Graduation Day! It was filling my heart with mixed feelings, fulfillment and sadness, anxiety, and eagerness. We were about to say goodbye one last time to the most comfortable and secure life within the so called most strict and disciplined walls of my college. Friends of mine and I myself have already started marching forward to the commandments, and the beats of the hectic and stressful corporate as well as the business world. 'Look out for the selfish world around you,' warned one professor. 'Learn to identify opportunity and do grab it,' said another. The uncertainty of my future loomed very large in my mind and it shaped up as an impending occurrence although my graduation was not flawless and accurate.
The term “Graduation day” as personified by me and many of my friends is “ as if we were loaded with arms and ammunitions comprising of a bachelor of engineering degree and plenty of idealistic dreams with the deliberately known fact that we are not fully loaded”. Let me put an end to the lengthy baptism here. It was a sweltry morning. I was accompanied by my mom and grandma for that eventful day in my life! It was a big day for me! Make it very clear I was not a topper, I was just a mediocre student who toiled hard amidst plenty of diversions and obstacles to achieve this graduation! My college was always my home away from home! I always felt a lot more secured and comfortable in it, despite the fact that the college management never knew that a word called “Leniency” ever existed. The heart beats started rising high as if I was getting ready for a 100 meter dash when was I nearing the college premises.
The excitement, zeal and the anxiety were at its peak when I entered the reception and met one of my lecturers and everything got balanced and accustomed when I went on to meet the rest of the others! Exactly of the same way of how team India will falter chasing a mighty total. Everything got settled and even my sleep deprived mind which was messing up with all those random, imaginative, picturesque thoughts that previous night, got used to the situation. My heart and eyes started to eagerly wait for the "Only best” turned “Parted” friend of mine whom I was missing all these days like how a kid’s heart will be mounting up with excitement and happiness to see its dad or mom after a very long time! The heart of mine even underwent that little excitement and jerk and it even succeeded in overcoming it. The scariest thing about being separated by distance is that you will never know if that special someone of yours is missing you or learning to live without you. Even I can say I somehow survived, surpassed, bleeded and even died in the last because of all those scares in my life. Distance here doesn’t mean the physical distance it’s just how far and strong your thoughts about the special someone of yours can travel.
Feelings apart let us get in to the arena which fetched me the degree certificate. So accompanied by my friends and my mom and grandma with the most hilarious of robes ever possible we all sat in the allotted seats enquiring and discussing about every other friend’s well being. So the moment came to a sudden end when I was awarded the certificate by the editor of “The Hindu “Mr.N.Ram. Many were busy clicking snaps with their friends and family so did I. I was really very happy to see many old relationships which once originated, sprouted and evolved within the four walls of my classroom rejuvenating again with the happiest of smiles although mine perished, withered , succumbed and drooped. At last after the lunch with the half filled stomach (Just because we guys went late for the lunch) and the fully filled heart we started bidding good bye and the best of the future possible from the bottom of the heart for the one last time to many of my friends present over there.
I thank the almighty for penning down such an emotional and an eventful day in my life which will ever be etched and cherished in my memories.
To all my friends who were, who is and who will always be by my side "If there is ever a day or time in the future when we're not together. There is something you must always remember. You are braver than you actually are and you are stronger than you actually believe in you, stronger than you actually seem, and smarter and cleverer than you actually think. But the most important thing is, even if we're far apart... I'll always be with you as a friend whom you can always rely on." See you all in my next post, until then it’s me signing off. Wish you all a happy reading and happiest of days ahead.
