After my entrance results i was in a state of utter confusion.... on one side i was going to step into a life i'd always dreamt of..... but on the other i had lost the single most precious person in my life... the only fairytale in my life was finally over.... !!
My first few days in college was totally sultry.... life wasnt exactly as funky as i'd supposed it would be.... but freedom in any form is meant to be cherished.... perhaps i would look back and remember that these were the days when i met the five of my best friends.... i was , however , aquainted to all of them beforehand.... as it is said.... an outsider's perspective is always refreshing.... or atleast different...!!
Never before in my life i'd felt myself so willing to experiment.... bunking beer n' babes.... i was finally close to my magic trio.... or at least the first two.... late night movies and late night feats in the card games were a highlight of the brief nocturnal period we had.... This was also the period of a hell lot of new aquaintences..... some pleasant... n' some painfully pleasant.... one thing that is for sure is that the first impression is certainly not the last impression.... even the first glance safaries fold up to be meeks later..... i was more like a loner who suddenly enjoyed the attention n' company of many.... the spirit of team work and the sense of a group was overwhelming.... never before i had enjoyed my life so thoroughly....!!
Amidst all the change and fun... one thing remained... that was the sweet memories of the one special person..... despite trying my level best.... i could not forget her..... love they say is a dreadful bond.... yet so easily severed.... !!! the best of my friends constantly reminded me to move on.... it was pretty logical too.... but how could i...??
Her name , she had once said , meant the loved one.... n' she was the one indeed !!!
Anyways.... every day had something new to add to the weird feat tally of mine.... be it the tag of "the" prime bunker... or be it a record of 6 continuous hours in the movie theatre.... i did it all.... the one incident worth mentioning is when i first went to a bar...the poor bartender had his suspicions if i was old enough!! ... right from the school days i had this eminent urge to be the rolling stone among the others.... here in college i felt i was a little close to this dream.... selection in the computer science cricket team was no less a feat for me as i was constantly overlooked in the school team.... we got united under the name RayoRaptors.....the championship stats were overwhelming.... not only did we win our first title but also beat every "so called" favourite team....
Just when all the pieces of my puzzle were falling exactly in place,,, one monday morning i received a totally unexpected mail... she'd written to me after almost like a year and a half.... for a moment there i didnt know how to respond.... perhaps that was the little bit of the unpredictable i was waiting for... little i knew how deceptive things actually turn out to be....!!
