Had some one told me few months back, that I would be
writing a blogpost on 15th November, a day before my CAT examination, I would have laughed at the poor guy. But such is life and such is my mind, to
do something new, a day before exams gives you an amazing thrill . Anyways, it is always a delight to write a blog. Out of all the
blogpost, I think this piece of mine is going to be special to me.
No matter how much I deny, my college life was high on
social quotient and let me be honest enough, I loved that life, I loved to be in
the eyes of the near ones around me. From that life, to taking a drop – to prepare
for various exams- and living a low
profile life has been quite a difficult task. But at this very point sitting in
an unknown city and going into the flashback of the year which has just passed
by, I have absolutely no regrets!
There have been times when I thought, the word ‘worse’ was
just an euphemism. The one thing which I learnt, out of it was persistence
which ironically is my Whats App status (c’mon we live in a world dominated by
Whats App and other social networking platforms). I remember one of my
faculties telling me, “Life will break you, at the very moment you think you
have started to get control over it”, and now I got the real meaning of it.
My journey to this D-Day has been nothing but a delight,
having experienced the zenith and nadir of the life graph. I have been lucky to
meet people at every instance of time, be it my school, college or any classes.
The journey gave me an opportunity to meet people who are at a worse situation
then I am, to meet people who were going through the same phase as was I, to
meet those who were highly irresponsible (which to be selfish enough made me
feel good). It gave me an opportunity to see eye to eye situation of what
pressure does to an individual. Twelve hours before an important exam, what do
I feel is the question which I have encountered a million times. ‘Nothing’ is
what I say to those who ask me this, while ‘Happy, Delighted , rejuvenated’ is
what I answer to myself, because in situations like this, it is more important
to answer to yourself than to others.
To put icing on the cake, CAT gave me the opportunity to
meet some special relatives whom I hadn’t met for ages. The lunch sessions on
the staircase, the ‘Kuch Nai Hoga Apna’ vaali feeling to ‘Finally Shayad Kuch
Hoga’ vaali feeling, those evening Maggie sessions after a test to those late
night dinner sessions post a 7-10 test, that expression ‘Shit, I knew it. This
indeed was the answer’ to ‘How the hell am I wrong’. This sums it up for me. I couldn’t
have asked for more. Had someone described me this journey 7 months back, I
would have gladly accepted it, but such is the human greed, you can never be
satisfied with what you have! On that note it is time to bid adios, with the
hope that (GOT does run in my blood) “all the gods be it the old ones or the
new ones, be on my side”.
Purvil Kamdar
