PART 1: THE BEGINNING
(Breaking this post into parts, as it has become annoyingly long)
As I write this post, my dabba (laptop) tells me that it is January 6, 2010; it was only a few days back when I knew this year as 2009. In a matter of one second it changed, and yet I felt no change in it*. I started it as a very confused person, and as it ended I was more clear headed than I ever have been. As the transition was about to be made, I was hit with a sudden realization; and I felt extremely excited about it. I almost spent the next whole day telling everybody about it.
The year has been an eventful one, most of which I have spent sleeping and eating. It was for the first time in my life I had the free time to whenever do whatever and go wherever. This year can be characterized by short patches of boredom distanced by longer spurts of enthusiasm. Traditionally it used to be the other way around, and most of my enthusiastic moments used to be either my term exams or assignment submissions.
2010 started in Lucknow with my two very good friends Prakhar and Sharad. It was an auspicious start, as I spent the first two days eating, and the day after sleeping (as the stomach went out of order). I was very happy to meet my friends after a long time, and I sincerely hope that the new year brings joy to all of my friends. Unlike 2010, which has started with me carelessly eating, sleeping, drinking and farting; 2009 started with me eating, sleeping, drinking and farting. I had to care if it was the class room (eat + sleep), a group meeting (eat + drink), company presentation (fart only), mess (eat, drink & eat with an occasional fart) except for my room. That was the only place which provided me a carefree and unconditional environment.
But the biggest question I faced was not whether a place is right to eat/sleep/drink/fart, but whether to finish my plans (click to read it) first or to simultaneously work and try to finish my plans. But in order to finish them I had to be clear about them, and this needed time. I told friends, I was considering dropping out of placements; as I needed some time to control the eat/sleep/drink/fart routine and I felt working simultaneously would not do any good to my purpose. Plus I would always have thought what if I actually had taken the year off? Some thought it took courage, and some thought confidence, but in reality it just took a hangover of stupidity and ignorance.
As the college days were getting over, I had to pay off all my debts before leaving. And although I had none on the college, but I had some on the 3 Idiots team. I had agreed to audition college students for them, and received an advance payment for that. But due to my routine and an occasional Thailand trip (alas! it didn’t happen) I could not do the auditions. I cleared my debts with the team, and then I was ready to go to the one place I always wanted to….
* – As I was deep asleep at that instant (I know, PJ, but this is what inspired that line).
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