Few More Days!

I am just a week away from graduation. Last one and half years was one hell of a journey for all of us. We all have been through a lot. The search for internship, search for the full time job, struggle for assignments and exams. It was mentally draining. I was exhausted, so do everyone. Now that I have a full time job in hand and on top of that I am going back to India to my family, friends and my beautiful city Mumbai, I have every reason to be happy. But I am not. Why?

Lets rewind those one and half years again. After coming to Raleigh, first semester was very challenging. Away from home, studying after so many years and that too in a highly competitive environment. But wait, wasnt that the same for all of us? Yes. The fact that everyone was feeling the same made us closer. We all have become one big family. We laughed together, cooked together, celebrated birthdays and jobs together, we cried together. Whatever we did, we all were "together".

The thought of this new family not having around never crossed my mind in these one and half years, untill now. Now that the time of graduating is coming closer, I am getting more and more sad. Soon few of us will join our jobs, and others will come back to complete their course. But things wont be the same, at least for me. These people have become my habit. I want to see them everyday. I want to meet them everyday. The very engineering building which I used to hate, I started liking it. This campus, hunt library, lake Raleigh, even the Waffle House have become a part of my life now. The same feeling which I had on the airport while leaving Mumbai is there in my heart now.

I dont know whether we will be able to meet frequently in the future or not, but these beautiful memories will stay with me forever. At this time I just want the time to freeze, I want to have more fun with my friends, I want to spend some more days with them. But I am as helpless as ever again.

I will simply put my thoughts in this one sentence.

"Ek muddat ke baad milne wali thi kaid se Azadi, Par kismat to dekho, Jab Azadi mili to pinjre se pyaar ho chuka tha."