Hi, all. Since nostalgia seems to be the mood of the season, I thought I'd jump on to the 'Oh-it's been-5-years' bandwagon!! 5 years!! Hmm ... that part is undisputed ... the most of the rest, however, is not ....
At the farewell party, I found that everyone (including moi) had a few memories that had 'stuck' ... be it shifting in to hostel with box, bucket and bidi [oh, well ... box and bucket anyway ...:)] ... or midnights walks to Goutham's after having negotiated the risk of getting impaled ... most of us have had moments which have somehow gotten imprinted on the cerebral hard-disk a bit deeper than others ....
Till here, its all fine ... warm and fuzzy .... But what about the rest?
Just like these moments that have inadvertently 'stuck' are there not moments which have, very conscously, been 'un-stuck'? At the risk of sounding like a moist towel, I'd say in our own private ways, we remember NUJS in more ways than what we would care to talk about at parties. And if these memories do exist, what is changing? We are leaving college, sure ... but just because we are leaving college, will our memories change? Fade ... yes ... change .. maybe, not ...
The whole point of this post, however, has been lost in my incoherent rambling. The point is ... or at least I think it is ... that surprisingly little will change ... sure, our entire pattern of life will be overturned ... rsponsibilities shall change ... but at the end of the day ... is that who we are? Does what time we wake up in the morning or when the next deadline is, really define us? I think it doesn't. I think very little will change, because we still are who we were 5 years ago ... and we'll remain the same ... Perceptions, attitudes and circumstances change - the core remains the same ... I think we are who we choose to be, and we remember what we choose to remember. So, the question really is, what do you want to remember?
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Absolutely. Politics, indeed! Won't it make a lovely drama...?
dude, obviously for someone like u there is not much change. because for u lawschool also meant one deadline to the other and the work life also mean one deadline to the other. everything else was incidental.
there a lot others who came, lived their lives there in lawschool and go back with more than memories, they go back with different people in them. not with different ambitions maybe, but definitely as different people.
with the RC tag and the NUJS ppl commenting... is this rahul ID 2315??
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