I visted my college yesterday after a very long time......Was in retrospect..The first day of my college is still fresh in my mind...My school life was average, not very interesting ...I can't identify with those people who always keep saying that 'We miss our good ol school days,' coz I really dont miss my school days...After finishing with my 10th ICSE Board exams I had made a vow to myself that I wd begin my life fresh ...'A New Begining' I decided to call it, where I wd leave all the memories of my school behind...It wd be another me someone I hadnt yet discovered....I remeber filling in the centralization form and I recall that the three colleges that came on my list were Wadias, Fergusson and Mira's ...The three most reputed ones in town and boy was I excited ..I was very eager to join Fergusson...Had it all planned in my mind...What did I know then that destiny had something else in store for me.....Well I wasn't allowed to take admission in either of the three colleges for reasons that didnt make any sense to me at that time...I had a huge fight with my dad and before I knew it I had landed in Abeda Inamdar College for Girls...The name itself seemed so obnoxious....I was wondering how the hell wd I tell anybody the name of my college...It sounded so loathsome...I decided I wd just call it AI College....The first day my dad dropped me to college...hahaha... I recollect the moment I entered my class...The first words I said were ''Oh No!!!''...The class was crammed with girls..Each bench had three girls squeeezd in it......All of them were looking at my face...I wanted to run away..As it is I cdnt see any seat where I cd sit ..It was so full, almost bursting....The peon found a bench where only two girls were sitting ..He made them shift and asked me to sit in that minuscule space the girls had willingly created for me....I hated it all...'What the hell am I doing in this place?' were the only words that were revolving in and out of my brain....The girl right next to me was completely indifferent...I tried to talk to her, thought maybe if I made friends the place wd seem bearable, but she didnt seem at all interested in me....hehehe.... I told myself 'GREAT!!!' What a college and what great girls!!!.....The girl sitting next to my partner however seemed extremely eager to talk to me and I thought to myself, ' What a loser!!!'.... hahahaha...The same girl is my best friend today...Tarannum I love u...hehehe...Somehow the day finished and I realised that almost all the girls in my class came from obscure backgrounds...Me and two others only belonged to very reputed schools....My name even was different from the usual names so they all thought that I was a mixed breed in the sense that it was assumed that my parents belonged to two different religions....hahaha....and the accent that I had acquired being from a convent made most think that I am a foreigner..hehehe....Well my dad came to pick me up and he saw the expresssion on my face ...He laughed out loud...And so began my journey of 7 years with the instituiton 'Abeda Inamdar College'....And before I realized I had become an integral part of AI and it had become an integral part of me...I became me in this place...The person I had been searching for in me came out in her pristine glory in this place....Even now when I enter the gates I get the feeling of having come home...It is where I have my own identity...It is where I have my friends who are my lifeline...It is where I have had the experiences of a lifetime...It is where I have lived my life....Laughed, Cried, Played, Won, Lost and sometimes Just did nothing...I can never be able to thank the almighty enough for those beautiful seven years of my life that have made my life worth living.....All the confidence, the style, the penache', the attitude I have today is what I have developed in AI....We ruled the place.....hahaha
I wish life cd be rewinded.....How times change.....The interact club, the PD courses, the excursions and ofcourse the canteen....The fights, the secrets, the gossip...the huge dreams..We used to sit after college hours for hours together talking abt the society and how we wd contribute to it......I miss all of it..... I miss every moment... I miss being me.....One has to face a lot of things in life that one doesnt deserve and it changes the person as well as the perspective completely....Ony if time had ceased....That is why I believe in living every moment the way it is...One shdnt have any regrets of not having enjoyed the moments whether good or bad...
