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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Fleeting Glimpses of the Few Last Memories – Part 3

7th April, 2007

Precious Simplicity…

Simple things seem so precious now… like tonight… when my roommates and I just spent the whole night chatting with each other… Not the “gossipy” chats that girls are alleged to hold when they are alone… Right from meaningful discussions about how Mansi should go about getting a student loan for going abroad for her higher studies, to serious analysis of behavioral discrepancies of some people I know, to sympathetic consolations for Muzammil’s distraught experiences as a journalist, to funny anecdotes of our school and college days, our conversation spanned just about everything…

The funny part was that, this was not the first time that we’d spent a night talking away to glory, jumping topics like crazy, even discussing nothing in particular at times! It was just that, it was the last time that I was doing this… I knew I’ll never get to do this again… we perhaps will chat at times, we’ll keep in touch and maybe even meet up occasionally – but I know that it’ll never be the same again…

As roommates, we at times just shared innocuous, unimportant, simple, everyday life details with each other… and that actually had a charm of its own! But once we do go our own separate ways, none of us would have the time to do so… and though the friendship would stay, the charm would not be the same…

I never knew a night of chatting with roommates could mean so much to me… but now I know this night’ll remain with me forever, one of those “few last memories” cherished beyond all measures… So truly is it said, one doesn’t really realize the importance of a thing, unless he/she has to abstain from it!

8th April, 2007


Packing blues…

I always have it, and this time it’s just spilt over… packing up all the stuff that I’ve acquired in five years, bang in five days – my worst nightmare come true…

Apart from that though, there is this air of finality again… I am doing this for the last time… the last journey ever, from Pune to Kolkata…

Honestly, there are too many emotions in my heart… and it gets more and more difficult by the day to put them all in words… perhaps, some things are indeed best expressed in unspoken words!

10th April, 2007


The final dates!

God’s been granting me wishes of late. He’s made me bump into very old & long lost friends, as if to tie up all loose ends before I leave the city finally… He’s let me spend time with people whom I’d have loved to get closer, as if to make up for the lost time… He’s helped me to wipe out bitter memories, and replace them all by newer, sweeter ones…

Today’s been a day of dates with such people… lunch with Abhijeet, a person with whom I got to spend much less time than what I’d have liked to, but has managed to impress me with his unparalleled sweetness in whatever little time he’s spent with me!

Coffee with Pratima, a friend who’s been in touch with me for the past year and a half solely through cell phones and the internet (bless the technologies!), despite being in the same city!

And dinner with a very dear friend, Aakaanksha, with whom I’d completely lost touch, but in whom I’d once found my twin soul! Almost three years isolated our last meeting with this one, and yet we could bare our souls to each other as if it were just yesterday!

If I were to mark out one particular day when I garnered the maximum of those “few last memories”, it’d be today, for sure…!

11th April, 2007


The Eleventh Hour…

Gati carried away all my belongings today… to be taken back to Kolkata, to my home… I am finally going home… Why then do I feel this way? Why then do I feel as if a part of my heart has been torn away? Why then do I have this excruciating pain of leaving behind all that is too precious to me?

I don’t know… All I know is that I don’t want to leave Pune… I want to stay on here, just a li’l bit longer…

12th April, 2007


Final Adieus on the Long Winding Road Back…

The last journey from Pune to Mumbai got over all too soon… The Mumbai-Pune Expressway has been a major attraction for me for long – with its endless tunnels and winding roads and hilly views… I’ve traversed this boulevard on countless occasions during the past five years – but still, today was different… today’s was the last journey…

The sensation of leaving a major chunk of my life behind heightened the most when the Innova that was to take me to the Mumbai Airport picked me up from home… I kept turning back to wave to my roommate, and to look at the roads and the places that I was leaving behind… I just couldn’t get enough… I kept looking back, until they disappeared completely from my view…

Soon enough, we hit the Expressway. I spent much of my time making a video of the Expressway – something that my co-passengers found to be pretty weird, but honestly, I couldn’t care less! Years from now, I’d love to recreate the sensation of this journey just by looking at these videos! Apart from, of course, showing it off to my friends and family there in Kolkata, the ones who haven’t had a chance to see it in person! Traveling down the Expressway is indeed quite an experience, at least to me, and I’d definitely recommend the same to all – and what better way to do it than through a live video!!

But the journey seemed shorter than ever… All too soon, I reached the airport, to be carried back to my home…

Sitting now in the Mumbai Airport, waiting for my flight and speaking to friends on phone in between jotting this piece down, that sensation of leaving everything behind has mellowed down a lot. Perhaps because this place hasn’t exactly been an inseparable part of my life during the past five years… or maybe, because this is the way of life!

Life doesn’t stop for anyone – not for the people you love the most, not for the times that you miss the most… I remember a familiar saying again: “time and tide wait for none”…!

So, now, I’m feeling different. The sensation of finally going home is sinking in… excitement about entering a new phase of life, a new way of life – the job life! I’ll be working, living a life which is very different from the one I’ve been used to… I’ll take small, uncertain steps in the beginning, but then I’ll grow confident and take surer steps towards success…

With a pang, I realize that now Pune has already become a part of my past – one that’ll always bring a smile on my lips – but all the same, a past. Maybe someday, I’ll reminisce about “those good ol’ days” to my children and grandchildren, the way our parents and grandparents do… but for now, I’m ready to leave my golden past behind, and move forward – to build for myself a new, sparkling future!!

And with that positive thought in mind, I finally board my flight back home…

Fleeting Glimpses of the Few Last Memories – Part 1
Fleeting Glimpses of the Few Last Memories – Part 2

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