New Year Eve; A Pullback Post...

In times I feel like, I really don't belong to the family I was born and bought up. Life was plain and pleasant till I graduated my High School. Since then I've been making serious decisions on my own every now and then. That has made me the man I am today...

"CHAPTER-1"
PRESIDENCY (UG LIFE)

Yes, the first and foremost of it was joining Presidency in the year 2012. The decision which I initially regretted and finally realised to be the first best decision ever made by me. I didn't have a luxurious class room, Hi5 campus nor hot chicks wandering around. I saw gang wars, bloodshed, strikes and arrests. No college day, no cultural program's, no conference, but we enjoyed every single day of our college life just the way it was. Luckily we had teachers who didn't want us to come to college daily. Usually the college starts at 8.30 for every one, but people like me and Raja used to crawl into the campus around 12 and cooly enter the classroom without any objection. It is not that the teachers didn't care about us, it was the faith and belief that they had on us. They identified that sitting in classroom and going to old books weren't our cup of tea. And the best part is, we never disappointed out beloved teachers. Presidency gave me the courage to stand and face the problem, it thought me to look into the problem and to identify the root cause of the issue to eradicate it completely from existence. My UG friends showed me what was friendship and the true meaning of friendship through there actions. And so my UG life came to an end.


BEST MEMORIES:

• First day when I realised that I was in the wrong place
• Meeting my friends and the formation of VIRAS
• Marina beach and 1/2 Chicken rice
• 2A Bus stop and Raja's one side love story
• Eating in Mc Donald's for the first time and joining there the very next day as employes to taste the burger daily
• First trip with friends, going around the districts of Kerala
• Dissolution of VIRAS
• Raja and Renu mam (never ending love story)
• New year celebrations at marina
• Regular short and lonely trips
• Film Festival with Siddharth Sir
• Sayonara to the seniors
• Our Farewell

CHAPTER-2
LIFE LESSON'S LEARNT

I was back in my home again, the 3-4 months gap made me to realise the fact that I have been of no use to my family and to the society. The things that I was doing gave me temporary pleasure, but didn't last long. I was in a situation to decide my future yet another time. I didn't think hard, I didn't consult people, I didn't break my head. I just told my parents that I want to do Social Work and "yes" they told. Plz don't think that my parents are my biggest support. The very next sentence they told was "it's ur life, u decide in ur own and plz don't come back to us in future telling that u didn't get a job". I was confident in my decision, I joined a college after lot of drama. Once again things weren't going in favour of me. But I didn't give up, I kept enjoying every single bit my life. And gradually things were falling into its place, life turned into normalcy, we went to place that I've never been, I met and understood the painful life of people whom I've never noticed in the past 20 years, went for a camp with my classmates and enjoyed to the fullest, but there was one thing that I didn't like. I was forced to sit in the class(for attendance). And now I'm in my final semester hopping to finish it with good marks and "my future is yet to be built upon my past".

BEST MEMORIES: (Best memories under construction)

CHAPTER-3
2k16-THE YEAR OF ACTUALISATION

The year began with rehabilitating the flood victims under the guidance of Ganaraj sir and Prabakaran Sir. Yet another pongal celebration with no Jallikattu being telecasted on televisions. Exams went well and I was in the middle of nowhere when the specialization that I opted for was called off by the university. I had two options, either to shift college or to the other available specializations. I opted for the second choice and it paid off. I was given a special opportunity by Dr.Mary Angeline to go to Dharamshala(Himachal Pradesh) to do my summer internship with SFT an organization working in grassroots level for the freedom of Tibetan Refugees. Namdol and Namitha were two friends who helped me a lot in knowing about the atmosphere without even going there. Their words gave me special motivation and courage to go ahead with my internship. I set out on a lonely travel from Chennai to Delhi and from Delhi to Dharamshala as instructed by Rinzin. I was finally in the holy land of Dalai Lama. I was very excited to when I first visited SFT office, always filled with people, discussions, preparations, debates, move screening, organizing protest, and lot more. But the best part was, it made me feel like I was a part of SFT family, it hardly took me a day to get along with the other interns from various parts of India and the world. I never knew that the next 30 days were gonna be the best part of my life. I learnt, I lived and I enjoyed. Thanks to my co interns Mallika, Philip, Vishnu, Shreya, Thanya, Dolma, Josmy, Dev, Naveen, Arun, Henry, Juta and lot more... Ours was one big family in Dharamshala. Though from different backgrounds, we never had any conflicts between us. We ate, we roamed, we smoked and we drank unanimously. Leaving Dharamshala was a bit hard to me, bidding goodbye to every single Tibetan vendor whom I used to meet daily for one reason or the other. I felt overwhelmed when the old Tibetan lady gave me a plate of momo’s and Tibetan flag as a token of love. With beautiful memories in my heart and my heart tied up to the snowline of Triund, I left Himachal and started traveling to my hometown. The journey was longer than I expected. With the heavy heart I was traveling back to the Virgin Capital of India with headphones on, windows wide open, my eyes glued to the moon and with hundreds of thought running in my mind as usual. And the journey finally came to an end. Routine began, college-fiekdwork-hostel. I soon grew tired of it, I started wandering again, this time with a responsibility and specifically for social causes. Under the guidance of the Shade Man(Shree Kumar sir) I got an opportunity to engage in various plantation drives in and around Chennai. Later I started reading about waste management and came up with my own model for effective waste management. With no further hopes, I left it mid way and stared learning about the native cattle breeds of Tamil Nadu, that’s when I met Hasmica, a girl from Loyola college, we spoke, spoke and spoke. All the talks came to a similar end reflecting that we were on the same track. We planned for a grand photo exhibition to create awareness about jallikattu, but due to some unavoidable reasons, we were forced to drop the plan. But still she proceeded and came up with a new strategy of sticking posters containing photos of jallikattu behind autos. Then I got an opportunity to be a part of the international conference organized by our department for the Specially Challenged. December is always special because I get to meet people whom I haven’t taken with for ages. This year I met ma school friends, and finally I am with my family that I wasn’t born in...