Home away from home (finally)…

This was a unexpected, and a long break from an otherwise non-stop stay at SCMHRD. We were given a precautionary leave from college (the govt ordered that, subbu wudnt allow that) to prevent the epidemic spread of the much dreaded swine flu. It was suppose to be from 11 Aug to 18th but got extended till 23. Today is 22nd and I am back a day earlier.
The break:
Well this break was important in terms of an opportunity to see off some friends who were going to US for MS (harsheel ( though the obstinate guy that he is just wudnt say much in terms of how he felt in those final moments in Mumbai) and harshit). Last time I had come to Mumbai, cudnt spend enough time with family. So this time I had decided that I am gonna spend sometime with family too. And then came meeting friends (all kinds of friends:old friends (deven and shashank), DJ friends, special friend). It was all good. But jate hue ek baat dil me jaroor ayi, that all the infy guys will not be there the next time I come to Mumbai (hardik, jigi and all), wud miss them all. Why I came early? coz subbu has lined up a whole range of tests (here we call it FCQ’s) for us, got a little scared. So came back.
When I was leaving Mumbai, hardik had come, to bid us adieu, it felt good, but strangely enough cudnt hug him for the last time, one last time before he left for mysore. But thik hain, my wishes are with you.
Feeling while coming back was as strange as I had never thought it would be. It was good. Somehow for some strange unknown reason I was feeling good about it. The feeling of seeing my roomies padmakar, farraz and other SCMHRDians (they were not all there but jitne bhi the ( sherry, bhaskar, amol, lakhit and all)) was good. The feeling of coming back home from pune for the first time was similar. It was like coming back home. I still cant believe that I felt that way. But then “Life’s illogical (it’s always been).”

I think its because I have accepted this place (situated in a small corner of pune (hinjewadi), where even getting a packet of biscuit will be difficult and only available in a small store called ‘sweety store’(our only source of daily supplies) )to be the place where I would be living for the next 2 years. That helps ….
I think its because knowing that sitting at home and meeting friends isnt going to take u anywhere and that its ‘this’ place thats going to take me to my dreams. That helps too…
I think its because “kuch pane ke liye kuch khona padta hain”.
I think its because: “now that you are here, make the most of it, enjoy it to the fullest and try and learn (a cliché` here: “when God gives u lemon, make lemonade” )”.
And after coming here among the first thing that we all did was what we do best (and enjoyablly so), bitch about the admin at SCMHRD. Its good to be back to my “karmabhoomi”.
That’s how I felt after the longest break that any SCMHRDian has ever got or will ever get.

Zindagi rocks !!!!