Remembrances!

Today…yet another piece of BLOG gets added to the cyber world. This blog has been in the waiting as I was not sure what it would be about & even today that holds true. My first thought was of course – a blog should be about my everyday life and the shit that I make happen and go through. Nahhh…I thought that would be too boring, so then I decided to write about life in general and try being a ‘lil philosophical. That sounded interesting but wondered if I could sustain writing on such a topic. Next idea that came was writing about general stuff – stuff which I read and follow religiously – politics, cricket, business, etc. I asked my self a question – when there are so many newspapers available with so many so called “experts” ranting about everything from the “progress” under the Congress regime to the chances of India winning the bid for the 2016 Olympics – which retarded soul would care about my opinions???

So I being a total Bombayite – love the Bhelpuri – so my blog is a mix of everything that I have mentioned about and probably even more. So that explains the title of my blog – “rantings” and of course these are gonna be pure mental “torture”.

Well so my first blog comes at a time when I am just about to graduate from B-school. And so this first blog goes out to these last 2 years. Frankly, I rate these two years as a total sheer success or as a marketer would put if…VFM. For in these two years I have learnt so many things which I never knew I could be or do. I have learnt about making friends and figuring out who are just acquaintances and who are to be with you for life. School life had been a bitter experience and gave me this inferiority complex which took me all of 5 years of college life and more to shrug off. Welingkar has been an environment where I felt that I am on an equal footing with everyone and could be comfortable being myself. \ I saw this is an opportunity to make friends – and I leapt at it. Probably like someone who hasn’t had food for days and when suddenly its available, he overeats and causes himself an stomach upset – similar was the case for me. For I tried to make as many friends as I could and now that I think of it, many people just misunderstand me for this reason. For I couldn’t possibly sustain so many friends at a time and let go many, consciously and sub- consciously.

But no regrets, for the few friends which I have now are all literally distilled. And these friends are the reason that Welingkar has been a dream ride, for at every moment there was someone new I was discovering and relating to. The way the last two years have happened were great and wouldn’t want them to change a bit. Of course, there have been some bitter instances and some friends which I think would last the distance but which just fizzled out. But who wants to talk about these.

This is a time to rejoice and recollect the happy memories, the trips, the outbounds, the drunken misadventures(literally), projects at crazy hours of the night, lectures with IP messengers, unemployed people talking their heart out after a rejected interview…man have these days have been fun or what. From the first day I could feel a change –been a little more confident about myself and this has grown over a period of time. I have learnt about following and leading, about connecting with people at more than just surface level, and that amazing feeling that there are people apart from your family who believe in you.

2005 – 2007…what a journey!