Life in DDU,Nadiad Part - I, The Bus adventure

Hey Friends,

                              So finally after mass bunks and holidays, the college is back on track with 4^th semester (for DDU people of course).  The feeling of going back to college after a 40 day break was something avoidable. So this time, I decided to write something on the college life and to be more precise my bus ride from Ahmedabad-Nadiad and of course vice versa.

“Purvil, bus aayi gayi kya chu..?? Bas aayij gayo chu ubhi rakh bus. (or) java de bus haji nikdo ghar thi keshavbaug thi pakdi lais” My 90% of the days starts with this conversation with my friends waiting on my bus stop. We have often seen in movies or experienced in our daily life that while going out of town with family/friends in a bus, is always an awesome experience, but going in a bus daily to some other town and that too for college, is something at once looks somewhat frightening, but in reality it is not, it is the best part of the day.

The topic of this article is based on my observations in the bus ride. The bus ride is really funny and the bus is a place where there are no seniors nor there any juniors all are friends. We have a group of people discussing about their day in the college and all the incidents taking place, some funny and some bad. There are a group of people sleeping and dreaming and it is really funny to see the way some of them sleeping with their mouth open, while some with very weird snores. There are some who are constantly gambling or playing cards and you can hear them shout in joy as well as in agony.

While there are some “characters”, as we term a breed of some special kind of people. These characters are like shouting and talking at top of their voices as in no one is seeing and when you look, everyone is observing him/her. There are a lot of people gossiping and that is the best part, the gossiping level and intensity is so high that even though, their headphones are playing music, they are least interested in turning it off because their full attention is on the gossiping stuff. There are people who act as if they are least bothered about the people around them and constantly chatting on their phone and you can see the person sitting next to him trying to have a look at his/her cell phones and trying to find out what is happening in their “personal” lives.

The first two seats are reserved for the faculties. Some of the faculties are really good while some are bitchy kind of faculties who don’t like the noise in the bus and always complaining about it or something else and as usual the students have a mouthful of compliments to give to them. Sometimes the bus even has some technical failure, and the bus takes a break in the middle of the express way and you have those awesome photography sessions which are nothing less than magical moments. Some of the corner seats are reserved for the “only friends” tagged people, who are not afraid to express their emotions in public and to be diplomatically correct, I won’t go into detail in this topic….;-)

The bus ride is something that is truly magical, we don’t know its importance right now, but once it is not a part of our life, we will definitely miss it. The main aim of writing this topic is people have many questions as in don’t you get tired and blah blah travelling for 4 hrs a day and answer is no, in no words we can make them understand that, the bus ride is many times more fun than the college itself and most of the times this ride brings the kid hiding inside us, while playing games like damsharads and antakshri.  The emotions are shared, the frustration of the college is shared, the happiness is shared among every one, the birthdays are shared and almost everything and each and every feeling is shared. I will complete my post by this line:-

“The up-down as we mention it, the up-down ride of the bus is nothing but the up-down ride of happiness”

With Love & Regards,

Purvil Kamdar