adding on to " How to choose the one?"

Had initially posted this as a comment, but am putting it up here as a post as suggested by author..

Hmmmmm.. and hmmmm again.. that sure was quite an intensive one.. and I must appreciate the analysis that must have gone into its making!! Well, I toatlly agree with the line "I don't know how a person can CHOOSE a girl to love...the whole idea seems opposite to the notion of love.."
Well, I live under this huge assumption ( atleast that is what I have always felt) that "love" gets way too mechanical (for want of a better word) when you go around looking for people who have the tags attached. What I mean to say is, no doubt it helps to have someone who understands you, whom you are comfy with, who is compassionate and has all the goody adjectives but then, literally "looking" for someone who fills in the slot by fulfilling the criteria is more like finding a life partner(whom you may not really love at all), but is that love? Call me impractical and insane but then isn't love all about getting to know a person and love him/her for what she/he is ( maybe the traits match your list) and inturn accept that person as your soulmate and your everything? Or is it just another of those pre-prepared lists of "what-I -look-for" that you carry about on invisible placards and view people as to whether they have them too? Would it be be love or just another quest for a partner? Agreed, that you will like ( love??) your partner but where is all that magic of oving when you have chosen the person based on what you felt makes you happy. I see it more as a self-appeasing drive. I mean, all you are doing is ensuring yourself some joy. Maybe I am making it sound bad, but then, I don't really think very highly of it ..love to me is what a mother shares with her child. Pure, simple with absolutely no prerequisites or constraints at all.Unconditional. A mother doesn't look for any trait. Maybe, you'd say that "that" is a different kind of love. But then, love isn't love when start categorizing it right? Ultimately the feeling is the same. You would do anything for the person you love. If love is what you feel when you meet people possessing most of the charateristics you are looking for, how does it explain failed "love marriages".. I mean, you were supposed to have "loved" the person, right? I don't know whether I have actually made any sense. Coz' I am like filled with words all at once :P We do hear the popular " Be practical.You think this is going to work?" and then you know it isn't exactly a very good question. You hardly think of all this when you fall in love. I agree that you have analysed and listed traits that usually have resulted in love but what I am trying to opine is that people don't necessarily rule out features in love. I mean, you just love a person. Every little thingy that goes in to their making, maybe. At times, you have people of totally opposite nature loving each other and staying content. And at times, you have people of very similar interests staying super happy with each other and still share the same love for each other. Love, I guess can never be defined. So much for all the above banter that made no sense, you'd say. And I still can't help loving these lines..

If I could have just one wish,
I would wish to wake up everyday
to the sound of your breath on my neck,
the warmth of your lips on my cheek,
the touch of your fingers on my skin,
and the feel of your heart beating with mine...
Knowing that I could never find that feeling
with anyone other than you.


Love , I guess, is like that..