Au Revoir
As I write this, time slips by and another years draws to a close and its time to bid farewell to yet another batch of passing out engineers. But this time it is different, it is my own batch that is passing out. Those set of people with whom I entered this alma mater 4 years back. Looking back, 4 years seem to be so far back and yet I never realized how time has been passing by and here I stand with my companions at crossroads. We have to move on, onto different paths. One set has to move ahead and carve out a new life for them. The others have to stay behind and spend one more year in Kharagpur, fighting it out alone, without most of their companions.
It has been a long journey. Entering the institute as JEE entrants, fresh and jubilant after our success at the country’s most prestigious examination, the hectic schedules and tough life here at the IIT Kharagpur campus took a short time in bringing us down to ground zero. Long lines at telephone booths, in the mess, at railway counters, no e-mail access, hot humid weather, strenuous classes and labs started taking their toll and it brought us out of our shells much earlier than we had imagined. It was like we had been marooned on an island and all we had were the people around us. Thus started the forming of life long ties, bonds that will last a life time no matter how we are and where we are.
Bidding farewell has never been easy for me. And this is perhaps going to be the most difficult one. In these 4 years spent together we have shared so much and to such an extent that it seems impossible to imagine the other person not being there for me from now on. We have shared our happiness, anxieties, sorrows, thrills, infatuations, things hidden in the deepest corner of the heart, our best kept secrets till date. We have shared moments of love, pain, affection and hatred. There have been drenched moments – drenched in rain, tears, drunken revelry. There have been other moments of extreme rivalry, candidness, vocal revelations, extreme agitation and others of profound silence. There have been moments of strong glares, voicing slang, heated exchanges, violent contacts and those of handshakes and tight hugs. There have been moments of sweat and night outs, illuminated and colored moments, moments of dejection and loss and moments of victory, glory and pride. There have been religious moments and philosophical moments as well. We have been comrades in the field of academics, sports, extra-curricular and above all in life. There have been high and low patches but we have always bounced back to prove friendship stands beyond anything and everything else.
But things are going to be different from now on. Kharagpur will feel empty without you people. For all of us who are being left behind, 5th year will be more of an exile. I wish we had passed out with you people. It would have made the separation less painful by sparing us from being haunted by memories. Whenever we’ll visit the places we have been to together, it will remind us of things we had done, moments we had shared and the time we had spent. A year without you in Kharagpur is going to be tough friends!
Anyway life has to go on. As a door closes, a new one opens. I wish that all of you approach this new door in your life with strength and courage and unleash your true potential. I on behalf of all the 4th years wish you guys and girls a very happy and satisfying life ahead. We’ll miss you a lot. Au revoir.
It has been a long journey. Entering the institute as JEE entrants, fresh and jubilant after our success at the country’s most prestigious examination, the hectic schedules and tough life here at the IIT Kharagpur campus took a short time in bringing us down to ground zero. Long lines at telephone booths, in the mess, at railway counters, no e-mail access, hot humid weather, strenuous classes and labs started taking their toll and it brought us out of our shells much earlier than we had imagined. It was like we had been marooned on an island and all we had were the people around us. Thus started the forming of life long ties, bonds that will last a life time no matter how we are and where we are.
Bidding farewell has never been easy for me. And this is perhaps going to be the most difficult one. In these 4 years spent together we have shared so much and to such an extent that it seems impossible to imagine the other person not being there for me from now on. We have shared our happiness, anxieties, sorrows, thrills, infatuations, things hidden in the deepest corner of the heart, our best kept secrets till date. We have shared moments of love, pain, affection and hatred. There have been drenched moments – drenched in rain, tears, drunken revelry. There have been other moments of extreme rivalry, candidness, vocal revelations, extreme agitation and others of profound silence. There have been moments of strong glares, voicing slang, heated exchanges, violent contacts and those of handshakes and tight hugs. There have been moments of sweat and night outs, illuminated and colored moments, moments of dejection and loss and moments of victory, glory and pride. There have been religious moments and philosophical moments as well. We have been comrades in the field of academics, sports, extra-curricular and above all in life. There have been high and low patches but we have always bounced back to prove friendship stands beyond anything and everything else.
But things are going to be different from now on. Kharagpur will feel empty without you people. For all of us who are being left behind, 5th year will be more of an exile. I wish we had passed out with you people. It would have made the separation less painful by sparing us from being haunted by memories. Whenever we’ll visit the places we have been to together, it will remind us of things we had done, moments we had shared and the time we had spent. A year without you in Kharagpur is going to be tough friends!
Anyway life has to go on. As a door closes, a new one opens. I wish that all of you approach this new door in your life with strength and courage and unleash your true potential. I on behalf of all the 4th years wish you guys and girls a very happy and satisfying life ahead. We’ll miss you a lot. Au revoir.
posted by bisky at 12:08 PM
2 Comments:
This is really touching. I can empathize with you at this moment, understanding full well that the next year is not going to be very easy for you.
We, however, will try to do as much as we can. You dont have to feel lonely, hum hain naa !
And yes, my best wishes to all final years who are passing out. May God give them all the strengths to take on the big bad world outside and come out champs.
IIT KGP is your college and not alma mater dear. It will become that only after you pass the place. I hope you get what i mean.
Good that you kept it general and not very personal. Now, almost everyone can relate to it. I guess this is your article for the Alankar. Good one. Buggers rejected mine for the third time in three years. There are somethings you never learn, and few others you don't want to learn. I hope this writing for the magzines thing falls under the second category. And they told me this on the day when IIMA results came out. Hence, all that depression.
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