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Akash : Kitni khoobsoorat jagah hai!
Sameer : Hmmm. Beautiful.
Akash : You know what, hame har saal me kam se kam ek hafte ke liye Goa
aana
chahiye.
Sameer : Definitely! Kyun Sid?? Hey Sid kya soch rahe ho??
Sid : Dekh raha hu wo jahaz, jo zara der baad dikhai nahi dega. Jante
ho hum
tino us jahaz ki tarah hai, jo aaj nahi to kal apni apni manzilon ko
dhundte
hue niklenge. Aur ho sakta hai, hamari manzilein alag alag ho.
Sameer : Tu ye sab kyun keh raha hai meri samaj me nahi aa raha. Hum
dost
hai, zindagi bhar ke liye.
Sid : Ofcourse hai!! Lekin kiski zindagi kise kahan le jaati hai kya
pata?
Kabhi socha hai?? Har saal yahaan aana to ek taraf, 10 saalon me milna
bhi
mushkil ho jayega!!
And thus went the conversation between 3 friends Akash, Sameer and Sid
in
the cult hit Dil Chahta Hai.
When I first heard this dialogue, I thought it was good, but a bit
dramatic.
5 years down the line, I feel there is nothing remotely dramatic about
it.
Its pure fact. Bitter to digest, yeaah, but a fact. And offlate, I keep
drawing parallels in my life.
2001. The year I started my MCA life. I wasn’t expecting much in terms
of
relationships. The only thought on my mind back then was to study hard
n get
done with the 3 years.
Its 2006 now. And the above attitude has definitely changed. I am a
changed
person. 3 years, 6 semesters and then 24 months in job. Like 5 wars
fought
and still standing strong. 5 years have passed by in a jiffy. Now when
I
see things from Sid’s perspective, I realize that whats said in his
dialogue
is indeed so profound!
Five years back I along with several of my friends joined MCA in VIET.
For 5
years now, we have been together
copying assignments,
proxying attendance,
bunking lectures,
teasing the hell out of each other,
getting mad at each other,
abusing boring profs and their equally torturing lectures,
sharing lunches,
passing crappy comments from the last benches,
promising treats on clearing all subjects before results (ofcourse,
giving
none later),
giving actual treats on birthdays and independence day (last day of
written
exams),
trying to get our dream gal TEENA (and without doubt, falling flat on
our
faces), cursing the Director of the college for crappy attendance
schemes
and stupid restrictions during fests,
dancing our hearts out during the Informals event (during college
fests),
preparing wildly for each presentation,
banging our heads during project days,
helping each other (in our typical styles) with pre exam blues,
supporting and comforting and motivating each other whilst vivas,
studying our butts out for exams and having a BLAST post exams!!
And now all this is going to end!
Of course we are in touch now and will remain always. Thanks to the
advances
in science and technology, the world has become a smaller place. But
nothing
like being together as we were in college. Nothing like arriving in
college
together and spending almost half of the day in our second home.
One day whilst working on our project, one of my close buddy and me
were
talking about life after college. He said, “Now we are so occupied
man. We
are so busy. What is going to happen after college ends?? I mean we are
going to be so bored. Even though the college work is like hell, still
it
keeps us together all the time and we work, we fool around and have a
blast!
How boring life is going to become post college man!!” so true!
Like DJ says in the latest blockbuster Rang De Basanti,
“Gullaboo, ik din ye sab nahi rehna hai. Fir to sab life de isharo pe
nachte
jayenge. College ke gate ke is paar hum zindagi ko nachate hai, aur
gate ke
us taraf, life hame nachati hai!”
Bottomline is : Each one on his own road!!
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