What if…

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Living with room-mates… I describe roommates as the ones who are most switched in life. Confused? Yes you got to be if you enter a hostel where the bathroom is the only fixed place which is used accordingly and the rest…? All mess! Some say hostels are the modern day Kalapani but as Robinson Crusoe enjoyed his ‘lonely’ stay at the islands, there are a good bunch of them too…

I got a chance – a golden one – to be a part of two! Yes two… I discussed some of them in tranquility here and the rest what if…! Yes, with the advancement in thoughts and technology, there comes a certain place that becomes your all round canvas – where you chanted together, made friends – girlfriends (boyfriends too). I am talking about the place from where you have done your schooling. A place that will always be something that is seen as a cherry on your beautiful life…

Let me ask a question now. After so many years, what if you get a chance to spend some time with your old friends at the same place… the same hostel, room… the city bus… the movie halls (multiplexes are common now only)… chasing your – to be – girlfriend, the mix of innocence and madness… What if…!

Got a shocker? Or lost in thoughts… the days of enigma in uniform… uncontrolled emotions and something called simplicity – that’s gone somewhere now… The hooting in cinema halls doesn’t happen now and your best friend answers your call with the words – “What friend… has got some work…?”

“Grow up”. That’s what I have heard ever since the chord connecting my ears and the brain; if any; tugged in. But this ‘growing up’ has always deteriorated the number of friends that I have… rather had… (If I don’t count the socio-net sites – the all new social media)… when we are to bunk classes for a movie, we were a bunch, but now… for a chat I find none…

What if… you get a chance to be back to those days of fun and…

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Posted by JD @ 6 February 2010 21 comments

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Feb 7, 2010
5:36 am

#1 Karthik :

That was marvelous, JD. You took me back to my best days, man. I should thank you for that. Nostalgia is a very sweet and bitter feeling, isn't it?
All the best for BATOM!
Cheerios!

Feb 7, 2010
5:39 am

#2 Sureindran :

mate, you post brought me back to those campus days. good that it did. Good luck for the batom!

Feb 7, 2010
3:39 pm

#3 Shahid :

Man…brought back some old memories….I wish I culd live one of those days again!!

Shahid

Feb 8, 2010
9:18 am

#4 Shruti :

N.O.S.T.A.L.G.I.C!!
Really good

Feb 9, 2010
4:06 am

#5 dilontherocks :

I feel so nostalgic..Wont we do anything to go back to those days?

Feb 9, 2010
7:02 am

#6 harsha :

I spend every day thinking what if I could go back… nice post

Feb 9, 2010
8:17 am

#7 Tanmaya :

Nice.. feeling nostalgic… I guess those days are never going to come back.. but "what if" they do? then am going to press the time pause button of God's remote and never will ever wanna get out of that time span…

Feb 9, 2010
9:56 am

#8 pushpee :

Forget it..u will never get it…glad u enjoyed while it lasted..enjoyed reading though!
)

Feb 9, 2010
7:43 pm

#9 Mahesh Kalaal :

Quite nostalgic…:)

Feb 10, 2010
11:34 am

#10 Yemiledu :

A striking post!
Well written!

And ha Do write more!!!

Feb 11, 2010
5:57 am

#11 Raksha Raman :

W.O.W!! You shipped me back to my happy days for a while! How I wish for a time machine that would help us travel back in time…sigh!

Very well written! Good luck with BATOM!

Feb 22, 2010
10:52 am

#12 Jayanta Deka :

@ Karthik…
Nostalgia is nothing but some beautiful moments of life rekindled together…
Thanks for liking…
Isn't it?

Feb 22, 2010
10:53 am

#13 Jayanta Deka :

@ Sureindran…
Mate! I am here to stay.. to remind you more about your lovely days…
Cheers!

Feb 22, 2010
10:54 am

#14 Jayanta Deka :

@ Shahid…
The days may not come back.. but we need to make this day even more beautiful – funfull – so that after years these shades mean a lot to us….
Isn't it?
Cheers…

Feb 22, 2010
10:56 am

#15 Jayanta Deka :

@ Shruti…
Thanks for your comment!
Nostalgic.. really it reminds many a nice moments rekindled together…
it pains too.. isn't it?

Feb 22, 2010
10:57 am

#16 Jayanta Deka :

@ dilontherocks…
We can do something but b4 that we need to keep the present spark alive so that this day too can find a place in our nostalgia – decades from now!
Cheers…

Feb 22, 2010
10:58 am

#17 Jayanta Deka :

@ harsha…
What if we get a chance to go back!
thanks… keep thinking and keep the spark alive…

Feb 22, 2010
10:58 am

#18 Jayanta Deka :

@ Tanmaya…
Yes they might never come back again… but what if!!!!
"Pausing"… a good option..!

Aug 22, 2010
11:32 pm

#19 Oliver :

That is nice when you have fond memories of school, but what if your memories are not that good. You were teased. Maybe we will not want to go back to those years. Maybe life is much better when we are grown up, in the present.

Jun 12, 2011
4:27 am

#20 Poly :

I changed schools about 10 times growing up, so I do not have that many good memories.

Aug 7, 2011
12:22 pm

#21 Dave Lehti :

Sometimes the past seems like the best option and the time spent there seems like the best time we had but thinking hard on the feelings used to have on the past it’s propably not the best time. The best time is the time we are now because you can’t never go back in time.