SOME DREAMS!!!....OR ARE THEY??!

The sticky note on my desktop tells me it's five days to go for my exams to end!That was two days ago,a measure to help me keep going and keep me studying for trust me, I have lost all motivation and inspiration to really study like I did in my graduation years and score the sky.Not that I ever have but I have to say my graduation years comprised of purposeful studying, something that went a bit ahead of the mere classroom teaching. Healthy debates with the teacher, information of the world, how a Chinese and simultaneously an American boy my age must be living in their country with a completely different administrative system shaping them, understanding Shakespeare(though that seemed,sorry,seemeth a task at times!)and reading and understanding wonderful elegies and poems by Shelley,Keats and Milton. Working for the college magazine under a wonderful team, writing articles and selecting them for the magazine along with ma'am and my best friend who also happened to be a part of my team, hanging out in the cool cafe opposite college, parties, exams. Damn, those were the years that shaped me! I have learnt so much from those days. 

But we have had some really good times here too, haven't we? Just the other day, I was flipping through all the photos and videos of me and my friends on Facebook and man, it was such a trip down memory lane!! Everyone looks different though we have seen each other everyday for almost 12 of the 24 hours each day for the past one and a half years and more, we have danced like drunkards in the classroom, we have sat on the front bench and had register chats while pretending to be scholars with invisible broad rimmed spectacles on our eyes, we have exchanged glances everytime a particular song has played and smiled or laughed on the lyrics, tune and sound of the singer, we have had completely useless idiotic philosophical talks over matters ranging from religion to sex(both the kinds),we have randomly allotted female roommates to their male counterparts making hilarious combinations of people who haven't even properly spoken to each other, we have gone bonkers when a camera is rolling, talking nonsense into it and interfering each other(fly on the wall style!)every other place in the campus or city has some memory attached with it and everytime we pass by it,we remind ourselves of what happened there. We abuse each other with the choicest of expletives, we have signature lines and mannerisms, we imitate each other in the sorriest way possible and crack up. We suddenly remind ourselves that very soon we won't be hanging out like this and become all silent and cranky. And then we also study and manage to pass every semester, expressing shock while holding the mark sheet telling each other how we never thought we would score as much. Wow, never thought much about these moments! They strike particularly hard now that I reach the end of a journey I started with a completely blank slate. There were so many phases, so many events, people who influenced, people who mattered. I have always found this thought of this college amazing, a country full of people, some from the same city, who otherwise would never have met or thought of each other will depart knowing and befriending and loving such a variety of people!

There are these different images imprinted in my mind of how I would bump into these people at some point in my life later and how we would be successful professionals, we would make up plans to catch up at a cafe over coffee or how I would treat a friend over dinner at this expensive hotel where she and I can only imagine to be eating,and then with another friend how we would have a race on the streets of Mumbai late at night, where she would be driving her BMW 530i and I would be in my Mercedes SLK Roadster and then when it comes to directing my first film, how I would call up my friend and ask her/him to be the cinematographer or editor or scriptwriter for it and then when the film is successful, we would give interviews together to a journalist from a prominent newspaper or channel who would also happen to be one of my friend from the Journalsim batch and I would boast of how we started out in college, making crappy short films, making plans to collaborate on projects in the future and then how we made such a masterpiece together and then my Journalst friend would be interviewing us!If not for anything else,just for the sake of these amazing images, I will work as hard as possible to make them come true! Guys, let's make it happen!!