"Be careful what you wish for...'cause you just might get it all.............and then some you don't want!!"
Almost all of us sometimes think about the good times we have spent in the past…..those best days of our lives which we wanna live again and again, and will still never get enough of it. Surely we want to get back in time and live those moments again....If you don’t find anything interesting in your past to remember it by,…..start creating them right now. Life is full of good bad times, create some and experience the exhilaration of this roller coaster ride called life.
Anyway, we all have some good old memories we cherish. It could be of the high school, where all the things happen for the first time.…Bunking class just to chat, movies with friends and most importantly, first crush. Or it could of the college, where all these same things happen again, but in full extreme. Bunking every alternate class, going to movies we don’t even know the name of and first crush becomes forever love….. For me School was all about “How to”. All my energy was focused on how to get good marks in exams, how to make my parents proud, how to talk to that girl in the class and how to get into a good college… After getting into the college, I made a conscious effort to stop indulging into any kind of cerebral exercise and now it all becomes about "How not to". All of my energy was focusing on…..how not to flunk the exams, how not to get caught when I lie to my parents and.....how not to get dumped!!
I do not have any doubt that my best time was college. While in college, I wished to get over with it soon and start with my professional life. Now when I too have joined the rat race and became a Naukri-wala…. I think about the time I have spent in college. I miss knocking myself out in the middle of the week not worrying about tomorrow, wearing different football club jerseys every other day for which I could have been killed anywhere in Europe, chatting till three at night and staying half asleep in the class... and many things like that which are now long gone.........Office seems to be full of pot-bellied bald guys, wearing black leather formal shoes with the denim jeans, having espresso every hour just to keep their eyes wide open and saving themselves from falling asleep on their laptops, which if would break, would cost them their whole month of 9 to 6 job. If you want to see how the world would look like if apocalypse would ever happen and everybody turns into a zombie…my office gives you the best picture….and for that matter any office…..One more thing which terribly sucks is to tell people that I am no longer a student. People expect a lot of money from you which you do not really have. Earlier I used to easily save myself from police walas with even `20… but now that they know that I am working in a big corporate, they expect a big bribe.
I remember college as being extreme…extremely ambitious as well as extremely crazy!!. All of that was in the past and has left some really great memories. Could be school, college or some other times, but we all have some pleasant memories of our past. It’s sometimes good to take little time out of our busy lives and think about it. This will definitely bring a smile on your face. But, life is all about moving on and creating lot more beautiful memories like these which we would cherish in future.
