Farewell on Friday. Well, not going to be there. Why is the question.
Farewell is sort of a goodbye to your friends. But isn't that ironic. If you are friends then, wont you even try to find a way to be together. The college is giving us the farewell. I will wish my farewells to people I will miss and don't wish to see them again in near future. And I bid farewell to SPCE the day I joined. It's the friends that I want to retain. But then again…friends??
Four years have gone by. I distinctly remember my Dad saying "Son, are you sure of taking Mechanical Engineering". Well, now that I am on the crossroads of my life, its time to evaluate where I stand. This is my version of "The journey". Let me bid farewell to a few people as well.
Lets see... FE was the most disappointing year(until I reached BE). Out of place and out of time, I could not and did not want to see where I was going. The only good things to come out of FE were friends like Ashish Dikshit and Vishal Bhanushali.
Then came SE, the year I regret the most (until I came to BE). I missed out on a chance of transferring to IT, because I, literally, gave it up. Saw my first student council election of my life. Except that, more or less, the year was fine.
Then came TE. The year began pretty slowly, and soon thing were about to get very chaotic. It began with the elections which Vinit Dholye lost. I will say what I was asked to do by his stooges and himself "Vote for Me (Vinit) for GS and for Manish Gupta for CS". I still don't get it when people say that he was going to deceive Comps.
Vinit, I am truly sorry for supporting the SPACE gang. It was my stupidity and naivety. I hope that you have forgiven me. Heres to a prosperous life – To Vinit. By the way, I am still not sure if its Vinit or Vineet. But I like Vinit better.
TE was when I met half the college. KK, thanks for the experience, for the good times, for dragging me into politics year over year. Next GS will probably have KK as his manager. Heres for many more rigged elections – To KK.
B.E. Electrical is connected to me in more ways then you know. I know Hrishikesh Thite since school. I think and I repeat "think" that Neha was in EM at KC, and long story short, took the last Electronics seat. May be I am wrong. I took admission into Electrical. I attended one lecture in FE Electrical. That's more than what some students attend in BE. And ,now , Bhise and gang with SPACE. Farewell to all you guys.
TE was also when I dared to go where no Bhat had ever gone before. I had a bad crush on a girl, Priyanka Patil, and decided to give her a friendship rose. Guess she wasnt in the mood of making friends. Thats fine by me. I hope that you are successful in all your future endeavors. Heres wishing you farewell.
Other wise TE was just like SE. Fine.
Now comes BE. The odd semester was TE all over again. Elections being rigged, presentations being done. The even semester would change my perceptions of friends and friendship.
It was a semester of disappointments, one after another. First got 97% in CAT but not enough to make it into SPJ. But that wasn't very disappointing. A friend went to make an allegation that I was conspiring against him with another good friend. The power of being MS had gone to my head, by the way I was elected Magazine Secretary.
Speaking of which, people seem to enjoy giving me false hopes and then walking all over it. Some didn't even turn up once while others are either sick or have tests or don't work on Saturdays or have a journal to write. I understand your problems. That takes me to another point. I thought of a bright idea to share my responsibility … with another BE. Well, I was wrong. Except from "when can we have the magazine", "arrey… ab nahi yaar", "Talele sir ko article dena hai" and the occasional "we ned to hurry things up", he barely even talks to me. Then again, he has had his own problems. I can understand. Theres more. It seems that looking at competition between Torque and SPACE, IEEE people thought it was a bright idea to bring out there own magazine. Well, it was. But not at the expense of breaking the college unity. The in-charge of the magazine found extreme pleasure in giving me a copy and saying that they did not accept "best compliment ads". It seems that providing a CD of pirated software was necessary. Yes, I can understand. Every one wants their work to be remembered. I still remember Hitler and Stalin.
What more you ask…. I found a new friend in Rohan. Except Ashish supporting me and ocassionally covering up for me, Rohan comforted me a couple of times when I felt bad about what was happening. I was the eager ear when Rohan was down about what was happening between a couple of his friends. Even at midnight, I was there as a friend is. Now I find one of his "friends" blaming me for spoiling him. Yes, I understand. Only if someone understood me.
So here is the question stated both as the beginning as well as the conclusion. "What have I gained for SPCE??"
So whats left now, Join Alumni Association by paying 2500Rs. And for what, for getting calls to sponsor college events which are managed by politicians with egos the size of Titanic. No. The road ends here. This is the end of the line for me.
I have wished "farewell" to the people I am going to miss. Some other people,that I have not mentioned, farewell to you too. Others, I wish I had never met you. So I wont wish you good bye. Also Ashish, Vishal and Rohan , I am not gonna leave you whether you like it or not.
So, Heres to friends and friendship, love and hate.
Heres to LIFE.
Remember, that present is a gift, which will change your future.
It takes 4 years to complete engineering, but a lifetime to understand its purpose.
It takes 1 college festival to make a great friend, and another to loose them.
It takes 1 friend to hope, and another so called friend to kill it.
It takes 1 year of FE to realize u made a mistake, and 4 years till BE to realize that you were right all along.
It takes 1 year to grow tired of Garuda, 1 day to terminate the connection
It takes 2 years to fill a 1GB Gmail inbox, and one click to delete the account……CLICK.
