Time is something unique that really lets you realize its importance when it’s gone. It’s that one tiny second sometimes, which makes a phenomenal difference! It doesn't care whether you are moving with it or you are staying back. In everybody’s life comes a moment when they say, “Damn, I should have done this earlier!” But they do know that it’s too late! I am no exception to this… Time has taught me how sumptuous it can be not to keep the pace with it!
I have faced such a hard time twice in my life…Once, in the final days of my Graduation. I knew life after the last day of college would be completely antithetical! Fun part of the life almost gone! What am I gonna do now? Is this it? I wish I had some more time! The Separation was killing me. I remember one of my friends saying,” Ab kalse College band! Meri toh lag gayi! Ab use dekh bhi nahi paunga! Maine use keh dena tha yaar ki main use bahot chahta hoon! But now I can’t do it, mera time Khatam!
I realized Time was not that cruel then, when I discovered all of my college coming to Pune one by one! Me & Sham came first, then came Kunal, Naini(Ankur), Chaitanya (CMD), Aditya, Ram, Mohit, Puthiya (Anil), Rajesh,Tejya, Amlya and Our Guruji (Khari) Ansh kept coming every now and then to keep us under his chatrachaya, Shayad yeh dekhne ki bacche bigad toh nahi rahe! LOL! The only one left was Raj, who chose to stay back at A’bad because his Infy training for he was gonna move to Mysore. My world was complete again!! Added to this, when I joined TechM, I made some awesome friends in my training, my whole batch CS36 was amazing to be with. We all got attached so fast that it hardly seemed like we had met a few days ago. After spending time with my college buddies and TechM friends, my definition of the words Enjoy, Celebrate, Laughter became bigger than what it was before!
Unfortunately or I must say as Always, time refused to keep us together, separated us so differently, breaking us into bits and bytes! Thankfully, none of us was left alone but we went miles and miles away from each other! Before we could even realize the difference it will cause, we were already away. Some in Channai, Some in Bangalore, some still in Pune and a few Lucky ones like me in Kolkata!
It’s strange how one learns to manage life with changing time! (I know one has to even if he/she doesn’t wish for that!) You change your habits, lifestyle like everything around you……..I always keep telling myself, Expect the worst, Hope for the best. That Hope is Hopelessly Endless, because I never got the Best; rather I never even got the Bad, always got the Worst! People say, this is a new start for you, but as long as I don’t see that good start coming my way, I won’t believe what they tell me.
Next time life asks me to change Myself, I will have just one thing to ask, “What good have you done to me to keep accepting what you make me face!” But Life’s answer is as simple as this: “Well Nishad, That’s me- Your Life! Live with me or else I’ll leave you!” With that kind of a reply, I guess I’m better off this way! Long live Positivity, Hope, Me and my beloved Friends!
